OFFICIAL GameMaker Now Supports Firebase

rmanthorp · Dec 16, 2021

GameMaker Studio 2 now supports various Firebase services such as Analytics, Cloud Storage & Databases through new extensions available on the Marketplace. You can download the extensions and read the provided manuals to easily implement Firebase features into your Android, iOS & Web apps (through SDKs) and other platforms (through a REST API for extensions that provide one).

The following extensions are now available to download for free:

Let's now look at what functionality each extension provides. https://www.yoyogames.com/en/blog/gamemaker-now-supports-firebase

Alice · Dec 16, 2021

I see there's now lots of greens in the Extensions section of the Roadmap.

Glad to see things are steadily progressing forward. ^^

jzavala · Dec 16, 2021

FoxyOfJungle · Dec 16, 2021

Perfect! Thank you so much.

Evanski · Dec 16, 2021

Okay but why through extensions tho??
same with the GXC Api, why suddenly this support only through marketplace items?

O.Stogden · Dec 16, 2021

EvanSki said:
Okay but why through extensions tho??
same with the GXC Api, why suddenly this support only through marketplace items?

Likely adopting a modular approach like other engines do, so if you don't want Opera API or Firebase, you don't need to bloat your project with it being enforced.

In certain other 3D engines, plugins such as water, animation and VR are all supported, but are separate libraries that must be enabled and downloaded in the engine per project.

Evanski · Dec 16, 2021

O.Stogden said:
Likely adopting a modular approach like other engines do, so if you don't want Opera API or Firebase, you don't need to bloat your project with it being enforced.

In certain other 3D engines, plugins such as water, animation and VR are all supported, but are separate libraries that must be enabled and downloaded in the engine per project.

True, but they could just as easily have this stuff under the game options, and include/enable the api that way, rather then relying on the buggy marketplace (before the v2 on the roadmap)

Alice · Dec 16, 2021

EvanSki said:
True, but they could just as easily have this stuff under the game options, and include/enable the api that way, rather then relying on the buggy marketplace (before the v2 on the roadmap)

But adding it to the game options requires adding more UI, compiling and whatnot to the core GameMaker, which needs IDE testing and adds another point of failure to the core GM:S.

And I guess they're betting on Marketplace not being so buggy soon? I'd rather have them spend, say, a month developing a set of Marketplace extensions and another 2 weeks working on Marketplace on the side, instead of them spending 6 weeks of making both the extension as a built-in functionality and the in-IDE system to enable/disable that functionality.

In general, I approve of them reusing the Marketplace tools to deliver Firebase functionality - even if Marketplace itself is bug-prone - instead of setting up some new toggle-able built-in features functionality which in all likelyhood wouldn't be any less bug-prone; quite the opposite. ^^'

Mool · Dec 17, 2021

@rmanthorp We still need the symbols or we can´t debug any native crashes. (which is super important)

This is what I get as log without symbols:

This is what we need: https://firebase.google.com/docs/crashlytics/ndk-reports

like Unity does: https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.1/Documentation/Manual/android-symbols.html

jzavala · Dec 17, 2021

Hi @Mool

Thanks for report, I will add the tag.
In future cases about extensions issues tag me

Regards

[UPDATE] Opppsss! add nativeSymbolUploadEnabled true have conflicts with other extensions, pending task....

rIKmAN · Dec 17, 2021

jzavala said:
Hi @Mool

Thanks for your report I will add the tag.
In future cases about extensions issues tag me

Regards

[UPDATE] Opppsss! add nativeSymbolUploadEnabled true have conflicts with other extensions, pending task....

This kind of response, support and feedback with regards to issues raised by the community is great to see.
Keep up the good work @jzavala!

Mool · Dec 17, 2021

@jzavala

Dont forget this here:

I tried nativeSymbolUploadEnabled true in the past, without symbols of libyoyo.so its not working.
I also sent a feature request via helpdesk.

Thanks

Zhanghua · Dec 17, 2021

There's nothing bussiness with CN....

gnysek · Dec 17, 2021

Will extensions like this be available as open source (https://github.com/YoYoGames) so we can add important fixes to them if we find a bug, or we still need to count that YYG team will not put them into oblivion for few years?

jzavala · Dec 17, 2021

gnysek said:
Will extensions like this be available as open source (https://github.com/YoYoGames) so we can add important fixes to them if we find a bug, or we still need to count that YYG team will not put them into oblivion for few years?

