Over the last couple months, we at StadiaDosage have been doing our own Stadia apk findings for the Stadia Android app to discover potential upcoming features in the app.
In an attempt to be responsible human beings, we’d like to note that everything on this list should be taken with a grain of salt as it is subject to a lot of speculation/interpretation and may reflect behind the scenes features or features that never end up getting released. In addition, this list certainly does not represent everything Google is working on for the app. We don’t have access to Google’s private repositories where most development is surely taking place.
Because of the use of flutter/dart these apk breakdowns are a little more complicated than most (involving lots of shell commands and string processing). So, you should consider these particularly imprecise.
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With all those caveats said, here we go!
Stadia apk 4.3.4 (Feb. 15, 2022)
New Strings:
- useUpdatedTouchGamepad
- useUpdatedTouchGamepadFlag
Suggests perhaps updated touch gamepad controls coming that can be enabled from a setting.
Also possibly related to touch controls (and possibly not)
- hideDisabledControls
New strings around compatibility testing that may be related to controls as well:
- compatibilityTester
- CacheCompatibilityTester
Other new strings that we don’t read a lot into:
- promotionCampaignId
We already see other promotion/redemption “campaign” strings
- registerLeader
- unregisterLeader
In the app strings, “leader” typically refers to party leader
- runable to start the play test!
- listenForPlayabilityResults
We already see other “playability”/”play test” strings.
Other changes
There are also lots of general tweaks to the controller (touch and other) instruction text. This seems to be the focus of this release.
