Get a user ID from Google Play Services?

Question

Is there any way that we can get a Google Play ID (number, string, whatever) from a particular user when utilizing Google Play Services?

Answer 1

So the Games.Players class is deprecated and nobody gave a summarised solution to get the entire player object that allows to get the player ID, eventually. Here is what I've sorted out:

GoogleSignInAccount account;
PlayersClient playerClient;
Player player;
String playerId;

account = GoogleSignIn.getLastSignedInAccount(this);
if (account == null) {
    // do sign-in here
}

// Later:

playerClient = Games.getPlayersClient(this, account);
Task<Player> playerTask = playerClient.getCurrentPlayer();
player = playerTask.getResult();
if(player != null) {
    playerId = player.getPlayerId();
}

Answer 2

For Google Play Game Services you can use:

String playerId = Games.Players.getCurrentPlayerId(getApiClient());

Answer 3

It depends on the service you are trying to access. Here is the relevant class Player for Google Play Games: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/games/Player.html

And the relevant class People from Google Plus: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/plus/model/people/package-summary.html

Finally, there is AdvertisingIdClient for the Google Mobile Ads platform: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/ads/identifier/AdvertisingIdClient.html