Can't use Google Authentication, Social.localUser.Authenticate callback's success is false in Unity Editor and the game crashes on Android

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Thomas LAURENT asked Jan 17, '20

Can't use Google Authentication, Social.localUser.Authenticate callback's success is false in Unity Editor and the game crashes on Android

Hi,

I've followed each step of this tutorial: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/playfab/features/authentication/platform-specific-authentication/google-sign-in-unity and if I test the Social.localUser.Authenticate function the callback get a success to false when tested in the Unity Editor (I guess it's normal since it was not made on an android device).
On an android device when I hit the sign in button (triggering the aforementioned function) the game crashes.

Because of that crash I've no way to try any debugging.

Do you have any hint?

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Answer 1 · 2020-01-20T08:39:22Z

JayZuo answered Jan 20, '20

You are right, Google SignIn won't work within Unity Editor. You will need to test it with an Android device. Please follow this video: https://youtu.be/igup53sdmHg to set up Google Play Games Services first. Then you can refer to the sample to build your own project. At first, you can only import Google Play Games SDK without PlayFab SDK. Once you can sign in with Google, then it would be easy to add PlayFab SDK and login with Google account.

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Thomas LAURENT commented · Jan 20, 2020 at 09:29 AM

I come from Gamesparks mBaaS, the Google Play authentication worked well and after some time and updates of the Google Play Games SDK it seems my version (v9.50) has a known bug which causes the crash (more info here : https://github.com/playgameservices/play-games-plugin-for-unity/issues/2013), I'm actually testing a new update to see if that fixes the crash.

If the update doesn't solve my problem I'll try the quick manual fix for my current version and if it doesn't work I'll do as you suggested. In any case I'll post here what fixed my problem ;)

If others have the same problem I'm going into more details :

I've tested with the Google Play Games SDK Minimal sample scene and that's already making the app crash, I've reviewed the logcat on my device and I got this error "**** **** APP ID IS NOT CORRECTLY CONFIGURED TO USE GOOGLE PLAY GAME SERVICES **** Application ID ( 123456789012) must be a numeric value. **** Please verify that your manifest refers to the correct project ID. ****", a space character in the project ID field of the AndroidManifest.xml cause this error (123456789012 is not the true project ID, that's a dummy one I'm using for this comment).

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JayZuo ♦ Thomas LAURENT commented · Jan 20, 2020 at 09:41 AM

Oh yeah, I had the same error before, you can update Google Play Games SDK to the latest version to see if it works. Or try to replace "\ " with "\u003" as the issue suggested.

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Thomas LAURENT JayZuo ♦ commented · Jan 20, 2020 at 12:27 PM

I've tried GooglePlayGamesPlugin-0.10.06 (latest version), when compiling it throws a TargetInvocationException (same error as https://answers.unity.com/questions/1655306/building-for-android-freezes-unity-editor.html), when building Unity freezes at loading scene 0.
I've tried it on an empty project and the same things happens.
So I've rolledback to my 0.9.50 version and replaced in Assets\GooglePlayGames\Editor\template-AndroidManifest.txt "\ __APP_ID__" by "\u003__APP_ID__" then I regenerated the AndroidManifest with my new fresh template going into Window/Google Play Games/Setup/Android setup... and pressing the Setup button.
Once the game is built I've testing on my android device and the problem vanished, yay!

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