You can use this plugin for all android games.

Connecting plugin to your project.

Add escs repository in top level build.gradle:

allprojects {
    repositories {
    //...
    maven {
        url  "https://escs.bintray.com/escs-android-plugin"
    }
    //...
    }
}

just add this line to your app module build.gradle dependencies and sync:

dependencies {
    //...
    implementation 'io.escs.android:escs-android-plugin:0.11'
    //...
}

Now you are ready to use android plugin

Integrating plugin into your game.

It is very easy to integrate ESCS plugin into your game code

First you need to initialize your plugin.

Initialization

To start using your plugin you need first initialize it:

        EscsService.invokeManaged(
            EscsServiceConfig(
                public_key,        // String
                base_url,          // String
                player_base_url    // String 
            ), 
            applicationContext,    // Context,
            invokeCallback         // (status: String, 
                                   //     gameId: String, 
                                   //         tournamentId: String) -> Unit
        ) -> Unit

EscsService.INSTANCE.invokeManaged(
    new EscsServiceConfig(
        public_key, //String
        base_url, //String
        player_base_url //String
    ), 
    getApplicationContext(),
    (status, gameId, tournamentId) -> {
                        //... process result
                        return Unit.INSTANCE;
                    }
);

where:

• public_key- a key that you've obtained in the step 1 of the integration guide, like "fee91a27-2b87-45f8-8ca4-0b317707806q"

• base_url - url for the core ESCS service. It is https://api.escs.io for production environment

• player_base_url - url for the player's ESCS service. It is https://player.escs.io for production environment

• invokeCallback- callback when init is completed; you can omit it.

Callback lambda parameters are following:

• status - string "initialized" for fully initialized escs, or some error message, or empty string

• gameId - gameId string of configured game or empty string

• tournamentId - tournamentId string of current active tournament or empty string

Then you need to attach UI components into your activity (the button and the webview):

val viewGroup =
    window.decorView.findViewById(android.R.id.content) as ViewGroup
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val btn = EscsButton(layoutInflater, viewGroup, applicationContext)
btn.attach()
​
val wv = EscsWebView(layoutInflater, viewGroup, applicationContext)
wv.attach()

ViewGroup viewGroup = getWindow()
                        .getDecorView()
                        .findViewById(android.R.id.content);
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EscsWebView escsWebView = new EscsWebView(getLayoutInflater(), 
                        viewGroup, 
                        getApplicationContext());
            
escsWebView.attach();
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EscsButton escsButton = new EscsButton(getLayoutInflater(), 
                        viewGroup, 
                        getApplicationContext());
escsButton.attach();

Don't forget to clean up on destroying your activity:

override fun onDestroy() {
    btn.detach()
    wv.detach()
    EscsService.finish()
    super.onDestroy()
}

escsWebView.detach();
escsButton.detach();
EscsService.INSTANCE.finish();

Start/End Game

After that you are all set and ready to use ESCS functionality. To start a game's round, just call startGame() method:

EscsService.startGame { 
  // process start round callback
  Log.i("MyGame", it?.toString() ?: "no round received")
} 
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EscsService.INSTANCE.startGame(round -> {
    Log.i("MyGame", round != null ? round.toString() : "no round received");
    return Unit.INSTANCE;
});

where

• round - class instance with following fields:

• _id - roundId of just started game round

• tournamentId- tournamentId of active tournament for which the round was created for

• status- round status. "active" for just created round

• playerId- escs playerId

When the round of your game has ended, just call endGame() with score parameter:

EscsService.endGame( Score(147.0) ) { //Score takes double as parameter
    Log.i("MyGame", it?.toString() ?: "no round received")
}

//score takes double as parameter
EscsService.INSTANCE.endGame(new Score(147.0), round -> { 
    Log.i("MyGame", round != null ? round.toString() : "no round received");
    return Unit.INSTANCE;
});

where

• score - game score parameter of double type

• round - class instance with following fields:

• _id - roundId of just ended game round

• tournamentId- tournamentId of active tournament for which the round was ended

• status- round status. "ended" for just ended round

• playerId- escs playerId

Optional steps

Hiding ESCS button

Most of the time you will not want to show the ESCS button during the actual game, to not mess with the gameplay, for example user can accidentally touch it and almost full-screen webview will show up. To hide or show button you can use following methods:

escsButton.setVisible(View.GONE)
escsButton.setVisible(View.VISIBLE)

escsButton.setVisible(View.GONE);
escsButton.setVisible(View.VISIBLE);

Notifications/Announcements

There are situations, when ESCS needs to show announcements or notifications - for example to promote your game's upcoming championship, or ask user to add credit card, because his/her trial is about to expire. ESCS will open its full WebView automatically to show notification's content, if it's needed. To be able to show these, not interrupting your gameplay and at the times that are not interruptive for user, please call these methods:

EscsService.maybeShowNotifications()
EscsService.maybeShowAnnouncements()

EscsService.INSTANCE.maybeShowNotifications();
EscsService.INSTANCE.maybeShowAnnouncements();

There's internal logic in the plugin to decide whether it needs to show actual notification and announcement, but you should place these calls whenever you feel that interruption with ESCS WebView window is okay for user experience.

Please note that it does not mean that user will see notification or announcement every time you call these methods. We are trying for those to be as subtle and fluent as possible for end user. Their names imply that notification/announcement just maybe will be shown.

