Hi,
as far as I understand from the What's New in Game Center https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/611/?time=1139 session, in iOS 10, the invites are sent and received through iMessage.
The video contains pointers to MatchMaking through the GKMatchmakerViewController interface.
How do we do programmatic matchmaking in iOS 10? In particular, how do we send an invite to someone in the contacts list?
Jean
Yesterday, I filed a techincal code level request for Apple engineers to provide a sample code on how to do programmatic invites through iMessage. Today the response came. Basically, they say that the current GameKit does not support this. Too bad, we are stuck with the standard MatchMaking interface.
And what with iOS9? How to invate players who currently not your friends?
As far as I can tell, at this time it is no longer possible. If it is possible, I would definitely like to know how.
So bad for me. And what about the Matchmaker. Do is find players for matches who currently not friends? Because now I'm testing multyplayer on two devices with iOS9, and they don't see each other. May be I do something wrong. I don't know. But I think that the Matchmaker don't see new players.
I think it is also not possible to invite players who are not currently friends using the Matchmaker. Apple is encouraging us to upgrade. I have contacted Apple via the Bug Reporter and they replied saying that the Friends feature has been frozen -- no new friends. You should be able to still start a match with a random opponent for testing purposes.
Thak you. I dont know why, but random matchmaker don't make the match with my two Apple ID's which I logged in on this two devices. That is, device's see only matches which it self created with empty plaсeholder slots for custom players. And another player can't to connect to that slots.
Not sure if this is the solution for you, but the first player has to make a move before another random player can join.
Very big thanks.