Hi @gnysek

We are taking in consideration GitHub.
But I'm new here please give me a chance to change you opinion about extensions support

Regards

Slow Fingers · Dec 17, 2021

jzavala said:
We are taking in consideration GitHub.
But I'm new here please give me a chance to change you opinion about extensions support

That would be nice.
I'm sure what @gnysek said was nothing personal, it's just that some things have been relatively archaic in the past, a lot of us are still a little 'yeah, right...

' until proven wrong. Chance given, tho!

Congrats on your new gig, and best of luck.

peardox · Dec 17, 2021

Why no auth for Opera in that version of the extension? Patreon would be nice as well...

jzavala · Dec 17, 2021

peardox said:
Why no auth for Opera in that version of the extension? Patreon would be nice as well...

Unfortunately Firebase does not have specific support for these platforms, but you can use Custom Logins to associate with any unique identifier.

Mert · Dec 17, 2021

Just wondering if these extensions will get kept updated since Google introduces a lot of updates to these sdks. I use my own Firebase extensions, but would love to switch to these.

My suggestion is to also implement the App-Check to prevent unauthorised access to the sdks.

gnysek · Dec 18, 2021

jzavala said:
But I'm new here please give me a chance to change you opinion about extensions support

I'm keeping my fingers crossed then, as for last 10 years there were periods when everything was updated and then forgot for many months, but as I understand there is now dedicated team to continuously work on all extensions like this, and there should be no periodical interruptions in maintenance anymore

Good work, we've got updates and new versions for dozens of extensions in last weeks!

breakmt · Dec 20, 2021

For some reason I can't build for iOS with this extension ("TEST FAILED"). I installed CocoaPods as described here.
Don't know if that important, but my path is not like "/Users/<username>/..." (as in article)

gem which cocoapods

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.2/lib/cocoapods.rb

in a .profile file I add this line
export PATH=/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/bin:$PATH

Could it be a problem? Is it okay that I see no "bin" folder in "/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/"?

(Macbook Air M1 2020.)

jzavala · Dec 20, 2021

Hi @breakmt
We are aware of the problem with Cocoapods and Mac M1,
I'm Mac M1 user too, this is what i do to build on iOS with cocoapods:

First time:

Go to GameOptions - iOS click Podfile and Podfile.lock
Click Build, this will result in fail but will create a Podfile in the root of the Xcode project
Close Xcode and back to GM:S 2
Go to $YourProject\options\ios and delete Podfile and Podfile.lock
Click Build, this will generate a Xcode project
Open the root the project
Close xCode
Open Terminal
Move to xCode project root folder-> cd $yourPathToXcodeProjectFolder
Run this script -> sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi (will request password)
Run this script -> arch -x86_64 pod install
Now open the new Xcode project generated $YourProjectName.xcworkspace (is white)
Done try build on Xcode

After First Time

Build without Podfile and Podfile.lock
Open Terminal (step 8)
move to xCode project root folder-> cd $yourPathToXcodeProjectFolder (step 9)
Run this script -> arch -x86_64 pod install --repo-update
Now open the new Xcode project generated $YourProjectName.xcworkspace (is white) (step 12)
Done try build on Xcode (step 13)

13 steps!, Good luck

breakmt · Dec 20, 2021

jzavala said:
Hi @breakmt
We are aware of the problem with Cocoapods and Mac M1,
I'm Mac M1 user too, this is what i do to build on iOS with cocoapods:

First time:

Go to GameOptions - iOS click Podfile and Podfile.lock

Click Build, this will result in fail but will create a Podfile in the root of the Xcode project

Close Xcode and back to GM:S 2

Go to $YourProject\options\ios and delete Podfile and Podfile.lock

Click Build, this will generate a Xcode project

Open the root the project

Close xCode

Open Terminal

Move to xCode project root folder-> cd $yourPathToXcodeProjectFolder

Run this script -> sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi (will request password)

Run this script -> arch -x86_64 pod install

Now open the new Xcode project generated $YourProjectName.xcworkspace (is white)

Done try build on Xcode

After First Time

Build without Podfile and Podfile.lock

Open Terminal (step 8)

move to xCode project root folder-> cd $yourPathToXcodeProjectFolder (step 9)

Run this script -> arch -x86_64 pod install --repo-update

Now open the new Xcode project generated $YourProjectName.xcworkspace (is white) (step 12)

Done try build on Xcode (step 13)

13 steps!, Good luck

Thank you! Wow, a lot of steps. Sadly, but when I do step 11 I get:

Code:

breakmt@MacBook-Air-Pavel adventure % sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi
Password:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed ffi-1.15.4
Parsing documentation for ffi-1.15.4
Done installing documentation for ffi after 3 seconds
1 gem installed
breakmt@MacBook-Air-Pavel adventure % arch -x86_64 pod install
[!] No `Podfile' found in the project directory.

