We'll now take a quick look at some of the other types of online services that games on mobile devices typically connect to. While we won't be covering these in depth, it's still worth giving them a mention in order to form a better picture of what is possible.
Social gaming networks such as Apple's Game Center or cross-platform solutions such as Scoreloop or OpenFeint have become commonplace in many mobile games. In the following sections we will look at some of the possibilities we have available in Marmalade projects for these types of services.
One of the most well-known social gaming systems in the mobile games world has to be Apple's Game Center (http://www.apple.com/game-center/). Unsurprisingly, this system is solely devoted to iOS-based devices, so if you are developing a game for iOS this is probably going to be your first choice for support.