Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Disable OpenFeint in Android for Rooted Phones

I really despise OpenFeint integration in any of my games, I noticed on Play store there was an app called CloseFeint which would disable it but the comments aren't great for it.

I therefore looked into it, it is adding a few entries to my hosts file.

127.0.0.1 api.openfeint.com
127.0.0.1 *.openfeint.com
127.0.0.1 *.scoreloop.com

If you know anything about hosts file, you'll know wildcards aren't supported.

So my solution?

Get this amazing ad blocking hosts app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaway

Then if you click Settings/Your Lists you can add your own, so in there add.

openfeint.com
api.openfeint.com
gree.net
api.gree.net
scoreloop.com
api.scoreloop.com

The gree.net stuff is there because gree.net have recently bought OpenFeint and scoreloop seems to be another one.

Once you have added these, you'll have to re-apply the lists, its also good for blocking ad's in games and easy to disable if there are apps that **need** access to OpenFeint in order to work.

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