[URGENT]MAC App review team rejected because GameKit framework linked!

Did you use the asset I told you from the asset store?

 

@MobApps ,@Pharaoh35, I have almost the same problem. BUT my rejection message differs a little bit:

The app links against the GameKit framework but has no apparent Game Center functionality. If we've missed functionality within your app that uses Game Center, please use the Resolution Center to describe where we can find this functionality.

If you do not intend to use Game Center functionality, please unlink the GameKit framework, otherwise, if you intend to use Game Center functionality, please add the "com.apple.developer.game-center" entitlement and submit an updated binary.

And YES, I'm using Social API in my game. And I tried the Unity Entitlements Tools also. No results. When I open the game for testing, nothing happens! But when I log out from GameCenter.app, the Game Center dialog shows up in my game. I enter the email and pass, the dialog disappears and then shows up again and again and again, until I press cancel. In the Console.app I have this deny mach-lookup com.apple.marco Did you guys have this problem while testing?

 

Yes, it was waste of money.

 

I have the same problem with a lot of login dialogs with mac os version only. iOS version of game works perfect!(same code)

 

Hm..it's interesting, why Apple Team states that I do have linked GameKit and no functionality but in your case you have GS functionality without linked Gamekit.

My iOS version also works perfectly. Maybe someone from Unity can give us an answer? Does anybody have an approved Mac OS version WITH Game Center functionality?

 

Not a waste of money, are you using it correctly.
So did you tick the check box: Services: Game Centre????
You need to fiddle with permissions and sandboxing.

Thing is why keep complaining on here when you need to post a bug report to Unity if indeed its a Unity issue.

 

I agree, this tool saves you about 10 minutes on doing code signing. But It doesn't matter whether you use it or not, the problem still exists. Probably it's a unity bug. By the way, how to file a bug report to unity?

 

For me it was waste of money, because there is no difficult to sign build manually. You can find a lot of articles how to do it at the internet, the most problem is to write right entitlements, but it is easy to create native mac os app in xcode and take a look at all necessary entitlements. All other stuff is very simple. This asset is good for people who don't want to think and ready to pay in all strange situations. I've purchased it just because read posts here. And ofcourse I've checked GameCenter checkbox. The problem is still exists, and I am still waiting for the one who will be able to release build with GameCenter functionality for mac store.

 

@MrEsquire, Yes i tick GameCenter, also contacted with Unity Emtitlement Tool Set. They also not aware of this issue. I mailed to Unity executive as well, but due to Christmas vacation I have to wait couple of days more.

@Maxxxxxx ,

I am getting same issue as above. Works fine in iOS with same code and approved as well.

Hoping Unity will come with solution soon.

 

@jonas echterhoff , thanks for your response. Also, I thing you should choose testing on a local computer as a starting point. Because, as I mentioned earlier, When I open the game for testing, nothing happens! But when I log out from GameCenter.app, the Game Center dialog shows up in my game. I enter the email and pass, the dialog disappears and then shows up again and again and again, until I press cancel. In the Console.app I have this deny mach-lookup com.apple.marco. So, maybe the problem is here.

And in my case the Review Team says that I do have a link against GameKit.

 

4.6.1, OS X Yosemite 10.10.1

 

I've just tried 4.5.3. Same results, can't log-in to game center while testing, nothing happens. But I've noticed that if I'm logged in to the GameCenter.app and press show leaderboards button in my game, the following window appears

 

Before testing Game Center locally you should make sure your app is running in a sandbox. You can verify that in Activity Monitor by adding "Sandbox" column to the view.

 

@jonas echterhoff, Thank you very much for looking into the issue. I will try with the older version of Unity and let you know what happens.

As said by @Mantas Puida, please refer below link:
http://forum.unity3d.com/conversations/game-center-social-api-issue-with-mac-app-store.421548/

But I am not getting this from where and how I can get the solution if my app is not running in "Sandbox". This is the first time I am hearing this. I submitted many games to MAS, but facing this issue first time.

 

I've just double checked with Activity Monitor. The sandbox flag: YES. So the game is running in sandbox mode. I have the following entitlements:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>com.apple.security.app-sandbox</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.security.network.client</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.security.network.server</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.developer.game-center</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.security.device.usb</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.application-identifier</key>
<string>xxx.com.company.appname</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Also I codesigned with the following certificates:
Mac Developer: Company Name and Developer ID Installer:Company Name for the package creation.

So, everything seems to be correct, but doesn't work

 

I will be forwarding this to our QA. Btw, which OS X version are you testing on?

In general I think there are two kinds of problems we should address:
a) GameCenter not working for locally signed apps
b) submission rejections for not being linked with GameKit.framework

For b) please give it a try workaround Jonas mentioned above and let us know if it helped.
Thanks for your help tracking down issues!

