For some reason this thread was closed a while ago, but thanks to cg it's been reopened and updated (as of 30.08.2012).

Hi SG Community,

This is the official thread of the SteamGifts Android app created and maintained by myself.

Click here to go to the SteamGifts app page on Google Play.

Three things I would like to point out beforehand:

  • Your Steam account details will be entered ONLY on the official Steam page. The app will use your built-in browser to take you to the Steam page where you will enter your Steam account details and return you to the app after authorization.

  • On your first time, SteamGuard will require you to enter the code sent to your email. If the SteamGuard dialog is not visible at first, just scroll down until you see it and enter the received code.

  • The options menu is your best friend. Use the options button on your phone to unlock the most out of the app's functionalities while navigating throughout the pages.

Thank you and feel free to also leave feedback, criticism or any other comments.

12 years ago*

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I only wish I could comment on giveaways and follow my created via notifications. Oh and maybe sort excluded alphabetically.

11 years ago
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links for pics are dead

11 years ago
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I am using the android steamgifts app and i am pretty satisfied with it. But i noticed while searching for a game with dots (".") in the name, the app crashes right away. Since quite some games uses special characters, this should be fixed. The app also crashes with various other chars like commata (","), chars like ? or # are ignored as it seems...

11 years ago
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As MattyMatt stated, it would be awesome if the Excluded list could be sorted alphabetically. Currently it's a pain to try and find the things I want to remove from the list. - I still say SG should add the game excluding into the site itself.

11 years ago
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This feature is now integrated in the newest update, thanks for the suggestion!

11 years ago
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Will there be an Windows phone 8 version?

11 years ago
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i guess this is not being updated / closed ? I tried this on my phone today and when i click on "Sign-in through steam" i just get a white screen.

11 years ago
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I've been loving this app multiple times a day for the last 3 or 4 months. I reviewed it on the store not long ago along with a few suggestions, but I'm not sure where they would be noticed best so I figured I would repost parts of it here:

Suggestions for improvement:

  • Exclusion and Entered list sorted by name and time left respectively (please!);
  • Bug: Removing a title from the exclusion list makes others also show up, making you have to exclude again and causes duplicate entries (the last time I did this I removed some games from my exclusion list, completely restarted my phone and it seemed to work properly, but just going back to the Current Giveaways list immediately causes a whole slew (if not all, I'm not entirely sure) of excluded games to show up again;
  • Configurable auto-refresh option (!! - At least once every 20-30 minutes to catch the 1hr giveaways);
  • Compact mode for less scrolling (I sometimes spend a good 5 minutes just trying to get to the bottom of the list);
  • Status bar notifications (such as new giveaways with games on your wishlist, wins, finished created giveaway, maxed out points);
  • Highlight wishlist items;
  • Ability to comment & enter giveaway at same time;
  • Optimize poll rate (doable? I swap between a 5MB wifi or 4G connection and it will sometimes take a good 15-45 seconds to load one page)

Thank you for the app. It has been extremely helpful and I recommend it to everyone I come across using SG. Excellent work!

11 years ago
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That's a great summary of potential features, thanks. I read the reviews and take suggestions under consideration from there as well, so don't worry about that. I will look into these a bit more but also have a few questions/comments:

  • Does that bug still happen? And do you have any way that I can reproduce it? Because I just tried and it works fine.
  • What do you mean by auto-refresh? I'm assuming you use the app periodically to check the new giveaways, so when would the autorefresh come into use?
  • Status bar notifications is a great idea but would be a huuuge amount of work
  • Compact mode sounds interesting, but I don't see the rows getting smaller than they already are...
  • Wishlist has been on my TODO list for a while and will probably be in the next update (whenever it happens)
11 years ago
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So, no options menu now. No refresh button. No ads but white rectangle. Last update is a total mess.

11 years ago
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That's very weird because I can't reproduce the problem. Does this still happen?

11 years ago
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Yes, it's still broken.

Nexus 7 (first version), Android 4.3, no adblockers.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0qwwuvaqcpgik8/Screenshot_2013-11-20-05-10-01.png

11 years ago
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still totally broken on all levels

no refresh, no options (nexus 7 and 10)

long tap leads to giveaway instead of pop-up menu (nexus 5, 7 and 10)


upd: oh, just great. now i get "no giveaways found matching your criteria" message all the time

10 years ago
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thanks for good work

11 years ago
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Great app. I did not know there was a thread for it.

I almost didn't update because of the ads (but thanks for being up front about the feature being added on Google Play, less honest devs just slip them in) but the faster giveaway entering and sorting the exclusion list way more than make up for it. Will you consider an ad-free version, though? I use AdAway so all I see is a white box, but I don't use it to cheat devs, I do it because I pay too much for my device and its service to deal with ads. I'm willing to pay a reasonable fee to get rid of them if the app is useful, and yours is.

Also, would you consider modernizing the menu? Current Android spec has it sliding out from the left. The way it is now is Gingerbread spec. I really don't mind, it just looks old. The rest of the app looks good.

11 years ago
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stupid ads everywhere <.<

11 years ago
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why did u add ads to it ? it ruins the app ffs

11 years ago
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Seriously, publish a copy without adds for I dunno, 1$, I'd buy it ._.

11 years ago
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Yeah. Thankfully I got work about the ads before updating, so I'll stay on this version unless I can get an ad-free one.

11 years ago
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If you want to have the ad in there, it would be much better to have it in the bar that's already there. You have a massive bar at the top with a tiny SG logo, might as well put the ad in there instead of it taking up more space.

11 years ago
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Any new update incoming? Still can't use the menu on my Nexus 10 with the latest version. So that and the ad really break the current release :(

11 years ago
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Can someone upload old .apk-file? Current version still totally broken because of ads. Bottom menu not shown on nexus 7 and 10 and author not fixing it for months

11 years ago
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If I had the time/willingness, I'd look into developing my own app, but I'd need access to SG's API docs...

10 years ago
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well...nice app..thanks dude...

10 years ago
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weird but after the last update its not entering the giveaways. it always says that i couldnt enter the giveaway because of bla bla bla. It takes ages to load the new pages, or giveaway pages. I tried to reinstall etc. but didnt help.

10 years ago
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10 years ago
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I used it for a month, even won a giveaway. The point is perseverance and patience :P, if you don't have'em you'll fail using this app miserably because it is supaslow... but so is this site and here we are x)

10 years ago
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I can't even log in these days.

10 years ago
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Hi. Your app is totally awesome, but these days I cannot log in via Steam with your app. Any solutions for this?

10 years ago
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This app makes you re-log into your steam account from time to time. Sometimes it asks for your account, or sometimes it just has the log in button to continue. Overall, this app is great when I need to spend some points when I am away from home. If some people don't know about this function, you can hold and press one of the giveaways for a menu to use your points to enter.

10 years ago
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Shouldn't this thread be considered "necroing" at this point?

10 years ago
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Closed 10 years ago by thealchemist.