Cloud Saving via Google Play Services?

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I’m working on an RPG-type game which I’m hoping to save the user’s equipment / character stats on a cloud server.

I already have Google Play Services integrated, so my current thought process would be the following:

  • Get Google Play user’s username (not sure how to do this using BP)
  • Use the GP username as a unique identifier for storing gameplay info on cloud server
  • Send info to server whenever the player saves (or ideally, every X number of seconds / after major events)

Does Google Play Services have free cloud storage? Would I want to use this, or look into something else like AWS?

Or is there a better way to go about associating a user account with saved data?

Thanks!

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Google Play Services does support cloud saving (see Saved Games Support in Android Games  |  Play Games Services ) however, as far as I’m aware UE4 does not support this feature. In that case, you’d have to add it in yourself.

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Do you know of any tutorials that cover something similar to that? I’m afraid I wouldn’t know where to begin using an android feature with UE4.

Thanks!

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OnlineSubsystemGooglePlay has gpg::GameServices instance but it initialized without support of saved games snapshots. I trying to pull requesting it on github (just EnableSnapshots() on initialize).

Anyway, I did solution for Google Play and iCloud to use SavedGame feature via plugin Cloud Saved Game.