GameSparks and FireBase Cloud Messaging (FCM) on Android : GameSparks

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Ivo Swartjes

started a topic about 6 years ago

Hi,

Google has deprecated Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) in favor of Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). I'm now at a point where I either build GCM support or FCM support into our game in order to enable push notifications.

Am I correct that GameSparks currently only supports GCM? GameSparks asks for a GCM API key in order to enable push notifications.
If so, is there anything planned for adding or switching to FCM in the near future?

Thanks!

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Customer Support said over 5 years ago

Hi Guys,

We have tested Firebase with GameSparks and it works. There are some new steps involved with Firebase that are not in are documentation yet. We hope to get these steps into the documentation soon. For now you can follow along here.

1.Crate a new project on Google Developers Console

2. Go to the Fire Base Console and import google project and select the project you made in the google developers console,

3.Go back to the google developers console and go to credentials google will have auto created a server key

4.Go back to the gamesparks portal , go to integrations ->google-> edit put the server key into GCM API Key

That should be all you need. Try that and let me know how you get on. If you need any further assistance just let us know.

Thanks,

Liam

Customer Support

said about 6 years ago

Hi Ivo,

I will look into our plans for this and get back to you.

Thanks,

Oisin

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Gabriel Sauve

said almost 6 years ago

Any update on this subject?

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Hamlet Archer

said almost 6 years ago

hello. we are in the same boat. is there any update on this?

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Sandesh Salunke

said almost 6 years ago

Hi, We are facing same problem. If any update please share ASAP.

Customer Support

said almost 6 years ago

Hi Guys,

This is something we are aware of and it's currently in our backlog, we don't have a release date for it at the moment I'm afraid. You can keep an eye on our announcements page here for any updates relating to this.

Thanks,

Liam

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Hamlet Archer

said almost 6 years ago

hello, is there any update on FCM support please?

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Jonathan Hopkinson

said over 5 years ago

Bump. I need this too.

Customer Support

said over 5 years ago

Answer

Hi Guys,

We have tested Firebase with GameSparks and it works. There are some new steps involved with Firebase that are not in are documentation yet. We hope to get these steps into the documentation soon. For now you can follow along here.

1.Crate a new project on Google Developers Console

2. Go to the Fire Base Console and import google project and select the project you made in the google developers console,

3.Go back to the google developers console and go to credentials google will have auto created a server key

4.Go back to the gamesparks portal , go to integrations ->google-> edit put the server key into GCM API Key

That should be all you need. Try that and let me know how you get on. If you need any further assistance just let us know.

Thanks,

Liam

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Jonathan Hopkinson

said over 5 years ago

I got it working as GCM events following the steps. You just need to make sure you add Firebase to your Google Play project. The server key it gives you works as GCM. Thank goodness it is backwards compatible.

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Felipe Caldas

said over 5 years ago

Awesome, that's great news!

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Ivo Swartjes

said over 5 years ago

Great to hear! We're now also successfully using FCM using GameSparks.

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Aleksey Shishkin

said over 5 years ago

I've integrated FCM with my project, but push-up notifications don't seem to form properly from GameSparks -- they never pop up on my device actually.

If I check FCM Diagnostics in Google Play Dev Console (picture attached), I see that messages, sent from GS, were successfully delivered. But the application name is not filled (perhaps that's reason why I did not see them popping up). Also, message expiration date has its maximum value, though I've set 1 hour on GameSparks side.

Any suggestions, please?

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Aleksey Shishkin

said over 5 years ago

As the follow-up to my previous comment, I forgot to mention that the upper string in the attached picture show message sent from GS, and the lower -- sent simply from Firebase console (the later one was delivered and popped up on my device successfully). The last column is "Expire hours".

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Dimitri Laaraybi

said over 5 years ago

Hi guys !

Is there any ways to get it work on iOS ? We tried to send push notifications on Android via GameSparks (FCM) and it worked great, but it fails on iOS devices...

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