Game Center not authenticating using Swift

Question

I\'m trying to authenticate the local player using swift, but every time I get a false value for the .authenticated property. Here is the code I\'m using, it is called by th

Answer 1

This issue has been resolved by Apple - just call:

GKLocalPlayer.localPlayer()

Previously, the issue was that GKLocalPlayer() does not return the GKLocalPlayer singleton, but instead returns a new GKLocalPlayer instance.

If you were on the Xcode 6 BETA, you could add a C function or Objective-C method that returns the real GKLocalPlayer singleton, then use this in Swift. This is the gist of my workaround (with bad naming conventions):

In an Objective-C header:

GKLocalPlayer *getLocalPlayer(void);

In an Objective-C implementation:

GKLocalPlayer *getLocalPlayer(void) {
    return [GKLocalPlayer localPlayer];
}

In your bridging header:

#import "ThatHeader.h"

Then whenever you need to access the GKLocalPlayer singleton in Swift, you can just use getLocalPlayer() instead of GKLocalPlayer(). It's probably a better idea to stick that in an method of a GKLocalPlayer category.

However, this is no longer necessary as detailed above.