📱┃mobile

[pearl marlin]

🤷‍♂️ well double check what product id is used when this error occurs

[karmic rivet]

see the product id s are same as store

@pearl marlin

[pearl marlin]

the error stack above is from an input (i presume a button) so check that

i can see your code uses consts to add the products dont ping me for the obvious

[karmic rivet]

now i am doing this still no result

[karmic rivet]

its a button for In App Purchase its give me no product found error because after adding product and initialized, there are 0 product when i get by this log

[pearl marlin]

I dont see anything wrong with the building here myself

[karmic rivet]

Thanks i have trying to solve this but still don't understand where the problem is

[karmic rivet]

Its solved i am building with different package name🥴

[pearl marlin]

ha well that explains it 😐

[north thunder]

no one knows about it?

[fallen compass]

it's not a mobile question that, better off asking in #1390346776804069396 - however, there are loads of tutorials and vids online about reducing overdraw

[north thunder]

I am using it for mobile.

[fallen compass]

not relevant to the problem.

[void marsh]

Hello guys, I'm desperate I'm trying to compile, but I can't because of that error. I've checked forums, but nothing helps :c
I'm building for Android and the project have google play games package, Admob package and External Dependency Manager for Unity, all in their latest versions from their respective GitHubs.
Has anyone else dealt with this who can help me?

[analog plover]

You'll have to show the full error messages

also not a good idea to install the editor to Onedrive

[void marsh]

Just like that? Or do you need more info?

[analog plover]

The first one fully, preferably as text. Use a !code paste site

[grand wind]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[void marsh]

https://paste.mod.gg/kotwnpthergr/0

[analog plover]

I meant the first screenshot. This one

[void marsh]

Sorry Sorry, That's it.

https://paste.mod.gg/nqvvcmgcutpm/0

[analog plover]

Can't do much other than google the errors in that file, for example https://discussions.unity.com/t/gradle-build-issue-please-help-c/1544556 and https://github.com/playgameservices/play-games-plugin-for-unity/issues/3313

[void marsh]

Okay, bro, anyway, thank you very much for your attention. I'll continue my search.

[glossy nexus]

Can anyone help me? I built this game from 2018 and recently switched it to 2022. It is a mobile game and when I built it while it was in the 2018 version it ran smoothly on my bluestacks application and my personal phone BUT when I recently switched the unity version to 2022, fix the errors, and built it I put it on my personal phone and bluestacks and both of them didnt perform as well as the 2018 one.

[tired lily]

Help you with what? Profile it, find what has become slow, and fix it

[glossy nexus]

Thats the thing I dont know I feel like its the version im using but I need that version

[tired lily]

nobody knows what's slow with your build, that's why you have to profile it. Make a dev build, deploy to your phone, and use the profiler to see what's eating your performance

[neon thicket]

#1180170818983051344

[peak nest]

Hi everyone! Has anyone seen a good guide on how to implement Game Center ID authentication in Unity? I’ve followed official guides from Unity Documentation and it does work in my Editor, but for some reason I’m getting codesigning errors when trying to build in Xcode.

[analog plover]

An implementing guide won't help with the errors. Look those up separately

[valid tulip]

The ads work on the pc when testing in game and simulator, but when I build the .apk and test it on my phone, it doesn't show any ads (ads are in test mode)

[tired lily]

check logcat. Ads in the editor aren't very useful because the actual ad sdks aren't running, it's faked and nothing more than a cursory config check

[valid tulip]

what is logcat, and how do I check it?

[tired lily]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.mobile.android-logcat@1.4/manual/index.html

[valid tulip]

this is what I get (using legacy advertisments btw)

[tired lily]

there is no other info in the log around that? not necessarily error messages

[brittle parcel]

we are using legacy ads, is that the issue?

we're trying to switch unity versions to use a different package

both of our phones are android 12+

[tired lily]

I have no idea what the issue is if that's the only thing you have to go on. I would guess your config on the ad dashboard is not correct. I doubt there just a single error message and nothing else though, so you are filtering incorrect or not showing enough

[brittle parcel]

does legacy ads not work for android 12+ or no?

