Reading/Writing to a text file on non-windows platforms

Questions & Answers
1

Hi, I’m writing a load/save system for my game, and as you can imagine I need to use text files. Well, I’m just about done with it, but there’s one little detail that I’ve been abstracting away for too long: reading and writing from a text file.

So, how should I go about reading/writing from/to a text file in Unity?

I’ve found plenty of solutions online, but they appear to use functions from Microsoft’s .Net platform(such as File.WriteLine(), etc.). This is fine-and-dandy on Windows platforms, but would these functions still work on other platforms? Say, for example, Android or the various consoles?

Further, where should I put my text files when I distribute the final game? Should I put them in different places for different platforms?

2

Yes, mono and unity abstract the platform specifics for you.

This code is safe to use in any platform that have access to a filesystem (not web)

var path = Application.persistentDataPath + "/data";
using (StreamWriter w = new StreamWriter(path)) {
	w.WriteLine("hello");
}