With xCloud already up and running and with the launch of the new Microsoft consoles just around the corner, the company launched a practically new Xbox application for Android with which, among other things, you can play your Xbox games directly from an Android phone.
Xbox and local streaming game
When Microsoft announced its plans regarding the game via streaming we knew that there would be two ways to enjoy it. One through Microsoft's own servers and the other using your own Xbox One as a server.
De xCloud, the option that connects directly to Microsoft servers, needless to say much more. The service works really well and all it requires is an internet connection that is fast enough and with the lowest possible ping to get the best experience. Although you should know that it has a small limitation, you can only play the titles within Xbox Game Pass. Something that seeing how its catalog is progressing does not seem like it will be a big problem.
However of the second option yes. Because now any user with an Android device can enjoy the local streaming. And this is interesting because there is no greater limitation than your own catalog of games. So any title you have you can play through your phone or tablet if you decide to go to bed earlier or for some other reason you can't do it on your usual television.
An option that if you have a local network with good performance, something simple today, allows a quite satisfactory experience. And best of all, if you resort to using a VPN, you can connect from anywhere as if you were connecting to the same home network. Something that is essential to use this function, that the console and mobile device are using the same network.
So, just for this option it is already worth downloading the new Xbox Beta application for Android devices. Although if you have used it before you will notice that it also changed at the design level to adapt to the changes that will come with the new generation consoles, but there is more.
More than streaming game
The new Xbox also not only adds as a novelty the function that allows you to connect to your Xbox One to do local streaming and play all your games from an Android device. It has also added this redesign and a series of improvements in everything related to its use as a system to chat by voice and text with our friends, also to receive and manage notifications about invitations to games and an additional series of functions such as the one related with the new share button on xbox controller. Without forgetting that it will also allow you to configure the new consoles while they are applying or downloading new updates.
And now, surely you are wondering what happens with the version for iPhone and iPad. Well, Microsoft is working on it, but you already know that Apple is not very keen on providing applications that allow streaming games. Still, if you respect your own recent changes to your rules in the App Store, it shouldn't take long. What's more, there would have to be a new Xbox app for iPhone and iPad to equate the experience between both platforms. For now if you have an Xbox and accounts with iOS devices, you must be patient to take advantage of the game in local streaming and other news, or use an Android device.