Prime31 Android Plugins Officially Live!

@rbisso, that is how Googles billing system works. There is no such thing as a consumable vs a non-consumable product. You have to manage it yourself.

 

@prime31 You do not have to consume an item before buying a new instance of that same item, in the case that you want to keep multiple quantities of that item. Your plugin is stopping me from buying the same item multiple times right now, even though that item is marked as "unmanaged". This was not previously the case and, right now, it's breaking our game.

From Google's documentation:

"Non-consumable and Consumable In-app Products

It's up to you to decide if you want to handle your in-app products as non-consumable or consumable items.

Non-consumable Items

Typically, you would not implement consumption for in-app products that can only be purchased once in your application and provide a permanent benefit. Once purchased, these items will be permanently associated to the user's Google account. An example of a non-consumable in-app product is a premium upgrade or a level pack.

Consumable items

In contrast, you can implement consumption for items that can be made available for purchase multiple times. Typically, these items provide certain temporary effects. For example, the user's in-game character might gain life points or gain extra gold coins in their inventory. Dispensing the benefits or effects of the purchased item in your application is called provisioning the in-app product. You are responsible for controlling and tracking how in-app products are provisioned to the users.

Important: Before provisioning the consumable in-app product in your application, you must send a consumption request to Google Play and receive a successful response indicating that the consumption was recorded."

http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/api.html#consumetypes

 

@rbisso, it appears that you did not read far enough along in the documentation you linked to. The next section entitled "Managing consumable purchases in your application" quite clearly states in number 3: "If the purchase was successful, consume the purchase by making a consumePurchase call."

You absolutely cannot purchase an item twice with Google's billing system until it is consumed. That is an undeniable fact.

 

So, why did you say:

Why couldn't you just say that consumables must be consumed? Why tell me there is no such thing as a consumable vs a non-cosumable product?

Your customer support is by far the worst of any of the plugins we've ever bought. Spend less time belittling your customers and more time making their lives easier. If you can't manage it yourself, hire someone to do it for you. If you can't afford it, here's a tip: never include the phrase "It's pretty clear" in your responses. It's ridiculously condescending and essentially amounts to 'RTFM'. This is not your favorite Internet battleground, it is a support thread. Like it or not, you are a service... and you guys are developing a terrible reputation amongst your customers. You should consider rehabilitating it, as it is injuring your business. I'd never recommend your plugins to anyone, just on the basis of the lack of respect shown to your users.

 

Also, why not include a simple upgrade guide when you make major changes to a plugin? You guys changed in Android IAB a lot post 4.2 (changing method names, etc, for whatever reason) and we're forced to dig into all that ourselves. You guys really need to get better at communicating with your users. The services you provide are really helpful, but why not seal the deal by providing great support? Not to seem overly harsh, just trying to help you guys (and others who use your products) out.

 

@rbisso, there are no consumable vs non-consumable products in Google's billing system. They contain nothing other than Managed products. They dropped unmanaged products about a year ago.

It isnt our job to educate you on how the entire Google billing system works. We are not a "service provider", we provide software. Nowhere in any of our literature does it say that we are required to even provide support at all. If you asked Google to explain how their billing system worked would you expect to get a response? We provide a plugin that gives you incredibly easy access to the underlying system. We support any and all issues with our code nearly instantly. Literally thousands of lines of code are reduced to just a few. If that isnt making your life easier I'm not sure what is. In addition, no knowledge of Android OS, Java, JNI, networking, managed-to-managed calls, etc is required to use the plugin. It is still the developers responsibility to at least have a cursory understanding of the way the billing system works. For the super low price we charge we just cant take the time to teach each and every person how the underlying system operates. Google wrote some excellent documentation that is there to do that job. You really do have to RTFM just a little bit.

 

100 person teams of people work for two years on well-supported games that cost the same "super low" $60 you charge for this plugin. Before you get on about how few of them you sell, consider that you might sell more by providing, at the very least, non-confrontational, non-insulting support. And maybe some ongoing documentation that's more than the bare-bones. Clearly, what you're doing is not working, if you have a 100-page thread of questions/complaints for just your Android plugins.

Even if you have contempt for your users, you could at least try to hide it for the sake of your business.

 

Alright, we worked out the issue offline. prime31 is just a little terse in his responses because he's got a lot to handle. No insult is intended. Fact of the matter is, what he provides is a great product that gets us a long way toward having great games, it's just a little short on docs and guides. I wish there were a place we, as users, could get together and further flesh out the documentation, make upgrade guides, etc etc. Fact is that this stuff can be pretty intimidating, even for someone who kind of knows what they are doing. I'd hate to be a rookie dev trying to implement this stuff.

 

Hello Prime !

