Writing Game Center Apps in iOS

Bringing Your Players Into the Game



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Price$12.99 - $26.16
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AuthorVandad Nahavandipoor
PublisherO'Reilly Media
Published2011
Pages78
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101449305652
ISBN-139781449305659
EBook Hardcover Paperback

Now that Apple has introduced the GameKit framework to its iOS SDK, you can integrate Game Center features directly into your iPhone and iPad apps. This concise cookbook shows you how it's done, with 18 targeted recipes for adding leaderboards, user authentication, achievements, multiplayer games, and many other features.

How do you display players' scores and achievements? How do you create Game Center accounts and add friends? Each recipe in this book includes a simple code solution you can put to work immediately, along with a detailed discussion that offers insight into why and how the recipe works.



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