Unity3D saving data to ICloud

Hello.

I am working on game project using Unity3D and I want to save (string or binary no problem) to icloud. I need it to implement game progress synchronization. I searched the web but I couldn't find a solution. I used google play services cloud and it was very easy to use. But when I began with data upload and download, I didn't know what to do.
Any helps

Thanks

 

Prime31 has an iCloud plugin.

 

Thanks. I am looking for plugins.
But I wonder if there is a solution like saving to google cloud. Simple and without plugins

 

No matter what you do, you'll need a plugin of some sort. Google have their own official API for it here with info on how to set it up. https://github.com/playgameservices/play-games-plugin-for-unity

 

Any luck with iOS cloud storage? Google Play Games Service has their own solution, yet Apple has not provided anything like that so far =/

 

Have you looked at this plugin:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packag...ross-platform-native-plugins-ultra-pack-31086

Particularly the cloud services. It has iCloud (iOS) and SavedGames (Android) support.

Haven't tried it myself but I'm planning to use it on my next project.
Let us know how it goes.

 

I have been searching about the same thing! Any luck?

 

We used a plugin from the asset store

 

Which one did you go with exactly?

 

Just wow... at least share the solution if you have found it. I mean, you came asking for help and yet you can't even provide the name of the plugin you used. I am actually researching on this same issue, without any luck so far.

 

Anyone is willing to share anything useful about this topic?
It just looks like that there is no documentation at all and no plugin from Apple for Unity integration, how am I supposed to make this work?
I am of course willing to evaluate to use an asset store plugin if someone shares his/hers experience with it and if it can save me time but I don't want to use it as a "black box" without knowing what it does and knowing that with the proper plugin or documentation I could probably implement it by myself (as I did with Google Play Games integration for instance).

 

Hi @JeffDUnity3D , thank you very much for your response.

I checked the asset and yes, it's clearly a good asset.
What bothers me is that there is no official Apple plugin for this integration and I don't want to use external assets as a "black box": I am an experienced developer and I'd like to understand how it works and what kind of integration it is using (surely native code from what I am discovering in these days).
I know that the first part of my sentence probably should be taken to another "interested party", but IMHO it's very strange that there is no "official" way of integrating these key features.

 

There are a lot of assets with cloud save functions, but all of them are multipurpose overloaded with tons of stuff and libraries. And what we (most of the developers) need is simple plugin for cloud saves. I've tried the only lightweight solution I found Play Game & Game Center Integration yesterday and it occurred that this is just a fraud, there is no Cloud Save inside as declared.

 

Please, could you, at least, provide the name of the plugin you are currently using for this purpose?

 

2019.
Still looking for a proper solution.
Still no luck.

 

True... What we did - we purchased one of the "big packages" (Easy Mobile, to be precise), and took library responsible for game services and code "talking" to this library. Slightly adjusted it to our needs and that's it. But I don't like this solution, because when cloud saves will change on Apple or Google side - probably we will need to reimplement it... Still better then nothing...

 

Well, for iOS, whatever is saved in the persistendatapath, is automatically synced to iCloud. if the user has an iCloud account setup. Unless the file is marked with UnityEngine.iOS.Device.SetNoBackupFlag

 

Hey,
We have released a small open-source utility wrapper library which lets you use the GKSavedGame API from the GameKit framework directly from Unity:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/uti...ns-the-missing-ios-cloud-save-feature.643912/

 

Amazing work, thanks for sharing it!
One question though - how did you handle the entitlements for the iCloud capability and the iCloud container?
Could you please send me an example 'entitlements.xml' file or something like that?
Or did you use the ProjectCapabilityManager unity API for that? If so, how?

