It's been a while - but we've finally added a proper forum for the brainCloud development community.

We don't do this lightly. Although we're a small team - focused, direct support is important to us - which is why our direct chat forums have been in place since day 1 of brainCloud's launch.

That said, especially in the past six months or so, the call for community forums has become deafening - and as our community of developers is rapidly growing, we're realizing that enabling the community to help support itself (in addition to our crack support team) has its appeal! (We're Canadian, not dumb!)

After a long search, we decided upon NodeBB for our forum software solution. The software is modern, nimble, and fast - with a clean look-and-feel. We were also able to integrate it with our Portal logins - so you don't need two accounts to participate (that was important to us). As a bonus, NodeBB is also built in Canada! (We honestly didn't realize that until just a few days ago!)

Now that we've got our forums in place, we're hoping that you all will visit often and contribute! It's too clean and tidy now - come on in and mess it up!

Feedback welcome!

Cheers!

Paul.

Update - we suspect that this is the same problem:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/ios-post-request-with-raw-data.690514/

Hi folks,

We've discovered what looks to be a pretty significant issue with using brainCloud for large packet requests on IOS devices. (edit: removed mention of Android as we have confirmed that it does not occur on Android devices).

The issue appears to be limited to Unity 2019.X.

More info here - https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/warning-unity-2019-x-ios-issues/

We are constructing a minimal test app so that Unity can easily repro this issue (i.e. trying to take brainCloud out-of-the-test loop) - and then we'll submit the defect to Unity directly.

We'll keep you posted.

Paul.

Hi folks,

Our planned 4.6 release was getting too big - so we're splitting it into 4.55 and 4.6.

The 4.55 release should arrive within the next 30 days.

The big headliner feature is at long last, brainCloud will support Amazon In-app Purchases !

There are also a bunch of useful API additions. Check out the details on our Roadmap.

The bad news is that Cloud Code Folder are still planned for 4.6 - which is going to be a bit longer. That said, we're working hard to get it right!

Cheers,

Paul.

Hi guys,

The plan is to release 4.5 in April.

Cheers!

Paul.

We are pleased to announce the new brainCloud Roadmap! site.

This Roadmap gives a view of:

• what we're currently working on
• what we're planning to add to the platform
• what we're considering adding to the platform

(Note - we won't be necessarily putting everything we're working on here. We still like to surprise!)

Make yourself heard! Vote for the features that are most important to you - and submit suggestions for new features!

In the short-term, go check out the list of goodies that will be included with Release 4.1 next week!

Paul.

Good news?

Looks like Unity is aware of the defect (and working on a fix)...

From discussion here - https://forum.unity.com/threads/ios-post-request-with-raw-data.690514/

Paul.

Hi folks,

brainCloud 4.6 is now live!

The biggest change is that we've upgraded our MongoDB abstraction layers to be compatible with MongoDB 4.X going forward. All without affecting the brainCloud APIs that our customers use.

In addition, there are a few cool new features including:

• Script API Usage Stats - makes it easier to understand the performance and cost implications of your scripts
• SAML End-user authentication - for those writing apps that require SAML authentication
• Random Custom Entities API - great for those writing custom selection or matchmaking services
• API Keys System - a foundational component for our new Builder APIs, coming soon

In addition, there are mucho improvements to the client libraries including:

• Greatly improved RTT connection handling
• Removed tons of previously deprecated methods (so the client libs are now cleaner and leaner!)

For all the details, see the release notes here - https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/release-4-6/

Feedback welcome!

Paul.
(PS - Also a reminder, anyone moving to the 4.6 libs (from libs earlier than 4.5.6)- if you are using Relay Servers, be sure to upgrade your relay servers as well - instructions in the 4.5.6 release notes - http://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/release-4-5-6/ )

As a further heads up folks - it is looking like the 4.5.6 server release may get delayed until early next week. This is to allow us to create a proper mechanism for controlling with specific versions of Lobby Services are active at a time... (right now, it is possible for both old and new lobby services to be active during an upgrade transition - and given how much lobby processing has changed in this release - that wouldn't be good).

That said - the rest of 4.5.6 is ready - so we are going to be doing a bit of an incremental roll-out...

• We are starting to release the 4.5.6 Client Libraries today
• We are also making the 4.5.6 Relay Servers available (on our existing 4.5.5 servers) <- this is a simple feature gate for us to enable.

Then, once the 4.5.6 servers (with the new Lobby Servers and a few other fixes) are available, we will release them... that should be either late this week, or more likely early next week).

Anyway, just FYI...

Paul.

Hi folks,

We've got shiny new Relay Servers coming in release 4.5.6. They work better and faster - but unfortunately aren't compatible with our old libs.

