Cordova Plugin For Play Games Services

Cordova Plugin For Google Play Games Services (Fork of ptgamr/cordova-google-play-game)

Modified to include the new Google Play Services (GoogleApiAvailability) and new methods for Leaderboards and Achievements.

Before you start:

Understand about Leaderboard and Achievement. Setting up your game in Google Play Developer Console https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/quickstart

Install

Cordova >= 5.0.0

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-play-games-services --variable APP_ID=you_app_id_here

Cordova < 5.0.0

cordova plugin add https://github.com/artberri/cordova-plugin-play-games-services.git --variable APP_ID=you_app_id_here

Usage

Authentication

Sign in

You should do this as soon as your deviceready event has been fired. The plugin handles the various auth scenarios for you.

window.plugins.playGamesServices.auth();

Sign out

You should provde the option for users to sign out

window.plugins.playGamesServices.signout();

Auth status

To check if the user is already logged in (eg. to determine weather to show the Log In or Log Out button), use the following

window.plugins.playGamesServices.isSignedIn(function (result) {
    // ‘result’ is a JSON object with a single boolean property of ‘isSignedIn’
    // {
    // 		“isSignedIn” : true
    // }
 
    console.log(“Do something with result.isSignedIn”);
});

Player Information

Fetch the currently authenticated player's data.

window.plugins.playGamesServices.showPlayer(function (playerData) {
    ...
    console.log(“Authenticated as ”+playerData['displayName']);
});

Leaderboards

Submit Score

Ensure you have had a successful callback from window.plugins.playGamesServices.auth() first before attempting to submit a score. You should also have set up your leaderboard(s) in Google Play Game Console and use the leaderboard identifier assigned there as the leaderboardId.

var data = {
    score: 10,
    leaderboardId: "board1"
};
window.plugins.playGamesServices.submitScore(data);

Sumit Score Now

Ensure you have had a successful callback from window.plugins.playGamesServices.auth() first before attempting to submit a score. You should also have set up your leaderboard(s) in Google Play Game Console and use the leaderboard identifier assigned there as the leaderboardId.

This method submit the score immediately.

var data = {
    score: 10,
    leaderboardId: "board1"
};
window.plugins.playGamesServices.submitScoreNow(data);

Show all leaderboards

Launches the native Play Games leaderboard view controller to show all the leaderboards.

window.plugins.playGamesServices.showAllLeaderboards();

Show specific leaderboard

Launches directly into the specified leaderboard:

var data = {
    leaderboardId: "board1"
};
window.plugins.playGamesServices.showLeaderboard(leaderboardId);

Achievements

Unlock achievement

Unlocks the specified achievement:

var data = {
    achievementId: "achievementId1"
};
 
window.plugins.playGamesServices.unlockAchievement(data);

Increment achievement

Increments the specified incremental achievement by the provided numSteps:

var data = {
    achievementId: "achievementId1",
    numSteps: 1
};
 
window.plugins.playGamesServices.incrementAchievement(data);

Show achievements

Launches the native Play Games achievements view controller to show the user’s achievements.

window.plugins.playGamesServices.showAchievements();

Other

Success/Failure callbacks

For all methods, you can optionally provide custom success/failure callbacks.

For example:

var successfullyLoggedIn = function () { ... };
var failedToLogin = function () { ... };
window.plugins.playGamesServices.auth(successfullyLoggedIn, failedToLogin);
 
var data = { ... };
var successfullySubmittedScore  = function () { ... };
var failedToSubmitScore  = function () { ... };
window.plugins.playGamesServices.submitScore(data, successfullySubmittedScore, failedToSubmitScore);

Platform

Currently, only Android is supported

License

MIT License