Is there an ETA for Google Play Game Services integration?

AlanPlantPot · May 30, 2013, 10:42am

A few weeks ago when Google announced their new game service, there was a blog post saying it would be coming soon:

http://coronalabs.com/blog/2013/05/15/corona-support-for-google-play-game-services/

I realise that wasn’t particularly long ago, but I wondered if we have an ETA for integrating this into Corona? The blog post mentioned that Ansca had early access so I’m hoping it won’t be too far away.

laptop88 · June 4, 2013, 12:52pm

Any news on this?

schizoid2k · June 4, 2013, 1:24pm

I’m also looking for an update!

bjsorrentino · June 4, 2013, 4:46pm

Hi all,

This is being worked on at the moment, in the form of a plugin. I don’t have a specific ETA, but we certainly haven’t forgotten this.

Brent

dchan · June 4, 2013, 6:17pm

Hi everyone,

You can find which plugins are available here: http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/plugin/index.html

Google Play game services is under the Gaming section.

http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/plugin/gameNetwork-google/index.html

We have something for Android right now and we’re going to keep adding to and also expand it to iOS as well.

AlanPlantPot · June 5, 2013, 6:04pm

I’m trying to set this up at the moment, and I’m a bit unsure about something.

I’ve gone into my app, activated game services and set up a leader board and some achievements. I then completed the “linked apps” section and ultimately got a client ID which looked like this:

123456789.apps.googleusercontent.com

(obviously the number wasn’t 123456789)

It says I need to include this in my app, but I’m not sure where to include this in Corona.

Does this section in my build.settings cover it?

googlePlayGamesAppId = "123456789"

dchan · June 5, 2013, 6:12pm

That number isn’t needed. The number you want is actually right at the top next to the name of your game. For example it would be the number next to mathmania(989030404439) in this picture: http://i.imgur.com/Z7nuUPg.png.

AlanPlantPot · June 5, 2013, 6:30pm

In my case they were exactly the same anyway, so I already had the number from the top of the screen.

Regardless of where the number comes from, the Google Play documentation says that you need to generate a OAuth 2.0 client ID:

https://developers.google.com/games/services/console/enabling#d_gather_credentials_for_authentication_and_authorization

So I’ve done that, pasted in the “SHA-1 fingerprint” generated by keytool, and although my gameNetwork.init() function seems to callback successfully, if I try to do…

gameNetwork.show( "achievements" )&nbsp;

…nothing happens.

Edit: and I’m testing it using a non-developer test account.

dchan · June 5, 2013, 6:33pm

I just saw that you are a starter, this feature is currently pro only.

AlanPlantPot · June 5, 2013, 6:45pm

The app was actually built by a pro-subscriber rather than my account. It’s quicker for me to write on the forum while they carry on trying to fix it, rather than them stopping work while I twiddle my thumbs

dchan · June 5, 2013, 6:50pm

Did you do

gameNetwork.request( "login", { userInitiated=true, listener=requestCallback })

yet? Without signing in you can not show achievements.

AlanPlantPot · June 5, 2013, 7:01pm

Ah no, I didn’t see that in the request page when I first looked. We’ll give that a try and hopefully that will fix it.

AlanPlantPot · June 7, 2013, 12:44pm

Just an update that you were right about the login request, that fixed the problem.

We’ve noticed that if we include the plugin in our build.settings file, then we get the following error when we try to build for iOS:

A device build error occurred on the server.

BuildID: 51b1d2d8d0191

Error: Get plugin failed.

Publisher: com.coronalabs

Plugin: CoronaProvider.gameNetwork.google

If we move the “CoronaProvider.gameNetwork.google” plugin table into the android table, then google play doesn’t work at all on android.

Is there some way to put it into the build.settings file that will allow us to make both builds, or do we have to keep commenting out the plugin when building for iOS and replacing it when building for Android?

WolfBeardedLion · June 11, 2013, 3:49am

**FIXED - publisherId must equal “com.coronalabs”; I assumed I was suppose to replace this with my own publisherId, like “com.myindiegamecompany”.

I am getting a build error that says “You are not currently subscribed to the following plugins”. I am a pro subscriber and eveything is setup in my google developer portal.

Any help would be very much appreciated?

dchan · June 11, 2013, 4:32am

There’s no way other than to keep commenting it out right now, sorry.

laptop88 · June 4, 2013, 12:52pm