Read all the details in our release notes - together with our recommended migration approach:

https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/release-4-5-6/

And note - the old relay servers will continue to work and be available for at least a year. We do highly recommend that you upgrade though!

Paul.
(PS - We're still in final testing, but the release should be this week...)

Hi Jose,

Sounds like you want to look into our Presence feature.

Presence is designed to let users know when their friends are online. You can think of it like the old Xbox Live friends feature - where you can see which of your friends are online - and optionally what they are doing.

And Presence uses RTT - so users will be notified in realtime when the presence information of a followed user changes.

Presence works with Friends, Groups, and arbitrary lists of users.

More details here - http://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/apiref/#capi-presence

Hope that helps!

Paul.

Hmm, I actually am not sure why sampleData[1] works.

I would have thought the correct syntax would have be sampleData["1"] and data["1"] ?

No?

Hi Fabio,

The full roadmap on this is still in progress.

We do have an API now that allows you to upload cloud code scripts.

It's part of our Builder API - and you can request it via our support channel.

The script management API is still a V1 version - in that you manage scripts individually. We have plans to evolve the API so that you can upload zipped packaged to be synced with the scripts - in a similar fashion to what you can do via the web portal.

Although this is taking longer than planned, we wanted to ensure that we built the new support on a solid foundation. So we've added cloud code includes, folders, new script management screens, improvements to performance and caching, etc.

The Visual Studio plug-in is still on our radar - we just need to ensure that the proper API foundation is in place.

Anyway - if you are interested in getting ahold of the builder API, definitely message our support team.

Cheers!

Paul.

See our GameSparks Migration FAQ.

Hi folks,

brainCloud 4.8.0 is now live!

4.8 adds the following features:

• Script Search - You can now search for cloud code scripts by name – across all your folders.
• Facebook Limited Login Friend Support - we can now retrieve the user's list of friends, and copy them to the internal friends lists, during Facebook Limited Login authentication
• Account Migration Support - we've added APIs to make it easier to dynamically migrate users from other apps (or platforms!)
• Edit User Email Identities - you can know edit a user's email identity via the Design Portal
• And more!

See the full release notes for more details.

Also - head here for the list of prior releases.

Feedback welcome - and happy coding!

Paul.

Hi folks,

Heads up that the upcoming privacy changes in iOS 14.5 will affect pretty much anyone that currently offers Facebook Login for their apps.

To support developers - we are adding support for Facebook Limited Login to brainCloud 4.7 - which will be released this month.

More details here - http://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/apple-ios-14-5-privacy-facebook-limited-login-mode/

Hope that helps folks!

Paul.

Apologies but no - there isn't currently a way to have refunds appear in the transaction logs for users in the portal.

Paul.

Hi Davis,

brainCloud does not currently support processing of refunds.

You could potentially create an owned custom entity collection to store the details of refunded collections in - so that you would have an entry against that user.

Note - you could also use a user entity for such data - but custom entities have the advantage of being globally searchable -- i.e. you can easily search for all refunds in the system.

Note - global entities are less ideal - they don't scale as well. Not recommended for data associated with users that could conceivably scale over time.

Paul.

Hi Lee,

You can schedule jobs in brainCloud using the ScheduleRuleScriptMinutes() or ScheduleRunScriptMillisUTC() calls - http://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/apiref/#capi-script-schedulerunscriptminutes

And those jobs can reschedule themselves to run again at another time.

You can find an example scheduler script here: https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/cloud-code-central/handy-cloud-code-scripts/scriptscheduler-script/

Hope that helps!

Paul.

Hi folks,

brainCloud 4.6 is now live!

The biggest change is that we've upgraded our MongoDB abstraction layers to be compatible with MongoDB 4.X going forward. All without affecting the brainCloud APIs that our customers use.

In addition, there are a few cool new features including:

• Script API Usage Stats - makes it easier to understand the performance and cost implications of your scripts
• SAML End-user authentication - for those writing apps that require SAML authentication
• Random Custom Entities API - great for those writing custom selection or matchmaking services
• API Keys System - a foundational component for our new Builder APIs, coming soon

In addition, there are mucho improvements to the client libraries including:

• Greatly improved RTT connection handling
• Removed tons of previously deprecated methods (so the client libs are now cleaner and leaner!)

For all the details, see the release notes here - https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/release-4-6/

Feedback welcome!

Paul.
(PS - Also a reminder, anyone moving to the 4.6 libs (from libs earlier than 4.5.6)- if you are using Relay Servers, be sure to upgrade your relay servers as well - instructions in the 4.5.6 release notes - http://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/release-4-5-6/ )