But in the project root I can see files Podfile and Podfile.lock

Also, I don't know if this important or not, when I did step 2 I saw in GM output console:

Code:

Pod install result: [33mWARNING: CocoaPods requires your terminal to be using UTF-8 encoding.

Consider adding the following to ~/.profile:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

And building hangs forever with

Code:

About to execute:/bin/bash -l -c "cd /Users/breakmt/gamemakerstudio2/GMS2IOS/adventure/adventure; open  -a '/Applications/Xcode.app' adventure.xcworkspace; while [ ! -d  /Users/breakmt/gamemakerstudio2/GMS2IOS/adventure/adventure/adventure.xcworkspace/xc*data ]; do sleep 2; done; "

efeberku · Dec 21, 2021

THANK YOU SO MUCH
~~The only thing that I may need is official support for ad mediation now. (Maybe IronSource)~~

jzavala said:
AdMob extension is able to use mediations

Edit: Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you.

jzavala · Dec 21, 2021

efeberku said:
THANK YOU SO MUCH
The only thing that I may need is official support for ad mediation now. (Maybe IronSource)

AdMob extension is able to use mediations

Mool · Jan 15, 2022

@jzavala Could you implement the symbols for native crash logging?

jzavala · Jan 15, 2022

Mool said:
@jzavala Could you implement the symbols for native crash logging?

I already tried it but the implementation presents several problems, please open a support ticket

Mool · Jan 15, 2022

I still added it few month back. They told me, that it is added to discussion.

xCarras · Apr 16, 2022

with this extension its possible make a multiplayer game using the realtime database?

RhyminGarFunkle · Apr 17, 2022

xCarras said:
with this extension its possible make a multiplayer game using the realtime database?

Only if a delay of several seconds would be acceptable, and relatively little data needs to be exchanged (otherwise it will quickly become very expensive). Pokemon-style battles and trading would probably be perfectly doable, but not a real-time shooter.

ShubhamBansod · Aug 19, 2022

Remote Config + Web is crashing the game!

runner.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
Firebase.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
index.html:117 Uncaught ReferenceError: GameMaker_Init is not defined
at index.html:117:33

ShubhamBansod · Oct 14, 2022

Firebase FireStore: A Simple bug Making unable to use the Extension!

GML:

var json = json_stringify({ name: "Hero", level: 100 });
listenerId = FirebaseFirestore("myCollection/newDoc").Set(json);

The error I'm Getting:

"target exception: java.lang.boolean cannot be cast to java.lang.double. Cause: null. stack trace:"

xCarras · Dec 15, 2022

Hi i have a problem with listeners. When i set a listener from a database path to read changes the social event always execute the code from this listener without update the values from the database. its normal?

jzavala · Dec 15, 2022

xCarras said:
Hi i have a problem with listeners. When i set a listener from a database path to read changes the social event always execute the code from this listener without update the values from the database. its normal?

You will get a callback the first time yes and each update

xCarras · Dec 17, 2022

jzavala said:
You will get a callback the first time yes and each update

then always i get a callback the first time without any update?
if i have a listener for a path that does not exist i receive a undefined value. Then how i can use and if stament for this value? because when i store this undefined value on a variable and i call if variable == "undefined"{
execute code
}

the code dont do nothing.

jzavala · Dec 18, 2022

@xCarras Try something like this:

GML:

if(async_load[?"type"] == "FirebaseRealTime_Listener")
{
        if(async_load[?"status"] != 200)
        {
            //Bad request
            exit
        }
      
        if(ds_map_exists(async_load,"value"))//value can not exists (this is what are you searching)
        {
            //Exists!! :)
            var value = async_load[?"value"]
        }
        else
        {
            //Doesn't Exists :(
        }
}

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