Sorry for the intense questioning

 

Hey,
Sorry for not responding sooner, here's a sample entitlements file:

Code (CSharp):

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2. <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
3. <plist version="1.0">
4. <dict>
5.     <key>com.apple.developer.icloud-container-identifiers</key>
6.     <array>
7.         <string>iCloud.$(CFBundleIdentifier)</string>
8.     </array>
9.     <key>com.apple.developer.icloud-services</key>
10.     <array>
11.         <string>CloudDocuments</string>
12.     </array>
13.     <key>com.apple.developer.ubiquity-container-identifiers</key>
14.     <array>
15.         <string>iCloud.$(CFBundleIdentifier)</string>
16.     </array>
17. </dict>
18. </plist>
19.  

Handling entitlements is out of scope for this project, but is something we should totally do on DarkCPS (The project GKNativeExtensions was made for).

 

I am working on game project using Unity3D and I want to save data to icloud. I need it to implement game progress synchronization. I searched the web but I couldn't find a solution.
i cloud tutorial for unity

 

Hi,
Please have a look at Cross Platform Native Plugins which has cloud save feature. Please let us know if you have any issues.

Thanks,
VB Team

 

I have a question about the cloud saving feature.
Are players able to see the files inside? or tamper with them? we want to use it but we dont know how secure is this container, of course we will encrypt it anyway but still, does anyone know ?
Thanks!

 

Hi Garrettec, I'm experiencing the same as you and i think it's frustrating. Have you found a better solution? I'm about to buy the Easy Mobile Pro too...

 

Year and a half ago we purchased one of the "big packages" (Easy Mobile, to be precise), and took library responsible for game services and code "talking" to this library. Slightly adjusted it to our needs. It was working for some time, but I couldn't say it was a pleasant experience stripping this huge monstrosity and adjusting the code. Later when building process for Android changed (new requirements from Google) we dropped synchronization and cloud save features in our games, because reapplying all our "adjustments" to updated Easy Mobile plugin didn't worth the efforts.

So, unfortunately I don't know what to suggest you now

 

Ok! Thank you.
I think the Google Saved Games can be done with the official plugin from Google: https://github.com/playgameservices/play-games-plugin-for-unity without using the big packages, the problem is the iOS Cloud which hasn't got any official solution.
I guess i will just go with the big package, it says it is modular and you can select only what you want to use, i will see if that's good.

 

iOS Cloud is a big black box full of bugs, sometimes saved games take 2 seconds to sync, sometimes 30 minutes, and there is no way to know the status of the sync... or if there's even something to sync...I think it might be a good solution for some apps, but for saving games that you might want to play on different devices it doesn't work too well...
We just got headaches with this, still, we are using it since is the only free way to share the game between devices though, the plugin we use is the Stan's Assets IOS Native Pro.

If someone got satisfying results using iCloud we would thank any advice on this matter. What we currently do is to combine Firebase with iCloud. But we would love to listen other approaches too.

Good luck!
pistoleta

 

If we get a good way in the future i will write back

 

Hi @pistoleta would you be willing to share your code for using Stan's iOS Native Pro for this? We use their pro plugins for iOS and Android already and are trying to figure out how to use them for cloud save... any help would really be appreciated!

 

DM me

 

Just wanted to notify the watchers on this thread that I've written a CloudKit plugin that should be able to help you with your save files. Using CloudKit directly can help you avoid a lot of the bugs that Game Center has with its save-system API. It works a lot better than the other popular options out there. I actually wrote it out of frustration from using the others. A handful of studios have already shipped games with it. Check it out! And don't hesitate to ask any questions if you need a hand with it.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/hovelhouse-cloudkit-plugin-168227

 

wow, forgot about this old thread.
I'm already using hovelhouse's plugin and totally recommend it.

 

Cool, if you posted it here 1-2 month ago I could have tried your plugin. I bought iOS Native Pro just to use iCloud save feature and it can't even built correctly in game

 

Building for iOS once you have plugins involved can get tricky. Apple has a lot of hoops you have to jump through. What's the build problem you're having? I may be able to help.

 

Can anyone provide a simple iCloud Save feature step by step without using plugins from asset store. I just need a simple key-value save to iCloud.Please help

 

This plugin is no longer available. Any other recommendations?

 

You still can use it, the repo is public. We are using it without problems.