Converting PlayerPrefs to a Cloud based option

Hi All,

I have a game out on android that uses the playerprefs method of saving some data. I'd like to convert this to a cloud based option. Does anyone know of a method/plugin that I can integrate into an update that will transfer my playerprefs data to something on the cloud for android without losing the existing data that is stored in player prefs?

Thanks in advance,
Tom

 

Should this run on a device? e.g: when a user installs an updated version of the game, all PlayerPrefs will be synced to the cloud ?

This is not possible AFAIK, the PlayerPrefs class doesn't have any API for enumerating all keys it currently stores.

If you know all the different keys (and their types) that your game uses, you could probably work together an update system that will iterate all these values and upload them to a cloud-based provider.

I am not familiar with such a provider/plugin. I know that Unity itself mentioned an "experimental" solution for this they were playing around with, but it's not out yet.

Another option can be Parse (https://parse.com/products/core) but i've never used them myself.

 

Thanks @liortal

Does you know if Google Play Save saves the playerprefs?

 

Look into GameSparks, awesome cloud based solution for games. They have a NoSQL database and and events system you can use to store all player data.

 

What I would do is create a wrapper class for your player prefs. In that wrapper have similar methods like getint and setint etc, but have them write to a dictionary stored within the wrapper class as well as updating playerprefs. Write a save and load method that saves and loads playerprefs like normal, but serializes the custom dictionary as well. You can take the byte array from the serialization and add it to whatever object you store in the cloud along with your other game save data. Honestly, it should be really simple to implement since you're just copying 2 "functions" that already exist in your game -- playerpref management, and cloud sync.

 

@jtsmith1287 @Meltdown
Thanks for the input guys. Does anyone know of a good walkthrough for using the Cloud save of the Google Play Games plugin on Github? I'm reading the instructions and it's just not clicking with me!

 

You're welcome to private message me with questions. It took a decent amount of trial and error to get it working as the examples aren't 100% complete. I'm willing to help you feel things out.

 

Hi, seems thats quite old thread but you can use this custom PlayerPrefs class called Data that you can use to store everything you like in way you like
http://kostiantyn-dvornik.blogspot.com/2016/02/skyship-aurora-store-data-tutorial.html