[silent scarab]

Hey, sorry to barge in, new here in the discord, i have one question about ads, do you guys think is possible to make a living out of ads (mobile game + ads + iap) as a solo dev? Anyone here is doing that? Trying to create a business plan but on the internet you only find comments like: “the mobile market does not exist for indies, is all doom and gloom”

[analog plover]

It's not a feasible plan

[silent scarab]

Right I imagined that was something really difficult due to comments i found researching about it, but i would like to know more, why is not feasible? Because of ltv vs cpi?

[analog plover]

F2P mobile field is saturated by massive companies that can put literally millions into marketing and optimizing their revenue. It's somewhere between very difficult to impossible to compete against that

I'm sure there are examples of indies who have succeeded but the chances are very, very low

[silent scarab]

Got it, thanks, i will have it in mind

Have you tried released something f2p on mobile? Even if it failed its good info anyways

I tried back in 2014 and was getting around 100usd per month, just enough to be able to actually take the money out of the ad provider… a 100usd per month would still be a nice reward for a hobby

I know that a lot of things changed since 2014… thats why i kind want to update myself

[pearl marlin]

Why do people keep trying to use legacy ads

[analog plover]

Fortunately I haven't learned this lesson the hard way 😅

[valid tulip]

these are the only error messages from unity

[pearl marlin]

usually its due to missing dependencies. make sure EDU is installed and that you can force resolve android dependencies in editor.

anyway use levelplay if you have no good reason not to

[brittle parcel]

does levelplay work on unity 6.1 though?

because i googled it and it says it works on 2021.3

[fallen compass]

Levelplay is the current, active, sdk.. it will work on 6, 6.1, 6.2

[pearl marlin]

you probably miss understood something, level play is the current ads mediation framework supported from unity
fully working on many unity versions including 6

[brittle parcel]

does it fully work? Is it easy to implement and change the code from ads legacy?

[pearl marlin]

it will take some work but means you arent using the old lib

[brittle parcel]

is it 100% certain that it works in 6.1? I asked chat gpt aswell and it said it doesnt work

and we get an error

let me find it rq

[pearl marlin]

Check the fucking docs

Don't ask ai

It should be fine on 6+

[valid tulip]

link to the docs?

[brittle parcel]

"using UnityEngine.Advertisements;"
unity said it doesnt exist or something like that

[valid tulip]

maybe a refrence script could help

[pearl marlin]

https://developers.is.com/ironsource-mobile/unity/unity-plugin/#step-1

All explained with examples for all ad types

Perhaps people don't know it used to be iron source

Just pissed me off that ai is somehow the new way to search...

[pearl marlin]

Check the doc pages above and follow this. Some namespaces changed recently so ai will probably be wrong and make shit up

[brittle parcel]

we asked in #💻┃unity-talk and not a single person replied

we were completely ghosted

and the second someone else asked a question 3 people replied to them 💀

[pearl marlin]

Not many know mobile stuff well. I've used it for 5+ years so I can assist

[brittle parcel]

alr thanks

[brittle parcel]

yooo

have you uploaded any games on play store?

this is our first time making a game in unity IN GENERAL

[pearl marlin]

From my work yes, no I won't share, no I won't accept friend request

[brittle parcel]

🙁

also on average

how many downloads does a game get per month with ZERO advertising?

[silent scarab]

In 2014 i was receiving around 4k of downloads with zero advertising (sending only to close friends and letting a organic grow happen)

Now days i heard that there are games with zero downloads

But if you announce in reddit, facebook, YouTube, for free, by posting it in comments/posts, you gonna get a few hundreds

But hey, if you are a student and dont need money to survive, just go and do your game, it will be a good portfolio in the future, dont worry about downloads

[brittle parcel]

yea but i want to make atleast 25$ to pay for the google play account fee

idc about making bank

i just need to pay back the fee

[brittle parcel]

is there any sort of reference script we could use to see how we like- understand kind of what we have to do?

[pearl marlin]

The iron source docs explain how to init and utilize each ad type. I can't share anything I've written for it unfortunately

[valid tulip]

I cant find them there is 5 lines of code and the "SdkInitializationCompletedEvent" has an error: "LevelPlay.OnInitSuccess += SdkInitializationCompletedEvent;" are there any other libraries I need to include?

[pearl marlin]

What's the actual error...

