PPReader

PPReader Native Extension for the Defold Game Engine

This library helps to read Unity PlayerPrefs file as a Lua table.

Possible use cases:

• If you want to update your Unity game with Defold version of the game and the user's progress is stored in PlayerPrefs.

Platforms

• iOS
• macOS
• Android

Setup

You can use the PPReader extension in your own project by adding this project as a Defold library dependency. Open your game.project file and in the dependencies field under project add:

https://github.com/AGulev/ppreader/archive/master.zip

Or point to the ZIP file of a specific release.

Android

Your Package name must be the same as your package name in Unity version of the game. Game apk must be signed with the same Certificate and Private key as Unity version of the apk. Forum post how to convert your Unity Certificate and Private key for using with Defold.

iOS

Your Bundle Identifier must be the same as your bundle identifier in Unity version of the game. For the signing process, you must use the same Code Signing Identity and Provisioning profile as for Unity version of the game.

macOS

Your Bundle Identifier must be the same as your bundle identifier in Unity version of the game. For the signing process, you must use the same Code Signing Identity and Provisioning profile as for Unity version of the game.

Add next lines to your game.project file:

[ppreader]
company_name = YourCompanyName
product_name = YourProductName

Where YourCompanyName is the name of the company from your Unity project (Project Settings->Player->Company Name) and YourProductName is the name of the product from your Unity project (Project Settings->Player->Product Name).

API

ppreader.get()

Returns table with PlayerPrefs values and path to the file:

local ppreader = require("ppreader.ppreader")

local player_prefs, path_to_the_pp_file = ppreader.get()
pprint(player_prefs) -- Example:
--{
-- UnityGraphicsQuality = 3,
-- field = "string",
-- unity.player_sessionid = "your_session_id",
-- scores = 100,
-- unity.cloud_userid = "your_cloud_user_id",
-- New item = "",
-- some_FloatField = 2.3303999900818,
-- unity.player_session_count = "6",
-- SomeIntField = 100,
-- some_string_field = "some_sctring_for example-just-test@"
--}
print(path_to_the_pp_file) -- Example: /Users/your_user_name/Library/Preferences/unity.TestCompany.TestProduct.plist

Special thanks

PPReader library uses XML2LUA.

Issues and suggestions

If you have any issues, questions or suggestions please create an issue or contact me: me@agulev.com Feel free to make a pull request if you know how to improve the code.