 

@Mantas Puida, OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
@jonas echterhoff, Tried your solution, but getting below errors:

 

@MobApps , it looks like you have a problem with project dependencies. I'm not a github user, so I don't know how to download project with dependencies. But I downloaded and installed a github.app and after that I was able to download optool, build and run it. So, try this method, it should help. But, as I said earlier, this tool doesn't work for me.

I have 10.10.1 as well and Unity 4.6.1

 

@Maxxxxxx, Thanks for the info. Now we have only one option that wait for new version of Unity.
@Mantas Puida,

Yes, you are right. Please let us know once there is any update. Eagerly waiting.

 

The problem is there were some bugs with a native resolution during fullscreen start up with a lower versions, so it is impossible to use

 

I downloaded github app from https://mac.github.com/, signed up on github and then only I am able to clone optool. Now the build is successful. Applied your solution and good news...my game is approved by MAS.
Here is the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sports-car-track-racers-real/id950630954?ls=1&mt=8

Thank you very much.

 

Yes. It will be easy for you

And I have one more question that why this solution not working on locally signed app? I think for local testing there may be different workaround. Am I correct?

 

Nothing changed with the locally signed app using optool. I still can't login to the game center. It keeps asking me for email and pass. However I will try to approve it to the MAS and will let you know about the result soon.

 

I've just got feedback from appstore review team:

2.2: Apps that exhibit bugs will be rejected
2.2
Here is how we found this bug:

When clicking on the Game Center button on the main menu, the Game Center login dialog appears, and then nothing more happens after the user logs in. No leaderboards are displayed.

@MobApps , could you please describe your packaging steps, entitlements,etc. I really need help.

 

Any new about that? We still waiting.

We using 4.5.6f1 on Mac Yosemite 10.10.1 and We are trying to build an update for game that use GameCenter, but still have problem with leaderboards (not showed when called) and also the app was rejected for gamekit link:

2.2 Apps that exhibit bugs will be rejected
Here is how we found this bug: When clicking on the Leaderboards or Trophies buttons, nothing happens.

2.3 Apps that do not perform as advertised by the developer will be rejected
The app does not link against the GameKit framework, but has Game Center functionality.

No news about this bug on the Patch 4.6.1p4? What is the official solution for this issues?

 

Oh good, this is finally being looked at. I filed a bug report back on December 9th about this issue (case #654544), but of course, as with pretty much all Unity bug reports, it never got looked at.

So we ended up shipping without Game Center support, and whenever users ask me why the game doesn't have Game Center support, I just tell them that it's an issue with our engine provider Unity, and there's nothing we can do to fix it.

It's alright though. We're already using Unreal for our next project anyway.

 

Hi!

We had te same problem.
Apple rejected our app several times because of the app didn't link against the GameKit Framework.

We try this workaround:

get optool (git clone --recursive https://github.com/alexzielenski/optool)
build it
run: optool install -c weak -p /System/Library/Frameworks/GameKit.framework/Versions/A/GameKit -t <executable_path>

Steps:
1. You need to build your .app with Unity.
2. Execute the command above.
3. Codesign your app with the right entitlements.
4. Submit to iTunesConnect.

Our app has been validated one day ago.

Unity needs to communicate about that.

 

@Bulwark Studios , did you include embedded.provisionprofile in your bundle while signing? I'm asking because if I do signing only(without including this file) I get the following error when deliver the app to iTunesConnect :
Invalid Code Signing Entitlements. The entitlements in your app bundle signature do not match the ones that are contained in the provisioning profile. The bundle contains a key that is not included in the provisioning profile:'com.apple.developer.game-center'

 

We use the "Mac App Store Toolset" plugin for Unity to codesign the app : https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/9231
It's a great plugin by the way.

I don't remember if you need to include the provisionning profile in the bundle when you codesign the app manualy.

Try to generate new provisionning profiles from the "Apple dev center".
If you enable or disable the GameCenter in your AppId settings (Apple dev center) you need to regenerate new provisionning profiles maybe that's the problem.

 

Thanks for your advice! Maybe AppID is a problem, I will try

 

@Bulwark Studios did you try to test Game Center in your game on your Mac, does it work locally?

 

I had to resubmit my game to the Mac App Store so I upped the version number in iTunes Connect and in Mac App Store Toolset from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6. Built and uploaded the .pkg file. But I keep getting invalid binary from iTunes Connect. In Mac App Store PIPELINE tab under SHARED SETTINGS I initially set Version Number to 1.0.6, and Build Number to 1. When uploaded to iTunes Connect this showed up as 1.0.6 (1) which is good in my opinion. This causes an invalid binary. Looking at the plist I see that:

CFBundleVersion = 1 and CFBundleShortVersionString = 1.0.6.

