Android SOCKET.IO FOR ANDROID AND IOS

[Roger Canchanya Garcia]

Hi, colleagues again. I need my mobile games (ios / android) to communicate in real time with my server in NODEJS. I plan to use SOCKET.IO but I can not find information about it. Do you know something about the subject? Thanks for everything

 

[Pfap]

I think socket io is more for web based games and development. I don't have a ton of experience with web development or servers, but regular sockets are probably what you would want to look into for connecting to node js for a mobile app. Depending on what type of game you are making and what amount of lag you can tolerate you could checkout patchwire.

https://github.com/twisterghost/patchwire

 

[Roger Canchanya Garcia]

I think socket io is more for web based games and development. I don't have a ton of experience with web development or servers, but regular sockets are probably what you would want to look into for connecting to node js for a mobile app. Depending on what type of game you are making and what amount of lag you can tolerate you could checkout patchwire.

https://github.com/twisterghost/patchwire

Thanks friend. I had a lot of hope for GMS, but I'm very much encouraged to migrate Unity. I'll review the library you mention. Thank you

 

[YellowAfterlife]

If your server is in node.js, you can use regular TCP/UDP sockets (which node.js offers) and connect to it via network_connect_raw from GML side - there's little reason to add extra wrapping and encoding that websockets use if you are not connecting from a web browser (but even then, you can have a separate port for the native version)

 

[The-any-Key]

As long GMS2 dont support IPv6 you need some kind of extension if you plan to put the game on ios app store (apple demand IPv6).

 

[Lê Tuấn Anh]

Here: https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/8764/android-socket-io-client