We are using the new Prime31 Google Play Game pluggin (iOS version for now).
It's a great pluggin, very powerfull, Google play functionalities are great !

Prime, can you just automate with the Postprocess script for :
https://developers.google.com/+/mobile/ios/getting-started
Specially for
Step 4. Add a URL type
by adding insidethe Identifier / Url Scheme the Bundle identifier of the unity game
Please

On the other hand, I hade a correct authentication / redirection inside the game from Safari on the device, but the game don't seems to receive events (authenticationSucceeded / Failed)

Do you have some suggestions about this ?


Thanks !

 

@alewinn, it's already there. Here is a snippet from our docs:

"Once the setup is complete in the Developer Console you will need to launch the "Info.plist additions..." menu item from the prime[31] menu. a URL scheme must be added that matches your bundle identifier exactly. The GPGApplicationID must also be entered exactly as it appears in the Developer Console."

 

When I call the function FacebookAndroid.init (), it returns the following error: Failed to find provider info for com.facebook.katana.provider.AttributionIdProvider .

In the facebook page is now all set: Package Name, Class Name and Key Hashes.

Also manifest in:
<meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationId" android:value="\ 00000000000"/>
<activity android:name="com.prime31.FacebookProxyActivity"/>
<activity android:name="com.facebook.LoginActivity"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

Its working on some device and in some i am getting the error.

 

Prime, you rock and all of yours are blessed.
... I was blind but now my application builds automatically without intervention of humble man's han.
Amen

 

... But still can't receive messages from Xcode (Authenticationsucced/failed..Etc...)
I replicated your sample project, calls to PlayGameServices.init(..) / PlayGameServices.Authenticate() / etc... methods seems to work properly, but can't receive messages from the bridge...

Do you have any clue ? Do I have to create the "EventListener" game object in the first scene ? Is there some naming convention for the event receiver gameobject ?

 

@alewin, have you tried the demo scene? It will automatically log every event to the console and is a great way to see when the events are firing.

 

@Prime ; yup sure.

I used our Google Game ID config with the demo scene, but same problem, it gets inside Safary, then authorise, then go back inside the game, but it dont receive events :s (No trace inside the log).
I'm trying to have an access to the Google console (I'm not the owner of the application) there should be something missing inside the backend...

 

... Checked the console, oAuth is ok (checked)... don't understand why the application can't receive messages from Xcode !
Please help !

 

@alewinn, have you tried it in an empty Unity project? It is possible that you have other code overriding the openURL: app delegate method which would prevent any auth events from occurring.

 

.. It works absolutely fine inside an Empty unity project, but when I come to include it inside our project (which encloses various Xcode plugins), the demo don't work anymore. It builds ok, but same problem, the event receiver seems to not work correctly...

Do the Google Play game addon uses some kind of JSon library ?

 

I can't say for sure what Google uses as they are still closed source for the library. It has to have some kind of JSON lib though since their REST API returns JSON.

 

I feel fairly lost and the documentation on the prime31 site hasn't helped, nor the example scene.

All I want is for the user to be able to buy the full game as an IAP. Please help since it is all I need to do to be able to release

 

Hi prime. I have some problem when posing the score. I read a lot and I know the flow is basically :
1, login
2. get app access token << I got an error here :
Something went wrong deserializing the json. We got a null return. Here is the json we tried to deserialize: access_token=198679586956870|fSSY8ejZt_Bx6yw3HXNZAZSOWMY
I passed the appid and appSecret and a string handler as arguments

so, i try to copy this string and set it as the appaccess token
3.Call postScore() with my actually id, score and an hanndler with contain a bool.

However it just doesn't work. Before I read the this thread and the facebook score API page, I used the access token in my test app and it worked.( yea thats true, I don't know why) But it just suddently stopped working when I create a new app but with the same method.
Please help me to find out the error, I was so close. Thank you.

 

@luis, it sounds like your Facebook app might not be setup as a game. Facebook will not allow score posting unless the app is setup as an actual game in the app settings.

 

@prime
Thanks for the reply. I just sorted out. Basically, I got all things working fine, except I forgot to get the permission to post.
BTW posting score can use either a user or app access_token according to the facebook api page.
Thats why i can get it work with user access_token.
I still want to know what happen to the access token that I got??
Why is it telling that "Something went wrong deserializing the json"

 

@luis, that is normal. Getting the token is the only API that does not return JSON for some reason so that log will be shown.

 

NVM.

 

Hi, I am using the social network plugin to upload an image to facebook.

My problem is that sometime it works but not all the time.

Here is the code I am using:


FacebookAndroid.init();
FacebookAndroid.loginWithPublishPermissions(new string[] {"publish_actions"} );
Facebook.instance.postImage( img.EncodeToPNG(), message, completionHandler );
FacebookAndroid.logout();


Is this the proper way to execute this code or do I have to do it in another way?

