Android GOOGLE gamecenter support

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• Scouser Guru

  May 2013

  This is very welcome news. Maybe this is a plugin that @ar2rsawseen can write when Google makes the API public.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2013

  One small problem, I'd need to get the device, that can have Android version, which would support Game Center. Same thing goes to other platforms, like Kindle (or else I would already have tried adding Amazon in-apps )
  
  I assume that it would only be available to the latest Android versions right? older 2.x and 3.x would probably be left out.

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• keszegh Member

  May 2013

  about amazon iap, amazon app store works on any android device, doesn't it?

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  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• Scouser Guru

  May 2013

  @ar2rsawseen: We won't know about availability until GoogleIO but I would be surprised if they didn't support all versions that Google Billing supports but we will have to wait.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2013

  It's going to be a system apk update. It should work on virtually any version of Android from what I've been able to find out.
  

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• Scouser Guru

  May 2013

  That's welcome news. Now if the functionality can be implemented to match the IOS Gamekit plugin then we're onto a winner I think

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  May 2013

  I think it's going to be much better - cloud saves, etc...

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• pykaso Member

  May 2013

  Live from Google IO: It's going to be available to all android versions devices =D>

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• Scouser Guru

  May 2013

  I got an email from OpenKit to tell me how good their system is compared to both GameCenter and Google Play Services

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• pykaso Member

  May 2013

  me too

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• albert988 Member

  May 2013

  @Scouser
  Did OpenKit work well? After trying to submit an sample to Android Game Services for a whole day, I gave up. It's not working so well.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2013 edited May 2013

  Is Google Play Services already available? any docs?

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• phongtt Guru

  May 2013

  http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/games.html

  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2013

  ) Google Play Game Services is also available to IOS

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• phongtt Guru

  May 2013

  Good catch )
  
  https://developers.google.com/games/services/

  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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• Scouser Guru

  May 2013

  @albert988: I Never actually got to use it yet.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2013

  Wooho, finally made it to work in Gideros, well at least the basics:
  signin, signout, reportScore, reportAchievement, showLeaderboard, showAchievements, etc
  
  Need a couple more stuff to at least to match a gamekit
  
  Couple of downsides, that app ID seems can be only provided through string constant and AndroidManifest, which means more manual modifications to exported project.
  
  Another pain in the ass, is that only exported and signed application works with it, so you can't really debug it (unless you use a androiddebugkey fingerprint on your Oauth client, which and each oauth client seems can have only one fingerprint). Well in other words, it's complicated

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  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• soy_ismael Member

  May 2013

  @Ar2rsawseen Thank you for your work. Always fast and very useful for all

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• albert988 Member

  May 2013

  wonderful @ar2rsawseen
  can't wait to see your sample. Is it on appcodingeasy?

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  May 2013

  woohoo
  
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2013 edited May 2013

  Actually I could not sleep much this night, and almost wrapped all multiplayer functionality. Only the most complicated parts are remaining, like passing multidimensional data tables from Java to lua through events.
  
  Then I would probably have to create some kind of test app to see if created abstraction layer would be suitable for most cases for multiplayer.
  
  This is not yet released, will try to finish as soon as I'll could, but right now (although it's 17:30 at my time) I need some sleep

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• pedroluis5 Member

  May 2013

  @ar2rsawseen we wanna this ...you need help?

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• Emanuel Member

  May 2013

  @ar2rsawseen If you need help we are there ...

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2013

  Well the huge pain is to test it, because of the reasons I described above.
  
  I'll try to complete the basic tests tomorrow and I can try to release it as beta, so you guys could help and play with it, while testing it with me

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  May 2013

  count me in also for testing
  
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  May 2013 edited May 2013

  Ok then, this is what I have for now, thats not all yet, some things still have to be done, but well you can start playing and experimenting with it
  
  https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/GiderosGooglePlay
  
  There are also two example projects, one for leaderboard/achievements, other for multiplayer (at least some sort of a start for multiplayer, because it has a long way still to go )

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  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• fxone Member

  May 2013

  @ar2rsawseen wow in six days you've done it! thank you

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• albert988 Member

  May 2013

  @ar2rsawseen, you are awsome
  
  great job~

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  Games: Android

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  June 2013

  Finally added retrieving scores and achievements.
  So basically everything for achievements and leaderboards should be covered.
  
  Still can't test multiplayer, cause I have only one android device right now (at least only one compatible), but'll let you know when things will change.
  
  Till then if anyone have tried anything, any feedback is welcomed.
  
  Which will be the first Gideros app with integrated Google Play Services?

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• larf Member

  June 2013 edited June 2013

  Awesome work @ar2rsawseen on getting this working so quick!
  
  Are you adding new functions to the API soon?
  
  I'm looking for a way to check if the device has google play services available. Similar to the gamekit:isAvailable() function for game center.

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