Corona Cloud And Game Center

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#1

I hope this is a good place to put this message.

I want to (and will) use Corona Cloud for everything Android.

I also want to use Corona Cloud for everything iOS, but it seems that iOS users are sort of expecting Game Center achievments and leaderboards.  I also believe (although I am not 100% sure) that Apple wants GC integration instead of a third party’s solution.

How can this be accomplished?  For iOS, can I use GC achievements and leaderboards, and use CC for other cloud services like news and game challenges?  Is it possible to update achievements/leaderboards on both GC and CC at the same time?

I am just wondering what is possible and what is preferred, and the easiest way to manage this.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Yes, this is quite achievable.  

As of version 1.0, all of the cloud actions happen through a REST based API.  We provide an external .lua file that you include in your project and require in similar to this:

[lua]

   cloudController = require(“corona-cloud-core.lua”)

[/lua]

All save/write operations use this library to do.  This would let you also include gameNetwork for Apple’s GameCenter and they would not conflict.   Where you would run into a possible issue is that we use gameNetwork.* to expose our User Interface for managing logins, showing leaderboards and achievements etc.  If you want to use those features, it would not co-exist with GameCenter.   You would have to use API calls from the cloudController to show your own leaderboards, etc.

See the Cloud guide:  http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/cloud/leaderachieve/index.html

for examples of how to do this. 

#3

Yes, this is quite achievable.  

As of version 1.0, all of the cloud actions happen through a REST based API.  We provide an external .lua file that you include in your project and require in similar to this:

[lua]

   cloudController = require(“corona-cloud-core.lua”)

[/lua]

All save/write operations use this library to do.  This would let you also include gameNetwork for Apple’s GameCenter and they would not conflict.   Where you would run into a possible issue is that we use gameNetwork.* to expose our User Interface for managing logins, showing leaderboards and achievements etc.  If you want to use those features, it would not co-exist with GameCenter.   You would have to use API calls from the cloudController to show your own leaderboards, etc.

See the Cloud guide:  http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/cloud/leaderachieve/index.html

for examples of how to do this.