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Google Play Game Services

Make your games social with Google Play game services. Add achievements, leaderboards, real-time multiplayer, and other popular features using the Google Play game services SDK. Let players sign in using their Google+ identities and share their gaming experience with friends.

Explore the Google Play Games Android API reference or visit developers.google.com/games/services for more information about integrating game services into your app.

Key Developer Features

Reward players with achievements

Add hidden and incremental achievements to encourage users to explore your game in new and interesting ways. A built-in achievement UI is available to display progress.
Add achievements to your game .

Drive engagement with leaderboards

Let players compare scores with friends using leaderboards and see how they rank against other players worldwide. Google Play game services automatically maintains daily, weekly, and all-time high scores.
Build leaderboards

Save game data to the cloud

Offer seamless game progress across all of the user's devices. Use the Saved Games API to quickly store and synchronize game data on Google's cloud infrastructure.
Save game data to the cloud

Create real-time and turn-based multiplayer games

Make your game more dynamic with simultaneous or asynchronous gameplay. Use the multiplayer APIs to send match invitations, auto-match players anonymously, and exchange data between game clients.
Develop real-time multiplayer and turn-based multiplayer games

Getting Started

1. Get the Google Play services SDK

Google Play game services is part of the Google Play services platform.

To use game services, set up the Google Play services SDK . Then, see the Getting Started guide to set up your app.

2. Run the sample

Once you've installed the Google Play services package, download the game services samples to learn how to use the major components of the Google Play game services SDK.

3. Read the documentation

Read the API Terms of Service .

Detailed documentation for the Google Play game services SDK is available at developers.google.com/games/services .

For quick access while developing your Android apps, the API reference is available here on developer.android.com.