Questions tagged [google-play-games]

The Google Play Games services SDK provides cross-platform game services that lets you easily integrate popular gaming features such as achievements, leaderboards, and Cloud Save in your web-based games.

The Google Play Games services SDK provides cross-platform game services that lets you easily integrate popular gaming features such as achievements, leaderboards, and Cloud Save in your web-based games.

The project home https://developers.google.com/games/services/

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Reset achievements/leaderboard from my Android application

Can I reset my achievements/leaderboard result from my Android application that is used with Google Play Game Services?
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Deciding who is player one and two in a round based game with Google Play Game Services

I have a round-based Multiplayer game for Android that has been working over XMPP before, and I want to switch to Google Play Game Services. In the old version, there was an XMPP bot, deciding which player will be player 1 or 2. This is important to…
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Google Play games, 'Saved games' deprecated?

Is Google Play games services, 'Saved Games' feature deprecated? On their website Saved Games is not listed as deprecated. https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/savedgames However when specifying the Drive scope in code, Android…
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Alternatives for all google play games deprecated API's?

I want to add multiplayer to my game, using the google play game services API. Following this post: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/12/games-authentication-adopting-google.html There are lots of deprecated…
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Players only get their own scores from scores.list API

I have built a web-based game which submits players' scores to a leaderboard. The game also has a web page which shows the public scores from that leaderboard. It gets this data by hitting the scores.list API end-point. The leaderboard and game have…
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Best practices for saving game when user has signed out of Google Play Services?

The Google Play Games Services guidelines state the following: "After signing in, the player must always have the option to sign out." Imagine the following scenario: I download a mobile game and play it for a few weeks whilst authenticated During…
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Play Games Snapshot conflict resolution gives conflict

I've got the following code: Snapshots.OpenSnapshotResult result; result = Games.Snapshots.open(googleApiClient, "save", true).await(); while (result == null || !result.getStatus().isSuccess()) { Log.d("Snapshot", "Open snapshot"); if…
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Submitting scores to Google Play Games leaderboards and displaying new rank(s)

I'm working on a game where scores are submitted to leaderboards in an activity and the new high scores are displayed with ranks in a fragment. I have something (somewhat) functional, but the success rate is ~10%. The flow is as follows: Method…
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Google Play Game Service - Unlocked Achievement Popup not shown

When I unlock a achievement the "Achievement unlocked" popup is not popping up but the achievement is unlocked as I can see in the achievement list. I've already tried this solution but it is not working. I initialize the GoogleApiClient like this…
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Android API IsConnected returning TRUE after Signing Out

I am developing a game for Android using Google Play Game Services, using Xamarin. I am doing my testing using a Genymotion Android Emulator. I have run into an issue that appears to be a bug in either Google Play or Xamarin's implementation. If I…
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Can Google Play Games service be used for non games

Ok this sounds weird. Google play games was made for games. And it is excellent. Achievements, cloud save, etc. Now my app is NOT a game. But it is well documented and researched that turning chores/work/etc into games, makes them more fun, and…
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Google Play Game Services - Welcome Back Popup not shown

I want to show "Welcome Back" popup after auto-signIn process as stated in the following documentation(FAQ part) : https://developers.google.com/games/services/branding-guidelines I have tried some methods like reconnecting etc. but it couldn't…
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Google Play Game Service: show unlocked achievement

This might be a stupid question but I havent found an answer to it on Google so its up to you :) I am using Google Play Service to provide achievements and leaderboards in my android app. I…
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How to decide who is the first player when user plays quick game?

I am using following code in onRoomConnected(int statusCode, Room room) for deciding who is the first player. But some times I am getting first/second for both players same. How to resolve this error. if (quickGame) { myTurn =…
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Your changes could not be saved. Please try again. (-32600) in Linked Apps

I'm Trying to modify information in the Linked Apps section of Google Play Games Services in the Developer console. Things such as translated titles and whether or not the game uses anti-piracy or not. It is coming up with the following error every…
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