Presence
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Overview
AccelByte Cloud's Presence service enables players to see what other players are doing. Presence can show players if their friends are online or offline, and if they're available to play together. We use WebSocket to ensure that a player's presence status is updated in real-time. This service includes two main features:
- Set User Presence allows clients to set a player's availability and activity. There are four availability status options: Offline, Available, Busy, and Invisible. Activity status is customizable and can include Playing a Game, In Lobby, In a Match, or In Party Looking For Members.
- Get Friend Presence allows clients to show players what their friends are doing. Clients can display a player's availability and activity status to their friends, so that players can invite friends that aren't busy to play together.
If the service is successful, when a client sets a player's availability code and status, that status will be visible to that player's friends.