No Shadows present when switching build mode to Android

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve started a new project in Unity, and set up a simple scene. The shadows work fine.

However, when I switch the platform to Android, all the shadows disappear, like they’ve been turned off.

Things I’ve checked/done:

  • Increased the shadow distance for Android in Quality Settings. No effect.
  • Changed Graphics Emulation to No Emulation. No effect.
  • Checked that all Lights and Objects are casting and receiving shadows.
  • Switching back to PC platform shows shadows. Switching back to Android has no effect.
  • Tried building and running the project on Android, shadows are still not present.

I am starting to wonder if this is a bug. Is there anything else that I have not tried that could be the cause?

2

Have you tried both deferred and forward rendering?

Also, keep in mind that realtime shadows are expensive on mobile.

3

So, in the end I just exported everything into a blank new project, and shadows seem to appearing.

No idea what the problem was, so I’d guess this was done down to some sort of bug?