November 2011
Beginner
238 pages
6h 19m
English
Content preview from Beginning iOS Game Center and Game Kit: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
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The Sandbox
To help test your app before it goes live, Apple has provided a Sandbox environment for Game Center. The Sandbox functions exactly as the production version of Game Center, while keeping all activity hidden from normal users.
The Sandbox allows the developer to work on new Game Center functionality in secret, as well as not polluting the leaderboards and achievement systems with their test data. When logging in to a Sandbox environment, the login alert will state “*** Sandbox ***” at the top.
CAUTION: At the time of writing, there is a bug that prevents the Sandbox message from showing up while in landscape orientation.
Once logged in, there is no way to determine whether you are currently logged in to the Sandbox from within the ...