{"id":307122,"date":"2019-05-22T08:09:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=307122"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:10:22","slug":"valve-launches-steam-chat-app-for-android-and-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/307122-valve-launches-steam-chat-app-for-android-and-ios.html","title":{"rendered":"Valve launches Steam Chat app for Android and iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/593110\/announcements\/detail\/1621770561065348220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>released<\/strong><\/a> a dedicated Steam Chat mobile application for Android and iOS.<\/p>\n<p>The company launched its Steam Chat application for desktop users last year, and the mobile version of this application includes similar features.<\/p>\n<p>Steam Chat for Android and iOS includes the following functionality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Friends List<\/strong> &#8211; See who\u2019s in game or online at a glance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rich Chat<\/strong> &#8211; Support for higher fidelity links, videos, tweets, GIFs, Giphy, Steam emoticons, and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Invite Links<\/strong> &#8211; Add new friends on Steam with a link. Generate an invite link you can text or email.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customizable Notifications<\/strong> &#8211; You can customize your notifications per friend, group chat, and chat channel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Group Chats<\/strong> &#8211; Groups make it easier to do things like stay in touch with your communities and organize games with your friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Valve said that it is already working on new features for the Steam Chat app, including voice chat implementation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Steam Chat moving to its own dedicated app, the original Steam Mobile app will see significant upgrades focused on account security,&#8221; the company added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our plans include better Steam Guard options to help securely log into your Steam account, such as QR codes and one-touch login, and improved app navigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steam Chat is now available to download from the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/steam-chat\/id1434890245?t=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Apple App Store<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/linkfilter\/?url=https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.valvesoftware.android.steam.friendsui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Google Play Store<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/306380-steam-link-app-launched-for-ios-and-apple-tv.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Steam Link app launched for iOS and Apple TV<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has released a dedicated Steam Chat mobile application for Android and iOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":307124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[33314,59136,18208],"class_list":["post-307122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-software","tag-mobile-app","tag-steam-chat","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}