Universal Windows Platform authentication

[novel ravine]

Hi there!

I was just looking at the documentation for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and oof yes it does seem like it is incompatible with the web based Unity Player Account Login flow and there isn't any way around that as UWP apps can't use IP loopback address to bind to a port that other apps can connection to.

i.e. meaning a web browser can't call back to the app once the user has signed in

I think you could probably solve for this by:

1. Signing in the user Anonymously.
2. Using AuthenticationService.Instance.LinkWithUnityAsync() to Link acounts, rather than using Sign In.
3. Use a **Cloud Code **function that runs when a Signed In event is fired and when it gets one sends a Push Message to the game client using the Player ID from the Sign In event, which the game client is configured to listen for.

Obviously this requires more work than something like signing in Anonymously and using Username and Password, and you would need to handle logic for accounts where a player had already linked an account (which might be non-trivial).

It would obviously better if this was handled automatically in a way that was compatible with UWP. We are looking at improving Unity Gaming Services event handling in the future, which would both simply this and allow us to change how the web based Unity Player Account Login works to address this issue, by using sockets rather than relying on a IP loopback to bind to a port.

Relevant documentation for :

• Anonymous Sign in: https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/authentication/manual/use-anon-sign-in
• Link Player Account to Anonynous account: https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/authentication/manual/unity-player-accounts#Update_a_player_from_anonymous_to_a_Unity_Player_Account
• Sign In Event: https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/cloud-code/manual/triggers/concepts/supported-ugs-events#Signed_in
• Send Push Messages from Cloud Code: https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/cloud-code/manual/modules/how-to-guides/push-messages#Send_messages_to_players

^ Sorry, this was in response to this thread, but apparently making it a thread lost the connection to the post by @wary nimbus it was in response to: #archived-unity-gaming-services message

[wary nimbus]

Hi,
I did look at loopback capability of UWP a few days before, it did not work.

And yes, I did think of username and password but I needed an easy way for user to recover the password so I migrated the project to playfab, it works great.

Thanks for your reply.

[novel ravine]

Thanks for the feedback!

To clarify to help understand what we should focus on improving next, did you use email based recovery for username and password, and was the lack of out-of-the-box support for that a driving reason, or is there something else we could have done better?

[wary nimbus]

Yeah that's right , Playfab has an out of the box support for user password recovery, it handles sending a password reset email to the user and changing it, which wasn't available at present in UGS auth.

I had to migrate cloud save too from unity's cloud save to playfab due to this.