Essential Kit (V3) - The Ultimate Mobile Starter Kit for Game Developers!

A true cross-platform tool for Unity that provides a unified and simplified way to access native functionality on mobile platforms.

(Earlier known as Cross-Platform Native Plugins: Essential Kit)

✅ Future Ready

• Supports iOS 18 & Android API 35
• Minimum Deployment: iOS 15+, Android API 21+

🌟 450+ five-star reviews

Used by 25,000+ developers worldwide

🎉 New Features 🎉

• App Shortcuts – Add shortcuts for app icons dynamically
• Task Services – Run tasks in the background seamlessly

🎉 Coming Soon

• tvOS Support

🎁 Bonus for Customers!

All Essential Kit customers get Ads Kit for FREE! (No code required!)

📌 Important Links

Unity Forum Thread

Tutorials

API Reference

Support

Upgrade Guide

✨ 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 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 🚀

🔥 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 items
• Handles Subscriptions & Multi-Tier Offers
• Restore purchases
• Uses StoreKit v2 (iOS) and Billing Client 7.1.1 (Android)

☁️ Cloud Services – Sync Data Seamlessly

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

🔗 Deep Link Services – Smart Linking to Content

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

🏆 Game Services – Competitive Features for Players

• Authentication (Game Center on iOS, Google Play Services on 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 from Ads Kit

📌 Notes:

• Plugin does not include Facebook SDK
• Add "com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json": "2.0.0" (or higher) to Packages/manifest.json

📈 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 details: Upgrade Strategy

💡 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

Questions? Contact our support team

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

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