Google Play Game Services - Unnecessary Scopes

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

I have another request that is making my game to be flagged by Google Play reviewers.

I’ve been told my game is asking for the Google+ scope unnecessarily. After looking at the Android docs, the solution for this issue is: “Don’t request any additional scopes unless you absolutely need them”

In the Android docs page the solution goes as shown below.

Early versions of our samples and documentation created a GoogleApiClient as follows:

// Don’t do it this way!
GoogleApiClient gac = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this, this, this)
.addApi(Games.API)
.addScope(Plus.SCOPE_PLUS_LOGIN) // The bad part
.build();
// Don’t do it this way!

In this case, the developer is specifically requesting the plus.login scope. If you ask for plus.login, your users will get a consent dialog.

 

Solution: Ask only for the scopes you need

Remove any unneeded scopes from your GoogleApiClient construction along with any APIs you no longer use.

// This way you won’t get a consent screen
GoogleApiClient gac = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this, this, this)
.addApi(Games.API)
.build();
// This way you won’t get a consent screen 

I tried to find a way to stop adding the SCOPE_PLUS_LOGIN through Corona but I couldn’t find any parameter or method in the GPGS plugin for that. Has anyone ever experienced the same problem?

Thanks in advance!

Br,

Cleverson

#2

I’m asking our engineers to look into this.

Rob

#3

Hi Rob,

Any updates?

Sorry for pushing you about that. This is my last pending issue before re-submitting for review, so, I’m depending on Corona now.

#4

I believe an engineer has been looking into this, however I don’t see the update on the server yet. I probably can’t find out an update until at least Wednesday.

Rob

#5

Hi Rob,

I need to ask you again, sorry. Any news?

I would love to solve this by myself, but I really can’t.

Cleverson

#6

I’ve asked.

#7

I’ll be able to get an update on this next week.

Rob

#8

Hi Rob,

My game submission is about to expire and I can’t fix this. Do you have any (good) news?

Br,
Cleverson

#9

I’m trying to get a status update. I believe an engineer was working on it yesterday, but I don’t know if it’s completed or not.

Rob

#10

It seems like the cause of the issue is not in GPGS plugin sources. Can I ask you to share with us plugin list from your build.settings, may be one of the plugins you are using has deprecated methods linked to Plus.SCOPE_PLUS_LOGIN api.

Kirill

#11

Hi Kirill,

Sure, here it is:

plugins = { ["plugin.photon"] = { publisherId = "com.exitgames", supportedPlatforms = { iphone=true, android=true, ["android-kindle"]=true } }, ["plugin.openssl"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs", supportedPlatforms = { iphone=true, android=true, ["android-kindle"]=true } }, ["plugin.firebaseAnalytics"] = { publisherId = "tech.scotth", supportedPlatforms = { iphone=true, android=true, ["android-kindle"]=true } }, ["plugin.firebaseConfig"] = { publisherId = "tech.scotth", supportedPlatforms = { android=true, ["android-kindle"]=true } }, ["plugin.gpgs"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs", supportedPlatforms = { android=true } }, ["plugin.google.iap.v3"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs", supportedPlatforms = { android=true } }, ["CoronaProvider.gameNetwork.apple"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs", supportedPlatforms = { iphone=true} }, ["plugin.amazon.iap"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs", supportedPlatforms = { ["android-kindle"]=true } }, ["plugin.gamecircle"] = { publisherId = "COM\_INNOVATIVELEISURE", supportedPlatforms = { ["android-kindle"] = true }, }, ["plugin.notifications"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs" }, },

Br,

Cleverson

#12

Have you tried commenting out the two firebase plugins?

Rob

#13

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the suggestion. I removed both Firebase plugins but got the same result.

One detail that might help. The consent screen is shown twice in the first time the game runs. First it asks for the player’s Google Play Games profile. After granting this permission, a few moments later, a second consent screen is shown asking for the player’s Google Plus profile.

#14

A few more attempts:

  • Removed all ads plugins: same result

  • Removed Photon plugin: same result

  • Removed gpgs plugin: both consent screens are gone

So, it seems it’s really in the GPGS plugin. But if you are not adding the Google Plus Scope in code, then is there any other way I can be doing that?

#15

Maybe look through your Google Play Games console and go to the Google API’s and make sure you don’t have Google+ turned on somewhere.

Rob

#16

Did it. Google+ API was indeed enabled in my account, but I think it shouldn’t be the cause for the consent screen if I’m not requesting, somehow, to use it. Nevertheless, I disable it and the result is the same. I will repeat the test in the next hour just to make sure there isn’t some cache issue.

#17

Retested after 2 hours and I got the same results.

#18

Rob, Kirill

Do you have any other suggestion?

#19

Never used the gpgs plugin but I would remove the hogs plugin for now until fixed I guess

#20

Hopefully there is the way to fix the issue by using Auth.GoogleSignInApi but it will take a while for implement and test. I’ve already started working on it and will inform you here about the process.

Kirill