Essential Kit - Mobile (iOS & Android)

Essential Kit (V3) (a.k.a Cross-Platform Native Plugins : Essential Kit), a true cross platform tool for Unity which provides unique and unified way to access native functionality on mobile platforms.

Future Ready - Supports iOS 18 & Android API 35

Min Deployment - iOS 15+, Android API 21+

🎉 As promised, all customers get Ads Kit v1 for Free - No Code Required!

🌟 450+ five-star reviews | Used by 25,000+ developers worldwide

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Version 3 vs Version 2 | Upgrade from V2 | Release Notes

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Important links

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Highlights

• Unified API design | Never write code per platform

• Easy installation

• No knowledge of native platform services is required

• Simulate most feature behavior in the Editor

• Generate Android manifest and permissions as per feature usage

• Automatically adds required capabilities on iOS

• Only select features you need

• Complete ASMDEF

• Full source code is included

• Detailed tutorials with native platform setup

• Unity cloud build and batch mode compatible

• Actively supported since 2015

Features

Address Book - Access contacts of the user

• Read contacts from user's address book
• Apply constraints to have certain attributes like email, phone number etc
• Supports pagination

App Updater - Prompt version updates to user

• Fetch if any updates available for the app
• Prompt user to update either forcefully or optionally

Billing Services (IAP) - Privacy First In-App purchases

• Fetch Product details from store
• Supports Consumable and Non-Consumable products
• Supports Subscriptions
• Supports multiple offers per subscription
• Restore purchases
• Uses latest Store Kit v2 on iOS and Billing Client 7.1.1 on Android

Cloud Services - Save data in the cloud (iCloud & Saved Games)

• Sync data across devices for free
• Auto syncs based on app lifecycle
• Multiple data types supported (long, string, byte array...)

Deep Link Services - Connect your content/screen with a url

• Supports Universal links (or App Links)
• Supports Schemes
• Seamless access for deep link data

Extras (Utilities)

• Open application settings
• Open store page

Game Services - Let your players compete!

• Authentication (Game Center on iOS, Google Play Services on Android)
• Submit scores in leaderboards
• Report progress for achievements
• Custom leaderboards & Achievements user-interface support
• Attach tags (context) to leaderboard scores

Media Services - Interact with media content

• Select media content
• Capture media content
• Save media content
• Permission-less implementation (where ever applicable)
• Multiple media content types supported

Native UI - Native alerts

• Alert dialogs
• Date Picker and Time Picker

Network Services - Know online status

• Access network connection status
• Event based

Notification Services - Notify users

• Local notifications
• Remote/Push notifications
• Time based trigger support
• Calendar based trigger support
• Custom payload keys support
• Repeat scheduling allowed
• Retains scheduled notifications after reboot

Rate My App - Get ratings

• Auto trigger based on prior settings
• Prompt store rating dialog to users
• Pre-confirmation dialog support

Sharing - Share content

• Generic share sheet support
• Message sharing
• Mail sharing
• Social sharing (Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter)
• Multiple attachments support

Web View - Access browser within Unity

• Load local webpages
• Load remote urls
• Dimensions control
• Javascript evaluation support
• Receive messages from web page to unity
• Native camera and file dialog access support

Note:

• Plugin doesn't include Facebook SDK.

• Works with Unity Cloud Build.

• You need to add "com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json": "2.0.0" or higher in Packages/manifest.json

Upgrade Strategy

We provide ongoing updates to ensure the plugin stays in line with evolving platform guidelines, OS requirements, and industry standards. To keep your product current and supported, we charge a minimal upgrade fee for each major version release.

More details here

Why Choose Us?

• Custom-coded and privacy-first: We don’t rely on third-party plugins, ensuring full control over your product’s functionality and privacy.
• Fast updates: We’re often the first to integrate updates for native libraries (e.g., StoreKit 2, Billing Client V6, V7).
• Extensive automation: Includes features like manifest generation, dependency handling, and build post-processing.
• Future plans: We’re working on open-sourcing major parts of the plugin to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure long-term flexibility.

Third Party Plugins Compatibility

• Plays nicely with Anti-Cheat Toolkit

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