Android 4.3, JellyBean, iOS 7 PS4 App Connects Users to PlayStation 4 at All Times

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Friday, October 04, 2013

Sony detailed its upcoming PS4 app for Android 4.3, JellyBean and iOS 7 in a recent blog post.

It will basically connect smartphone users to the PS4 ecosystem at all times. Sony also provided readers with some high-quality screenshots of the app and better explained what it will help PS4 players do on their handsets.

"It's an application that anyone can download for free on iOS and Android devices," he explained. "There are a variety of things you can do with it. You can connect to your PlayStation profile, and send messages-- even voice messages-- to friends between your smartphone and PS4," said President of Sony Worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida in the blog.

"A friend on PS4 can also send out an invitation for a multiplayer game, which you can then check on the App, and you can also purchase PS4 games from PlayStation Store," he continued. "Your game will immediately start downloading while you're away."

Users will also be able to compare trophies, view friends activity which includes recorded or live-streamed gameplay on PS4 and access all the latest PlayStation Blog news.

Developers could now build a second screen experience into their games that can be accessed with the app.

"The PlayStation App will also offer 'second screen' gameplay features on enabled titles. For example, during the TGS presentation Yoshida-san showed how the app interacts with The PlayRoom- he drew a picture of Knack on his smartphone's touch screen and then pushed it into the PS4 game on his TV, allowing the game's bot characters to play with the item he'd created," continued Sony.

"But smaller developers can use PlayStation App to connect to PS4 and load an application, like drawing software for example, so that you don't have to download and install a specific app on your smartphone. Its open to all PS4 developers to use," added Yoshida.