Re: Sharing Sadia within family

D4zedG4mer — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:50:42 GMT

So - I've also been wanting this for some time. I saw something recently which appears to hint that this is v. close to being a reality.

On 9to5google.com, this article was posted about a week ago (on 25th Jun 2020). This site is basically some techies which take a look at android packages (.apk files) which are pushed to the play store, "decompile" the packages and try and figure out what the code is doing. In this case it's the Stadia APK they're talking about.

According to the 2nd point in their article which is entitled "Family sharing", various text prompts have been set up which reference family sharing. This is a very strong indicator that this feature will be made available soon.

Points to note:

This appears very plausible - I don't believe you don't even have to "decompile" these APK files to see "static text" and/or ASCII fields, I think it's just a case on "unpacking" to be able to see this, so it's not that difficult to do.
Google development practices are known to include "dark releases" or "feature toggles" - both of which mean that features become part of the app way before the end user sees them, but they're just not switched (or "toggled") on yet and can remain this way for some time while the features are being completed and/or tested.
Just because the features are in the APK, it could still be that they aren't going to be turned on for a while to come yet and in some cases they may never be turned on. All this means is that they've recently invested some time/effort in this feature and so their currently intentions are likely to be to switch on this feature.

A positive affirmation of this from the Stadia team would be a nice next step, though. Any chance of this soon, Stadia devs?

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Re: Sharing Sadia within family