Android GOOGLE gamecenter support

saltytaco1234

SPOILER IF YOU ARE WAITING TO SEE WHATS NEW WITH ANDROID AT GOOGLE IO



Looks like it's true that at Google I/O Google will be releasing "Play Games" (gamecenter) I'm just wondering do you think Gideros will be supporting this? http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/11/google-play-games-leaks-out-in-all-its-glory-ahead-of-google-io-hello-cloud-game-saves-apk-teardown/

Scouser

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

ar2rsawseen

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.

keszegh

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

Scouser

@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.

SinisterSoft

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.

Scouser

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

SinisterSoft

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

pykaso

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

Scouser

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

pykaso

me too

albert988

@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.

ar2rsawseen

Is Google Play Services already available? any docs?

phongtt

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

ar2rsawseen

) Google Play Game Services is also available to IOS

phongtt

Good catch )

https://developers.google.com/games/services/

Scouser

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

ar2rsawseen

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

soy_ismael

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

albert988

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

hgvyas123

woohoo

ar2rsawseen

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

pedroluis5

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

Emanuel

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

ar2rsawseen

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

hgvyas123

count me in also for testing

ar2rsawseen

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 )

fxone

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

albert988

@ar2rsawseen, you are awsome

great job~

ar2rsawseen

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?

larf

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.