 

@lats, I would be surprised if that ever worked at all. You can't just call everything in a row like that. Logging in takes time and you need to wait for the process to complete (the sessionOpenedEvent will fire) before posting on the users behalf.

 

Is this better?

Code (csharp):

1. void FacebookCode()
2. {
3.         FacebookManager.sessionOpenedEvent += PostImage;       
4.         FacebookAndroid.init();
5.         FacebookAndroid.loginWithPublishPermissions(new string[] {"publish_actions"} );
6. }
7.    
8. void PostImage()
9. {
10.         Facebook.instance.postImage( img.EncodeToPNG(), message, completionHandler );
11.         FacebookAndroid.logout();
12. }

If not, can you give me an example of how you would do it?
I am having a hard time with this.

 

Hi Prime,

I was just testing my games Facebook posting and my game crashes when i try to log in. below is the log.

I/Prime31 (17010): session state: CREATED
I/Prime31 (17010): launching proxy Activity to intercept SSO login

And then my app crashes.

Thanks in Advance.

 

Hi Prime,

I was just testing my games Facebook posting and my game crashes when i try to log in. below is the log.

I/Prime31 (17010): session state: CREATED
I/Prime31 (17010): launching proxy Activity to intercept SSO login

And then my app crashes.

Thanks in Advance.

 

@abza, how about including a backtrace so that we can see where the crash is actually occurring...

 

@prime31

Like @poolts, I am seeing this exact same error in our game, so it has to be a common issue. We haven't repro'd it in-house, but getting the reports just like poolts.

 

@prime31, I've recently implemented SocialNetworking for Android to use Facebook login features. It appears to work fine on my test tablet, a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

My problem is that my friend tested on his Samsung Nexus and this dialog pops up when you try to login.

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And when you select either option, nothing appears to happen. I haven't been able to debug on his phone so I'm sure what errors might be popping up.

This is what I'm calling to start the login:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.     var permissions = new string[] { "email" };
3.     FacebookAndroid.loginWithReadPermissions( permissions );
4.  

Since I'm figuring certain phones or versions of Android have this screen, is there supposed to be an event I'm waiting for, for the result of this screen? My friend said that games like Candy Crush just displayed the usual Facebook screen immediately when trying to connect. But he found another game that showed this screen, and when he selected OK it then displayed the usual Facebook login screen.

Thanks for any help with this!

 

@sonofbryce, that is the normal Facebook login screen for any device with native Facebook integration. Assuming that you properly setup your Facebook app on their website all the normal events will fire.

 

Hi Prime, I was testing chart boost android plugin. I was able to see the interstitial add for some time in the morning. Later, when i run the same code i get the following error ( while caching the interstitial add )

" 07-08 18:24:21.699: E/Chartboost(9473): Exception on http request: www.chartboost.com "

Any help please

 

@anonymous, assuming you have internet access you need to contact Chartboost to find out what the issue is on their servers.

 

@prime31, thanks for your help! I found out that I misconfigured the FB Key Hash, I was using the "androiddebugkey" alias from an example instead of my actual alias. Seems to be working correctly now.

This post helped me figure it out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...mote-app-id-does-not-match-stored-id-while-lo

 

Hi,

I'm having a little problem with the ShowAlert which is not firing. Here is the code i use:

This is the code i use to fire the buttons.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. EtceteraAndroid.showAlert(popupHeader, popupText, "Ja", "Nee");
3.  

And the EtceteraAndroidEventListener

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.  
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using System;
5. using System.Collections;
6. using System.Collections.Generic;
7.  
8.  
9. public class EtceteraAndroidEventListener : MonoBehaviour
10. {
11. #if UNITY_ANDROID
12.     void OnEnable()
13.     {
14.         // Listen to all events for illustration purposes
15.         EtceteraAndroidManager.alertButtonClickedEvent += alertButtonClickedEvent;
16.     }
17.  
18.  
19.     void OnDisable()
20.     {
21.         // Remove all event handlers
22.         EtceteraAndroidManager.alertButtonClickedEvent -= alertButtonClickedEvent;
23.     }
24.  
25.     void alertButtonClickedEvent(string positiveButton)
26.     {
27.         if(positiveButton == "Ja")
28.         {
29.             Application.OpenURL("market://details?id=nl.synappz.fysio");
30.         }
31.            
32.     }
33.  
34. #endif
35. }
36.  

Am i missing something here?

Edit:
Fixed it, i forgot to set the Popupheader string guess android doesn't like empty strings...

