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Essential Kit V3 is a modular plugin for Unity developers targeting mobile platforms who want to integrate native features for iOS(iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), tvOS, Android, Android PC(Beta) without juggling multiple SDKs or writing platform-specific code.

Whether you're launching a casual game or scaling a live service title, Essential Kit simplifies adding in-app purchases, cloud save, leaderboards, achievements, push notifications, local notifications, deep linking, address book access, app shortcuts, app update prompts, rating, background task execution, media capture and sharing, native UI dialogs, real-time network monitoring, and in-app web views—all through a unified, mobile-optimized API for Unity.

| Earlier known as Cross-Platform Native Plugins: Essential Kit

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✅ Future Ready

Supports latest OS versions — works with iOS 18 and Android API Level 35
Minimum Deployment — compatible with devices running iOS 15+ and Android 5.0 (API Level 21) and above

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Used by 25,000+ developers worldwide

🎉 New Features 🎉

App Shortcuts – Add shortcuts for app icons dynamically
Task Services – Run tasks in the background seamlessly
Support tvOS, Android PC (Beta)

🎉 Upcoming

On popular demand, we started working for Android PC Support

🎁 Bonus for Customers!

We Open Sourced Ads Kit - This helps in integrating Ads in your games easily! (No code required!)

✨ Highlights

✔ Unified API Design – Write one codebase for all platforms!

✔ Easy Installation – Set up in minutes

✔ No Native Knowledge Required – We handle the complexity

✔ Editor Simulation – Test most features without a device

✔ Auto Manifest Generation – No need to manually modify for Android/iOS settings

✔ Selective Features – Include only what you need to keep builds lightweight

✔ Complete ASMDEF Support – Improved project organization

✔ Full Source Code Included – Transparency and flexibility

✔ Detailed Tutorials – Step-by-step guides for setup

✔ Works with Unity Cloud Build & Batch Mode

✔ Actively Supported Since 2015 🚀

📌 Important Links

Installation Guide | Upgrade Guide

Unity Forum Thread | Tutorials | API Reference | Support | Roadmap

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🔥 Features

📒 Address Book – Access User Contacts

Fetch contacts from the user's address book
Apply constraints (e.g., must include email, phone number)
Supports pagination for large contact lists

📌 App Shortcuts – Quick Access from App Icon

Dynamically add/remove shortcuts for app icons
Customize shortcuts with icons & actions

📢 App Updater – Keep Users on the Latest Version

Detect if an update is available for the app
Prompt users to update optionally or forcefully

🛒 Billing Services (IAP) – Secure In-App Purchases

Fetch product details from stores
Supports Consumable, Non-Consumable and Subscription In-App product types
Handles Multiple Offers for Consumables, Non-Consumables and Subscriptions with single API
Restore purchases with interactive and non-interactive support
Uses StoreKit v2 (for iOS) and Billing Client 8.0.0 (for Android)
Supports Promo code redeemed purchases

☁️ Cloud Services – Sync Data Seamlessly

Sync game data across devices for free
Auto-syncs with iCloud (for iOS) & Saved Games (for Android)
Supports multiple data types (long, string, byte array, etc.)

🔗 Deep Link Services – Smart Linking to Content

Supports Universal Links (for iOS) & App Links (for Android)
Works with custom URL schemes
Retrieve deep link data easily

🏆 Game Services – Competitive Features for Players

Authentication (Game Center for iOS, Google Play Game Services for Android)
Leaderboards – Submit and display scores
Achievements – Track and reward player progress
Custom UI Support for Leaderboards & Achievements
Attach Tags to leaderboard scores for better context tracking

📷 Media Services – Handle Images & Videos

Select, Capture, Save media content
Works with multiple file formats
No additional permissions required where applicable

🖥️ Native UI – Platform-Specific Dialogs & Pickers

Native alert dialogs with text fields & buttons
Date & Time Pickers

🌐 Network Services – Detect Connectivity

Check online status at runtime
Event-based updates when network status changes

🔔 Notification Services – Keep Users Engaged

Local & Push Notifications
Supports time-based & calendar-based triggers
Custom payload keys for advanced use cases
Repeat Scheduling and Persistence after reboot

⭐ Rate My App – Encourage Store Ratings

Auto-prompt users based on pre-set conditions
Native store rating dialogs
Optional pre-confirmation dialog

📤 Sharing – Seamless Content Sharing

Generic share sheet
Share via Messages, Email, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter
Supports multiple attachments

⏳ Task Services – Run Tasks in Background Efficiently

Keep tasks running even when the app is backgrounded
Auto-handles background processing quota expiration

🛠️ Utilities – Essential Tools

Open application settings
Open app store page

🌍 Web View – Integrated In-App Browser

Load local & remote webpages
Supports custom dimensions
Evaluate JavaScript inside WebView
Receive messages from web pages
Access native file dialogs & camera from WebView

🎯 Includes Ads Support (can have mediation) from Ads Kit

📌 Notes

Add "com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json": "2.0.0" (or higher) to Packages/manifest.json
For tvOS platform support, features like Address Book, App Shortcuts, Media Library, Web View, Date Picker and Sharing are not supported as these are natively not supported or allowed by the platform. But rest of the features are supported and unsupported features has null implementations ready.

📈 Upgrade Strategy

We regularly update the plugin to stay compliant with evolving platform guidelines, OS changes, and industry standards. A minimal upgrade fee is applied for each major version.

🔍 More info

💡 Why Choose Us?

✅ Custom-Coded & Privacy-First – No third-party dependencies

✅ Fastest Native API Updates – Always the first to adopt latest changes

✅ Automated Setup – Manifest generation, dependencies, and post-processing

✅ Future-Proof – Open-sourcing major components to avoid vendor lock-in

📦 Third-Party Compatibility

Works seamlessly with Anti-Cheat Toolkit

❓ Not convinced yet?

If you’re not ready to dive into the full Essential Kit, try the free Essential Kit Lite. It includes fully-featured Sharing, Rate My App, App Shortcuts, Address Book, Native UI, and more - all working seamlessly on iOS and Android.

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Essential Kit – The Ultimate Mobile Starter Kit for Game Developers!

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Essential Kit V3 - IAP, Leaderboards, Cloud Save, Notifications, Gallery & More