It seems that live streaming is limited to a maximum resolution of 432p. This is much less than competitors which allow streaming at 720p or 1080p. Also, the lack of URL overlay support for cheer/tip notifications, similar to those provided by other apps like IRLTV and Teradek Live Air Solo, prevent this from being a viable alternative for serious IRL streamers.

These features would help make live streaming more popular using the Twitch app and help enable a one-device solution:

• Manual selection of stream resolution (480p, 720p, 1080p)


• Either URL Overlay support or another notification avenue to notify the streamer of new cheers/tips/subscribers/follows


• Ability to change title/game in stream


• Ability to mod chat while streaming


• MPTCP support (iOS 11) to allow bonding of cellular and WiFi signals for increased stream throughput

Until the most recent update to the Android app, notifications were in the following format:

Title: <Streamer> is streaming <Category>!
Text: <Streamer's 'Go Live Notification' message>

This was mostly fine, though with longer usernames or certain categories, it could be unclear which game was being played - but depending on what the streamer wrote for their Go Live Notification (GLN), it could be clarified just by pulling the notification down and reading the text section.

But now with the latest version of the app, the notification comes in two flavours, seemingly at random. Either:

Title: <Streamer> is live: <GLN>
Text: Streaming <Category>

or

Title:
Text: <Streamer> is live: <GLN>

So half the time you can't see more than the first few words of the GLN (not even by pulling the notification down), and the other half has no notification title and doesn't display the category at all! This makes them far less informative than before, while also using space less effectively, which is why it should be changed back.

If the one problem with the old format (category being cut off) was so bad that it needed altering, then swapping it with the GLN only makes the same issue worse. A far better solution would be to move the category to the text section, but keep the GLN there too, making it look something like this:

Title: <Streamer> is live!
Text: (<Category>) <GLN>

The mobile app really sucks at the moment if I’m being honest but I fell like the problems can be fixed. One thing is the chat and stream and how all that work. I don’t know if this is just me but the chat it about 10 seconds ahead of the stream for some reason. I always see chat answers questions the streamer asked like 10 seconds before they asked them and it makes chat pretty useless in mobile. Another thing that’s bad on mobile is the twitch predictions. I’m having a lot of fun betting on different things in channels I watch but on mobile you legit can’t bet high amounts. You can get to like 1k in a minute because on mobile you have to spam click add 10. Please just and the custom amounts on mobile too just like you have it on pc.

When watching vods or clips on the horizontal mobile player, tapping to bring up controls makes the follow, notification, and sub buttons pop up. WHY??

When you're watching live it's not a huge deal because you don't need to use the seek bar. But watching a vod or clip, it's insanely annoying having those buttons take up a third of the screen every time you want to go back a few seconds. If I'm watching a vod from a channel I've been subbed to for a year, why I would want the option to unsub and unfollow them popping up every time I want to go to a different part of the vod?

I don't think anyone would miss it if you made it so that group just never showed up in the horizontal viewer. It'd make watching vods a lot nicer. I would love it if this was changed.

Also, related to that, the areas you can tap to activate the skip back and skip forward buttons are really small. If I want to go back more than ten seconds, 70% of the time I will end up opening or closing chat. The fact that the channel info bar moves everything up a half inch doesn't help. The detection areas for those being bigger, or the chat being toggled with a horizontal swipe could be helpful.