Request: Allow turn based game notifications to open game app directly.

[TroelsN]

When a user taps a turn based multiplayer game notification, for example an invitation, the Google Play Games app opens instead of the turn based game app. This causes a couple of inconveniences:

1. Invitations: Google Play Games app shows little information and only allows the user to accept or decline an invitation. Example: assume a card game can be played in either friendly mode or tournament mode. Tournament mode scores users based on their performance and leaving a game prematurely incurs a penalty. In the Google Play Games app the user cannot see if an invitation is for a friendly game or a tournament game and may therefore accept an invitation for a tournament game in a situation where he doesn't want to - and subsequently be penalized for leaving the game.

2. Game updates: Instead of opening the game directly with a single tap, the user must tap twice: 1) to first open the Google Play Games app, and 2) to then open the turn based game app. He will also have to search the games listed in the Google Play Games app to locate the game that the notification pertains to.

I would like an option, possibly in the API console, to specify that my app should open directly instead of the Google Play Games app. Perhaps an optional intent filter for turn based games could achieve the same.

Regards Troels

[jorgelamb]

+1 to the notification going directly to the game, skipping Google Play Games step