unified_game_services_google_play_rest #

Google Play Games provider for unified_game_services, backed by the REST Games API v1 (games.googleapis.com/games/v1). Pure Dart, no Flutter — runs in custom game engines / native OS windows, CLIs and servers, not only Flutter apps.

Because it talks to Google's cloud directly (not the on-device Play Services client), it works the same on desktop, mobile and servers. The trade-off: no native Play Services achievement/leaderboard toasts on Android — your app draws its own UI. For native UX on Android use unified_game_services_google_play_android (routes writes through the Java SDK); this package is the cross-platform REST tier. Most apps should use the auto-selecting unified_game_services_google_play (native on Android, REST elsewhere) rather than depending on either tier directly.

Supported capabilities #

• Achievements — list (definitions joined with the player's progress), unlock, increment, reveal.
• Leaderboards — submit score, fetch a window (global/PUBLIC or friends/SOCIAL, all-time/weekly/daily), and the player's own score.

Not advertised: stats (GPG exposes only fixed read-only analytics), cloud save (lives in Google Drive appdata — a separate API + scope), friends and presence.

Provider-specific extras (off the unified interface, reach via UnifiedGameServicesPlatform.getInstance<GooglePlayGamesProvider>()): setAchievementStepsAtLeast(), recordEvent().

Authentication #

The provider never performs OAuth itself — it takes a pluggable AuthStrategy:

• LoopbackOAuthStrategy — interactive authorization-code + PKCE flow with a 127.0.0.1 loopback redirect. Opens the system browser. For desktop/CLI. Needs a Google Cloud OAuth client of type Desktop app. Not available on web (a browser can't host the localhost server) — it throws UnsupportedError there.
• StoredCredentialStrategy — a refresh token (renewed automatically) or a brokered access token. For servers/headless. Web-safe.
• NativeSilentTokenStrategy — consumes a token from a host-implemented NativeTokenProvider (e.g. Android silent sign-in). This package contains no native code; the host brokers the token. Web-safe.

Scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/games. Refresh tokens require access_type=offline + prompt=consent (handled by LoopbackOAuthStrategy).

Web #

The package compiles and runs on web. The provider + REST client + the StoredCredentialStrategy / NativeSilentTokenStrategy strategies are pure Dart; only LoopbackOAuthStrategy's loopback server is dart:io-bound and is swapped for a throwing stub on web via a conditional import. On web, broker a token (your own redirect-based OAuth flow or a backend) and pass it through StoredCredentialStrategy.

Quick start #

final auth = LoopbackOAuthStrategy(clientId: '<desktop-client-id>');
final games = GooglePlayGamesProvider(
  auth: auth,
  achievementIds: {'first_win': 'CgkI...'},
  leaderboardIds: {'global': 'CgkI...'},
);

await games.signIn();                       // browser consent once
await games.unlockAchievement('first_win');
await games.submitScore(leaderboardId: 'global', score: 1500);
final board = await games.getLeaderboard('global', maxResults: 10);

Or run the bundled demo:

dart run example/login_demo.dart --client-id <id> \
  --achievement first_win --achievement-native CgkI... \
  --leaderboard global --leaderboard-native CgkI... --score 1500

License #

MIT — see the LICENSE file.

This is an independent, unofficial library, not affiliated with or endorsed by any platform vendor. Third-party credits and trademark notices are in the repository's NOTICE.md.