Get a user ID from Google Play Services?

Question

Is there any way that we can get a Google Play ID (number, string, whatever) from a particular user when utilizing Google Play Services?

Sarson

Answer 1

For Google Play Game Services you can use:

String playerId = Games.Players.getCurrentPlayerId(getApiClient());

Sankhya

I figured it out, but thanks. This could be helpful to others in the future. – Sarson

@Sankhya is it unique and constant? Can it be used for saving player's progress online? – Fluff

Answer 2

It depends on the service you are trying to access. Here is the relevant class Player for Google Play Games: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/games/Player.html

And the relevant class People from Google Plus: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/plus/model/people/package-summary.html

Finally, there is AdvertisingIdClient for the Google Mobile Ads platform: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/ads/identifier/AdvertisingIdClient.html

Shelly

Yes, I don't want to ask the user for G+ permissions. I just want the user ID. I don't know how to get to this "Player" class. – Sarson

com.google.android.gms.games.Player It's right on the first link. – Shelly

So just import it and that's it? And I get the user's ID? Do I need to do anything else? – Sarson

I notice that the player ID is a string, not an integer. What if the user didn't set a player string ID? I just want their user ID within Google Play Services.... – Sarson

Sounds like you want AdvertisingIdClient – Shelly

I do not. It needs to be persistent, in order to track all of a user's acquisitions (eg: free levels given for getting other users to play my game). The user can clear and reset the AdvertisingIdClient. – Sarson

Then Player is what you want. To the best of my knowledge, it matches the account, and it is not user-set but tied to the google account. – Shelly

Ok. So I know I need import com.google.android.gms.games.Player; and SOMETHING.getPlayerId();.. can you tell me: what is SOMETHING??? – Sarson

Answer 3

So the Games.Players class is deprecated and nobody gave a summarised solution to get the entire player object that allows to get the player ID, eventually. Here is what I've sorted out:

GoogleSignInAccount account;
PlayersClient playerClient;
Player player;
String playerId;

account = GoogleSignIn.getLastSignedInAccount(this);
if (account == null) {
    // do sign-in here
}

// Later:

playerClient = Games.getPlayersClient(this, account);
Task<Player> playerTask = playerClient.getCurrentPlayer();
player = playerTask.getResult();
if(player != null) {
    playerId = player.getPlayerId();
}

Gleason

Answer 4

I believe, the answers above our outdated. Try this:

var playerID = PlayGamesPlatform.Instance.localUser.id

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