Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-19 Thread Chad Ata
cool, that's good to hear. Thanks for the response Kris. On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: To answer your question, no such thing applies to the cloud save API in the way you're describing. If your app isn't easily serializable in an

Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I don't see why this would be at all problematic. It seems completely within the guidelines that says this is a bad idea. The Cloud Save API is just that, an API: so I'd use it however it worked best for you! Kris On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Sheado chad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Android,

Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-18 Thread Chad Ata
Thanks for the response Kris, I ask because none of the conflict resolution docs recommend this solution. See: https://developer.android.com/training/cloudsave/conflict-res.html I'm also concerned that if it doesn't meet their quality guidelines, then it would not be considered for featuring.

Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Uhh. Hate to break it to you, but there is basically no way you are going to considered for featuring anyway, that's a whole 'nother ballgame :-). You can argue with people about how to make that happen, but I can basically guarantee you that they're not going to decompile your code and

Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-18 Thread Chad Ata
haha.. you're right, the chance of getting featured is practically zero. We probably have a better chance with the lottery.. or a lightning bolt. But, for example, Amazon has a Developer Select program in which you get additional exposure on their app store if you implement a set of features and

Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
To answer your question, no such thing applies to the cloud save API in the way you're describing. If your app isn't easily serializable in an incremental fashion, then an explicit save point sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to do... Kris On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Chad Ata