Gideros 2018.3 - Facebook Instant Games

mehmetuysal

I am successfully test one of my game on facebook instant games, it used to be working well couple of weeks ago now it is scrollable and I am able to zoom in an out but. How can i disable scrolling and zooming ?

hgy29

iOS right ? This is due to a bug in iOS 11.3 which was released a few weeks ago.

I fixed it in my own gideros repo and it will be included in next release: https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/60a124d2e7e3e72b4a5b63ac3583d5801816cfc1#diff-a0cf4f94dff3ddb8873f57317b0439ac

mehmetuysal

@hgy29 thanks a lot. I am looking forward to next release.

hgy29

2018.3.3 is now released. I didn't took the time to test it beyond opening it and checking the few things it is supposed to fix, but I am confident it should be ok.

vitalitymobile

@hgy29 Would you please update the document to http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/fbinstant

By the way, After pull GitHub code, I go to doc/reference folder but can not find the fbinstant folder? I can read it offline by open HTML but I cannot find it.
Thank so much!

SinisterSoft

What is wrong with the fbinstant document ?

SinisterSoft

the xml for the document in github is in docsrc

vitalitymobile

@SinisterSoft I just want to read the latest document on Github
For example, content here http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/fbinstant/fbcore/getLeaderboardAsync
is out of date compared to some push you already commit to Github
(setScoreScoreAsync ....)

And from "the xml for the document in github is in docsrc" how can I read it or generate to HTML format?

Thank so much!

hgy29

@vitalitymobile, the file you are looking for is https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/docsrc/fb_core.xml

You can use a plain text editor to make changes on it. The file is then used to update a database on gideros server, which in turn is used to generate html docs.

MobAmuse

Late to the party but just starting to get really interested in FB Instants. I am hearing from quite a few other non-gideros instant developers there is not much money in it currently but hey ho there you go.

Apollo14

@hgy29 why did you decide to remove box2d?
https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/f6a03df9520f365bfce5d041834e6e25331c51e5

hgy29

Because it’s functionnality is given by liquidfun plugin, which is a more advanced/up to date version of box2d. Removing box2d from core allows to build lighter binaries in case one don’t need physics, and I ensured that all was needed to retain compatibility was to include liquidfun plugin in the user’s project

MobAmuse

What is the exact procedure for exporting a FB Instant Game say using Gideros 3DCube demo as an example/test?

I have exported Gideros BirdAnim and 3DCube as FB Instant's and 7zip'ped the test archives (around 2Mb) but they only load to max 97% as an instant game when upload to Facebook to test.

I have tried several combo's of tick boxes and compression options on export but they all do the same thing i.e. don't ever fully load on FB.

Using latest Gideros for the record.

totebo

On the offchance you missed it, you also need to let the Facebook Instant API know your game is ready for action by calling:

FBInstant.startGameAsync(callback)

MobAmuse

Yes thank you I see there is a little more to it after SinisterSoft came to the rescue via a PM. I think I missed all that part while I was away doing some other non gideros stuff. Ooops.

Thanks again, I will have a bash at it all later and see where that leads me.

MobAmuse

OK I have already come on a long way since my last post but now I have tested everything, I want to add an interstitial ad.

I see there is the call... fbLoadInterstitial() ...but how do I pass the "AD_PLACEMENT_ID" to it that I just created in the FB monetization manager for the actual interstitial ad?

i.e. as stated at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/audience-network/android-interstitial

Also I since noticed there are ad networks for both Android and iOS so I presume I'll just stick with Android for starters to get going with instants and ads.

hgy29

@MobAmuse, if you are talking about an intstant game, then forget about iOS or Android, the correct platform is 'Instant game' in audience network.

Then you can display it with FBInstant ads API:http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/fbinstant/fbcore/getInterstitialAdAsync

MobAmuse

Ah OK thank you.

MobAmuse

OK I now since set that up correctly as 'Instant game' in audience network and call...

FBInstant.getInterstitialAdAsync("ad_ID_string", function(result,error)
print("getInterstitialAdAsync result:",result)
end)

...when game over happens to display an ad. Nothing crashes, but I don't actually see an ad when running on mobile fb messenger.

The app is currently in development mode but is set to public and the ad has not been sent for review and neither has the app. Would that cause the above or perhaps there is little or no ad fill rate?

Noob.

MobAmuse

...even tho it states 'Successful ad delivery' in the instant game audience network panel.

MobAmuse

I've since stuck both the ad and the game into review as can't find anything wrong with it.

MobAmuse

I can only therefore assume I have to wait for approval of advertising before and ad is shown

SinisterSoft

You need to test in the messenger app on Android - on the fb app I don't think ads work - neither on web - only within the messenger app.

(it's not us, it's fb who haven't got that bit working yet)