That is what's causing the error according to Apple. CFBundleVersion needs to be 1.0.6. So to make that happen, in iTunes Connect I upped the version number again to 1.0.7, and in Mac App Store I set both
Version Number and Build Number to 1.0.7. Built and uploaded the .pkg file. And AGAIN I got invalid binary.

What the heck is going on. A week ago I didn't have these problems.

Here's what Apple says:

Dear developer,

We have discovered one or more issues with your recent submission for "TOT 3". To process your submission, the following issues must be corrected:

Invalid or Non-Increasing CFBundleVersion - The value specified in the bundle's Info.plist file for the key CFBundleVersion must be a string consisting of any number of dot-separated components, where each component is composed only of the digits 0 through 9. For example, any of the following are syntactically valid values for CFBundleVersion: "1.0", "4.2.1", "5545.12", "1.4.0.0.5"; whereas the following are all syntactically invalid: "GX5", "3.4.2b6", "2.6GM", "1.0 (Gold)", "-3.6". Additionally, each updated version of the same application must have a CFBundleVersion that increases relative to that of the previous version that was actually made available for sale on the iTunes Store. For example, if a previously-available version had a CFBundleVersion of "1.4", then any of the following would be acceptable as the next update: "1.4.0.0.0.0.5", "1.4.1", "1.4.332", "1.5"; but all of the following (though syntactically valid) would be unacceptable: "1.4", "1.3", "1.3.99999", "0.9". For more information about the CFBundleVersion key and the Info.plist file, see Apple's Runtime Configuration Guidelines athttp://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/index.html

 

Yes it worked locally too.

You just need to codesign the app with a developper provisionning profile instead of a appStore provisionning profile and try the app.

We had some issue to activate the GameCenter Mac Sandbox with our Mac.
I need to force the sandbox mode with some commands line:

defaults write com.apple.gamecenter GKUseSandboxServer 1
killall -9 gamed

More informations here : https://devforums.apple.com/thread/258219?tstart=0

I didn't use the Social API from Unity to manage achievements / leaderboards ... I use the GameCenter Mac plugin from prime31. I don't know if this had an impact.

 

App is approved successfully, but Social.ShowLeaderboardUI(); ii not shows window. Social.localUser.authenticated is true, also I can see GameCenter Welcome message on game loading. What can be wrong? I am using Jemast tool for code signing and entitlements.

 

My app has also failed with the:
The app has the Game Center entitlement without linking against the GameKit framework.

I tried downloading and building optool as was mentioned in this thread, but it has multiple errors in the latest Xcode.

For now, this is the only bug keeping my app from being approved, and I am fairly frustrated that there is no good solution available. I am using Unity 4.6.1. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

So my resubmission failed too, with the same error after using Unity 4.6.4. Trying the optool route again -

The optool errors I get are:

optool 2 issues
Apple Mach-O Linker (Id) Error
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_FSArgumentSignature", referenced from:

Apple Mach-O Linker (Id) Error
Linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Thank you for any help with this.

 

I also confirm that GS works with optool but Social.ShowLeaderboardUI() doesnt. The same issue as @Pharaoh35 mentioned above. I'm using Unity 4.6.4

 

My MacOS game got rejected too, below what the Apple Review Team said:

"The app still links against the GameKit framework but has no apparent Game Center functionality."

Which is true, I don't use Game Center at all. Could I use the optool to unbind the GameCenter or something?. I thought on adding Game Center from the Apple Dev Portal, create new certs and sign the app with that but I fear that if they review the game and they see I don't use Game Center at all they will reject it again... somebody knows if that could happen?.

Thanks!

 

In Unity project we used Mac PrimeGameCenter plugin, but he doesn't work. And we deleted GameCenter from project

I used the "Mac App Store Toolset" plugin for Unity to codesign the app :https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/9231
Also used optool (git clone --recursive https://github.com/alexzielenski/optool)
But Apple rejected our app:

Unity: 4.6.3
How resolve this problem?

 

I believe it tells that you still have Game Center mentioned in entitlements generated by "Mac App Store Toolset". Try disabling it in that tool.

 

Of course i disabling it in Mac App Store Toolset. I looked all code and anywhere deleted GC code

 

And i have another question: i tried to use Prime GameCenter Plugin. But he doesn't works: if to open mac gamecenter and then launch the app, all works fine. But if i don't opened mac gameCenter and launched the app, all gc functionality not worked. Prime says, that problem in Unity or Apple.
Prime Mac GC plugin: the latest
OS X Yosemite
Unity: 4.6.3
How resolve this problem?