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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Can I link to dropbox? Other questions...

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AdamGM
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Posted: 14th Jun 2015 00:05
Hello,
just curious if I'm able to link to dropbox in AGK2. I know some apps use this to save a profile or link with other people in the case of to-do apps, etc.

Also, am I correct in thinking we can also link to Game center in iOS?

In games where some sort of progress is saved (levels in Angry Birds, for example), do we have access to however that is done? Is that Game center in iOS?

Thanks!
CJB
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Posted: 15th Jun 2015 01:12
Hi AdamGM. Dropbox is definitely doable if you have a server. You could write a couple of php scripts to interact with the Dropbox API (requires POST and GET methods, so not possible directly from AppGameKit yet), and use AppGameKit to send/receive files to your PHP. The dropbox API is very well documented so shouldn't be too tricky.

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Uzmadesign
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Posted: 17th Jun 2015 00:55 Edited at: 17th Jun 2015 01:00
As far as I'm aware, Games like Angry birds etc, either save your progress locally (so if you wipe your fone, you have to start again from the beginning) or they store it on their own servers somewhere on the internet. Usually these kind of games require a log in of some kind (Usually FB or G+).

This is how I am trying to do it. Essentially I'm using a set of credentials generated from the users FB ID as a login to a MySQL DB where I am storing the users Hi Scores and level progress etc. I am using PHP scripts stored on the server to enter/retrieve values from the database using the HTTP commands.

Using dropbox to store this stuff limits your userbase to those who use Dropbox (I'm sure I wouldn't create an account just so I could play a freebie game I downloaded from the Play store), where as your own online database allows anyone with a net connection to play.

Hope that helps.

@CJB:
That's a very handy thing to know.

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