Essential Kit (V3) (a.k.a Cross-Platform Native Plugins : Essential Kit), a true cross platform tool for Unity which provides unique and unified way to access native functionality on mobile platforms.
Supports mobile platforms iOS 15+ (till iOS 17, iOS 18 in progress) | Android 21+ ( till API 35)
As promised, all customers get Ads Kit v1 for Free - No Code Required!
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What’s new!
Version 3 vs Version 2 | Upgrade from V2 | Release Notes
For any questions related to upgrade please contact our support
Important links
Unity Forum Thread | Tutorials | API Reference | Support
Highlights
• Unified API design | Never write code per platform
• Easy installation
• No knowledge of native platform services is required
• Simulate most feature behavior in the Editor
• Generate Android manifest and permissions as per feature usage
• Automatically adds required capabilities on iOS
• Only select features you need
• Complete ASMDEF
• Full source code is included
• Detailed tutorials with native platform setup
• Unity cloud build and batch mode compatible
• Actively supported since 2015
Features
Address Book - Access contacts of the user
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Read contacts from user’s address book
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Apply constraints to have certain attributes like email, phone number etc
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Supports pagination
App Updater - Prompt version updates to user
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Fetch if any updates available for the app
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Prompt user to update either forcefully or optionally
Billing Services (IAP) - Privacy First In-App purchases
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Fetch Product details from store
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Supports Consumable and Non-Consumable products
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Supports Subscriptions
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Supports multiple offers per subscription
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Restore purchases
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Uses latest Store Kit v2 on iOS and Billing Client 7.1.1 on Android
Cloud Services - Save data in the cloud (iCloud & Saved Games)
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Sync data across devices for free
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Auto syncs based on app lifecycle
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Multiple data types supported (long, string, byte array…)
Deep Link Services - Connect your content/screen with a url
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Supports Universal links (or App Links)
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Supports Schemes
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Seamless access for deep link data
Extras (Utilities)
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Open application settings
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Open store page
Game Services - Let your players compete!
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Authentication (Game Center on iOS, Google Play Services on Android)
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Submit scores in leaderboards
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Report progress for achievements
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Custom leaderboards & Achievements user-interface support
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Attach tags (context) to leaderboard scores
Media Services - Interact with media content
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Select media content
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Capture media content
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Save media content
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Permission-less implementation (where ever applicable)
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Multiple media content types supported
Native UI - Native alerts
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Alert dialogs
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Date Picker and Time Picker
Network Services - Know online status
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Access network connection status
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Event based
Notification Services - Notify users
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Local notifications
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Remote/Push notifications
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Time based trigger support
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Calendar based trigger support
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Custom payload keys support
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Repeat scheduling allowed
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Retains scheduled notifications after reboot
Rate My App - Get ratings
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Auto trigger based on prior settings
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Prompt store rating dialog to users
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Pre-confirmation dialog support
Sharing - Share content
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Generic share sheet support
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Message sharing
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Mail sharing
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Social sharing (Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter)
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Multiple attachments support
Web View - Access browser within Unity
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Load local webpages
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Load remote urls
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Dimensions control
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Javascript evaluation support
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Receive messages from web page to unity
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Native camera and file dialog access support
Note:
• Plugin doesn’t include Facebook SDK.
• Works with Unity Cloud Build.
• You need to add “com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json”: “2.0.0” in Packages/manifest.json
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Third Party Plugins Compatibility
• Plays nicely with Anti-Cheat Toolkit
