iOS 10 and GameCenter: Leaderboards and Achievements Question

Hello Community,

I have been searching for an answer to a question I have had since I heard about the GameCenter App being removed in iOS 10. "Even though the GameCenter App is going to be removed in iOS 10 the functionality will remain".

After looking through page after page from news sites, I have heard two different things:

1. GameCenter's Leaderboards and Achievements will still show in the app when the native methods are called in the GameCenter format like they do now.

And the second I heard which contradicted the first:

2. You have to pull the data from gamecenter and display your own leaderboards and achievement data with your UI since GameCenter's UI will not be there.

This isn't too much of a problem for me since I can do it either way but I prefer the former over the latter. Does anyone have any information on this?

Thanks!

 

Not 100% sure, but I got the impression that the standard UI to show leaderboards/achivements would remain, so as long as your app can display it now, it should be OK.

I think it's fairly unlikely that Apple would remove that UI, as it would break backward-compatibility with a lot of existing apps?

 

@smasters654 - Thanks for the info, I think @bluescrn is on right tracks, it seems more like they are just getting rid of separate standalone Game Center app.

Based on quick search, this seems to be the case with "removal of game center":
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16...nter-app-gone-invites-are-managed-by-messages

However, I hope it turns out to be like you hoped, i.e. there still is standard in game leaderboard available.

 

Thanks for the replies guys. I never really thought too hard about compatibility with previous games, other than I figured all of them would have too setup their own leader board UI, but now that you got me thinking about it, that would really take a long time for apple's review teams to review alllllll those apps that would have to be resubmitted as well so it must be that the Gamecenter UI should still be there.

 

Actually is not clear to me how we are supposed to invite friends. I mean how can I implement this using Social class of UnityEngine?

 

Any news on this one?

I'm using the Social plugin + leaderboards at the and can confirm that the leaderboard UI is still working on device in my tests. Note sure what use it is if you can't add friends anymore though. Anyone know if iMessage invites are the same as adding friends or are you stuck with the friends you have? In that case I see no future in using Game Center.