Changing default button position

There are situations when it is not suitable for your UI to have our ESCS button at default top center area. Then you can change that (remember, that user actually can drag the button anywhere on the screen he wants)

setDefaultPositionAbsolute() will set button position in absolute coordinates from left upper corner of the app.

btn.setDefaultPositionAbsolute(50f, //x
                                50f) //y

escsButton.setDefaultPositionAbsolute(50f,  //x
                                      50f); //y

where

• x - x coordinate

• y - y coordinate

setDefaultPositionRelative() will set button position in relative coordinates from center horizontally and top vertically of the app. That is, if you set 0, 0 coordinates the button will be shown in the x: (device width)/2 y: 0.

The coordinate system here is from -0.5 to 0.5 for xPart : where -0.5 means most left side of device and 0.5 - right side and 0 is dead center. For yPart it is from 0 to 1 where 0 is top of the screen and 1 is the bottom.

btn.setDefaultPositionRelative(0.5f, //xPart
                               0.5f) //yPart

escsButton.setDefaultPositionRelative(0.5f,  //xPart
                                      0.5f); //yPart

Getting in-game rewards

To receive the list of in-game rewards that particular player has (you can set those rewards as string fields in your game dashboard - for winning matches and so on) you can use the following method:

EscsService.getInGameRewards {
    Log.i("ESCS", "rewards: ${it.data.foldIndexed("") { index, acc, rewardPayload -> "${acc}\n ${index.toString()} ${rewardPayload?.rewardData}" }}");
}

EscsService.INSTANCE.getInGameRewards(rewards -> {
            Log.i("ESCS", "rewards " + (rewards != null ? rewards.toString() : " no rewards received"));
        });

Multiplayer

Overview

We support multiplayer games with different types of matches, matchmaking and so on. To be able to use this feature, you need to follow these steps:

• Create multiplayer tournament in the game dashboard

• Implement several callbacks in you game, which will be called in response to player's engagement with multiplayer tournament

Currently we provide 4 such callbacks:

• OnGameSetStart callback - is called when a game set is started by escs backend. This is moment when you should start your game or create lobby and await for players to join it. What is a "set"? It's just one multiplayer game that several players are playing simultaneously. It can be real multiplayer (e.g. they, for example, race each other on track in a racing game or are participating in a deathmatch 1vs1 or 2vs2 and so on), or even "singleplayer", meaning that they all play their own singleplayer game (like solving puzzles and the one who solves it faster is the winner). In this callback you will receive information about players that are playing this set, teams that players are in (i.e. 2vs2 game), metadata that is supplied with the player (supplied by registerInGamePlayerId) and global metadata that is set in the game dashboard

• OnGameSetEnd callback - is called when each player in the set has finished their game. this might be not necessary the same moment you end your multiplayer game - it is called when the escs backend processed all game end events from each participating player and saved their corresponding scores. You will receive matchId and setId as parameters

• OnMatchStart callback - is called when multiplayer match has started. Usually you will get this event right before getting OnGameSetStart. Each match consists of several game sets. You will receive matchId as parameter of this callback.

• OnMatchEnd callback - is called when multiplayer match has ended. That is when all the sets in the match has been played or timeout occurred. You will receive matchId as parameter of this callback

The following diagram may be helpful for understanding about aforementioned events:

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To utilize these events you can call methods described below.

Registering in-game player id and metadata:

EscsService.registerInGamePlayerId(playerId, playerMetadata)

EscsService.INSTANCE.registerInGamePlayerId(playerId, ingameMetadata);

where:

• playerId - your ingame player id (string). It will be passed along with OnGameSetStart callback when the game set will start

• ingameMetadata - your ingame metadata for this player (string)

Minimal multiplayer setup

In order to create minimal trivial multiplayer setup, you will just need to register OnGameSetStart event. Starting a game in response to this event and it's parameters is enough to use multiplayer features of escs.

Register OnGameSetStart event callback

EscsService.registerGameSetStartCallback { data ->
    Log.i("ESCS", "Set started: ${data.setId}, round: ${data.roundId}, players: ${data.participants[0][0].username} ${data.participants[1][0].username}")
}

EscsService.INSTANCE.registerGameSetStartCallback(gameSetStartData -> {
    Log.i("ESCS", "gameSetStartData " + (gameSetStartData != null ? gameSetStartData.toString() : " no gameSetStartData received"));
    return Unit.INSTANCE;
});

Register OnGameSetEnd event callback

EscsService.registerGameSetEndCallback {
    Log.i("ESCS", "Set ended: ${it.setId} of match ${it.matchId}" )
}

EscsService.INSTANCE.registerGameSetEndCallback(gameSetEndData -> {
  Log.i("ESCS", "gameSetEndData " + (gameSetEndData != null ? gameSetEndData.toString() : " no gameSetEndData received"));
  return Unit.INSTANCE;
});

Register OnMatchStart event callback

EscsService.registerMatchStartCallback {
    Log.i("ESCS", "Match started: ${it.matchId}" )
}

EscsService.INSTANCE.registerMatchStartCallback(matchStartData -> {
    Log.i("ESCS", "matchStartData " + (matchStartData != null ? matchStartData.toString() : " no matchStartData received"));
    return Unit.INSTANCE;
});

Register OnMatchEnd event callback

EscsService.registerMatchEndCallback {
    Log.i("ESCS", "Match ended: ${it.matchId}" )
}

EscsService.INSTANCE.registerMatchEndCallback(matchEndData -> {
    Log.i("ESCS", "matchEndData " + (matchEndData != null ? matchEndData.toString() : " no matchEndData received"));
    return Unit.INSTANCE;
});

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