leaderboard for android?

stackpoolestackpoole Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaMember, PRO Posts: 473
edited April 2012 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hi, Is there a way to implement a leaderboard for Android games?

thanks

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Best Answer

  • StoneclipseStoneclipse Posts: 130
    Accepted Answer
    No. The leaderboard in gamesalad uses gamecenter which is only found in iOS devices, so there's no way to implement an online leaderboard for android now.

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  • HymloeHymloe Member Posts: 1,653
    Does anyone have any suggestions for how to bring leaderboards to Game Salad on Android?

    Do you think there's any chance we'll see that coming up? Or just don't bother making leaderboard based games for Android?

  • benlashleybenlashley Member, PRO Posts: 2

    I would like some input on this as well.. I just spent a month building my first game and got to the point i wanted to impliment my leaderboards and acheivements. I may have never bought the pro version of Gamesalad if i knew it couldnt do leaderbords for android, which is obviously the worlds most used phone os. Please put this in your next update, All of my games will be for android first, and then IOS later. Android is my priority.
    Thanks.

  • KillerPenguinStudiosKillerPenguinStudios Member Posts: 1,291

    @benlashley‌,

    I'm sorry to be posting this comment and rant but it really gets on my nerves when people say Android is better because it's the worlds most used phone OS. No duh it is but it only is for this one fact. As of 2010 there are a recorded 18,000 plus android devices while there are 6 iOS devices. When developing for iOS I can test on all of the devices to know if it will work and once published it works on ALL devices. When developing for Android i can only test on a few of the android devices. When my app is published it may only work on 600 of those Android devices out of the 18,000 plus devices.

    While Android’s massive number of devices from various manufacturers might seem like a good thing, it results in a sub-par user experience for many.

    Take a look at the graph above. No, it’s not a collection of all the color swatches from Home Depot, it’s a chart showing Android fragmentation as of August 2014. Every single square you see is a different Android device, and according to research firm OpenSignal, there are over 18,000 of them. That’s 18,000 kinds of Android devices that developers have to worry about, which means things like optimization and universal support go straight out the window.

    With far fewer devices to consider, even going back as far as the iPhone 4 from 2010, developers making apps for iOS are able to actually test how they work on each device, rather than waiting until enough users complain of a device-specific bug as they so often do with Android apps. On top of that, the iOS operating system is updated across the board on devices three years old or newer, whereas many Android users are forced to rely on manufacturers and wireless carriers to push updates out the door.

    This same argument goes with PC and Mac. It gets on my nerves when people go around saying PC is so much better because more people have windows than Mac. Put it into perspective. There's hundreds of companies that sell PC's with windows while there is ONE company the sells Mac's. So please stop going around trying to justify that Android is better because it is the most used OS.

  • LuMa GamesLuMa Games USAMember Posts: 129

    I would also like to say that there might be more people that have Android phones, but most of them are adults. The people that play games are mostly kids and teens. And I would bet that almost every kid/teen that has a smartphone has an iPhone. That's how it is in my school at least.

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