 

Hello, we are planning to buy Google Cloud Messaging Plugin from your site, I wonder if you still support Urban Airship for Android push notification. The documentation does not have info for this.

 

@sky, Urban Airship is not supported by the plugin.

 

Could you please explain "The values sent are multiplied by the screens dpi on the native side."? Are you talking about Density-independent pixel (dp)? Works fine on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus with ~320 dpi / 2 dp but when using my Samsung Galaxy S which has ~240 dpi it seems to expect a dp of 1 and not 1.5.

 

I asked this question and got a terrible response, can someone please give me a better answer than 'you don't know what you're doing'.

http://prime31.com/support/3685/logging-facebook-permissions-permission-request-

 

In the Social Networking plugin, when you get an 'object' back from a graph request callback, what is in it? This used to be Hashtables, but as of the last update I installed that's no longer the case, which has broken a bunch of my code.

Some docs on this would be great, or if they're already around then making them easier to find would be neat.

Also, having the API change and break my code less often (preferably never) would be neat.

 

@angry, unfortunately the public API has to change on occasion. We announced the move to generics one year ago which should be ample time to mentally prepare for the change. Perusing either the API docs or just opening the file and reading the comment above the method would lead you to this:

Code (csharp):

1. // Sends off a graph request. The completion handler will return a Dictionary>string,object< or List>object< if successful depending on the path called.
2. // See Facebook's documentation for the returned data and parameters
3. public void graphRequest( string path, Action<string, object> completionHandler )

If you want to future proof your code it is a standard best practice to use the lowest class or interface in the object hierchy. In the case IList and IDictionary.

 

Sure, but in each case what is "object"? Which of those should we expect as the top level object for different type of requests? I probably could write a nice piece of generic code which handles all possible combinations and just pulls out the data I need (it'd be lovely if such a piece of code were included!) but that seems overkill when for my given game there are actually only two requests I need to handle.

I have further feedback, but I think it's more appropriate for a PM, so I'll send one of those.

 

@angry, you have to check Facebooks docs to see what it returns. They either return a Dictionary or a List based on the API endpoint. There are only two possibilities and you really can't use a generic bit of code since every endpoint returns totally different data.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Facebook return chunks of JSON (or similar) data which you're then mapping into those data structures? I've only looked at their built-in query tool, so I could be wrong, but if it is the case then are you able to provide functionality to print out the different types used to represent the returned data collection? Or does that already exist and I simply haven't found it?

There may be a better way to do this, but what I ended up doing last night was unwrapping it like an onion - printing the type of object given at one level, writing the next layer of code to read it, and in that layer writing code to print the types contained at that level, redeploying each time since that can't be done in the Editor (again, at least as far as I know). I know that others have used the same approach in the past, as well.

 

@angry, Facebook will return either a JSON object which amps to a Dictionrary or a JSON array which maps to a List. The Utils.logObject method as seen in the demo scene is useful for dumping the structure to a log.

 

Why am I not getting any response here?

Could you please explain "The values sent are multiplied by the screens dpi on the native side."? Are you talking about Density-independent pixel (dp)? Works fine on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus with ~320 dpi / 2 dp but when using my Samsung Galaxy S which has ~240 dpi it seems to expect a dp of 1 and not 1.5.

 

@prime31

I'm having trouble with EtceteraAndroid.showWebView("file:///android_asset/terms.html");

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. E/AndroidRuntime(12040): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=file:///android_asset/terms.html }
3.  

And then my app crashes.

On another device, which has the Adobe's PDF reader installed, that will popup and then error that "The document path is not valid.".

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. I/ActivityManager(  445): START u0 {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=file:///android_asset/terms.html cmp=com.adobe.reader/.AdobeReader} from pid 32440
3.  

This is my code:

Code (csharp):

1.     string url = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.streamingAssetsPath, "terms.html");
2.     if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.Android)
3.         url = "file:///android_asset/terms.html";
4.  
5.     OpenWebView(url);
6.  

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.     public static void OpenWebView(string url)
3.     {
4. #if UNITY_IPHONE
5.         if( Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.IPhonePlayer )
6.         {
7.             EtceteraBinding.showWebPage(url, true);
8.         }
9.         else
10.  
11. #elif UNITY_ANDROID
12.         if( Application.platform != RuntimePlatform.Android )
13.         {
14.             EtceteraAndroid.showWebView(url);
15.         }
16.         else
17. #endif
18.         {
19.             Application.OpenURL(url);
20.         }
21.     }
22.  

The file is definitely where I think it should be:

Code (csharp):

1. $ unzip -l ~/Downloads/DollFactoryTest-Release-1.07.74.apk
2. ...
3.     25363  07-23-13 14:12   assets/terms.html
4. ...

Any thoughts?

Thanks