I’ve noticed that Unity 2019.4 LTS includes graphical API’s: OpenGLES 3 and Vulkan. OpenGLES 2 is missing in player settings by default.
I’m trying to migrate my project from 2019.2 to 2019.4 and I wonder is it necessary in year 2020 to support and include OpenGLES 2 in my Android build?
By the way, I have some of my players reporting that they have “pink screen” or “black screen” while trying to open the game. Does it have something to do with OpenGLES 2 support missing in my Unity game build settings?
It depends what your target audience is. If you can drop older devices (old in here means pre 2015 phones) then Vulkan and OpenGL ES 3.0 is the way to go. Added benefit with dropping OpenGL ES 2.0 is that you can use ETC2 texture compression.
The takeaway is that 88% of active devices support GLES 3+. Only 12% are limited to GLES 2. If you have limited time and resources, dropping support for GLES 2 might make sense. You may find older devices driving a disproportionate number of support requests.