Twitch's Video Game Platform Android App

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers where more than 45 million gamers gather every month to watch and interact around the games they love. We are leading a revolution in video game culture, turning gameplay into an immersive entertainment media experience. Watch your favorite streams over both 3G/4G and WiFi networks, and switch between different quality levels to optimize channels based on your connection.

TechCrunch recently shared a video tour through Twitch’s “Otherworldly”  headquarters in San Francisco. The "Pac Man" and "Minecraft" like games inspired office also had an armor model which was worn by the Brotherhood of Steel from "Fallout 3." The Twitch Video Wall featured all nine screens of its gaming video prominently placed near the entryway of their office. An elusive room called Twitch’s Secret Swag Room was also shown as locked and unavailable. CEO, Emmett Shear stated to TC while on the tour, “ Swag is our most secret possession.”

The Android app is available for users with version 4.0 and higher. The company posted on its blog that is has been recently experimenting with new ways to discover Counter Strike: Global Offensive broadcasters. “We’ve wanted to try using game metadata – organized information that describes what’s happening inside of a broadcast – to augment the standard Twitch experience for some time.” “With the cooperation and help of Valve, we’re excited to bring you the first version of an advanced directory, one which we hope will make it easier to find interesting content.”

Twitch’s architecture is API-driven. Their platforms – iOS, Android, Xbox – use the same core APIs to fetch data necessary to drive our experiences. While it’s tempting to treat the website differently, its website consumes the same APIs that our other platforms do. The majority of the frontend of our website is written in a JavaScript framework called Ember, which knows which APIs to call to get the data needed to render a given page.

Twitch's Video Game Platform Android App is available for download at Google Play.