[valid tulip]

doesnt exist in the current context

or scope

[pearl marlin]

That's an event subscription btw, you can define a function in the class with that name

Perhaps you should learn about c# events https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/events/

[valid tulip]

thank you could you please send an example scripts so I know what to expect

[pearl marlin]

nope

[brittle parcel]

Is there any example script that we could find? Chatgpt and other AIs seem to be... not very helpful with programming in unity and putting ads

Are there any in depth tutorials post-unity buying ironsource?

[pearl marlin]

I dont know what to tell you more than following the integration steps + init steps and then checking each ad type page to learn how to load and show each ad type
https://developers.is.com/ironsource-mobile/unity/interstitial-integration-unity/

I dont know about any external resources I did not use any myself

[brittle parcel]

I read most of that, I get that but it's our first time using unity and C# in general, so we don't know much

Do we code it from scratch or is there any guide on that?

[pearl marlin]

Its unfortunatley just how it is, if the sdk is too complex for you then you need to strengthen your knowledge of c# first

[brittle parcel]

We're just making this game as a little test

And see if we can get any downloads

How simple would it be for us to make the code from scratch?

[pearl marlin]

Check the demo app which is hopefully updated: ~~https://github.com/ironsource-mobile/Mediation-Demo-Apps~~

err nvm its gone 😆

As i said before, if you dont understand how to use the sdk then you need to strengthen your c# and knowledge of OO programming to do so on your own.
When you have that knowledge it will let you follow documentation like this instead of relying on "tutorials" (often known as tutorial hell)

I know the sdk has changed recently so I bet any semi old videos will be incorrect too

[brittle parcel]

Insane

Absolutely crazy

Is it relatively simple though?

So without any tutorial or anything

Is it easy to figure out?

[pearl marlin]

To me its simple. Init sdk, listen to init completion event, make ad objects, load ad, show ad

[brittle parcel]

We used unity legacy ads before this, is it any similar?

[pearl marlin]

Tbh i have forgotten its been soo long

[brittle parcel]

We had to switch because legacy ads apparently doesn't work

[pearl marlin]

anyway i dont have more to ad to this topic anymore

[brittle parcel]

It was fun realizing that after we were completely done with everything

Could you

[pearl marlin]

try following the sdk, If the page or code doesnt make sense try copy pasting the CURRENT code from the CURRENT docs into AI to have it explain things

[brittle parcel]

Tell me how many lines of code an ad initializer is with level play?

Like ballpark estimate

[pearl marlin]

its meaningless

[brittle parcel]

Alr

[brittle parcel]

What??

[pearl marlin]

"lines of code" doesnt equal complexity. Sorry but I dont want to continue this conversation.

[brittle parcel]

I know it's not equal but like 10 lines of code IS way easier and less complex than 100 lines of code for example

In most cases

[silent scarab]

Thats not accurate, but from what I am seeing from this conversation, and sorry to barge in, you need:
study programming and specially how c# works.

OR

Get a better AI

looks like you are trying to skip steps, if you skip steps, things will not work. You can rely on AI to solve these issues, but if the AI commits a mistake, you will not be able to solve it or even detect the mistake, so try to get a bit more of experience with c#

[brittle parcel]

Where do I find a better ai?

[brittle parcel]

Nono, while we don't have much experience, we just want to release a game as a test and see how it goes

[valid tulip]

just bare with us I just taught him how to code 2 days ago, I just need a reference script so I know what to expect and what do to, we have been delaying the release of this game every day because of this

[valid tulip]

we are trying to build experience with this game, we are trying to ditch AI because it isn't a reliable source we came here to find experienced people to help us so we know what to do in the next game

[tired lily]

did you have some problem getting the example code working? You're more likely to get help if you post what you have and describe what the problem is

[brittle parcel]

Where is the example code? That's what we're searching for

[valid tulip]

the ShowInterstitialAd() function is being called in my logic script every 3 deaths but every time my debugger says "Interstitial not ready yet" even tho it got loaded without failure and it used to work with the legacy ads so my logic script cant be the issue

[tired lily]

if you're using levelplay, surely you are following the documentation? apparently there is a sample included in the package itself. Here is what a minute of googling got me:
https://developers.is.com/ironsource-mobile/unity/interstitial-integration-unity/#step-6
which leads to a deprecated Unity example https://github.com/ironsource-mobile/Mediation-Demo-Apps/tree/master/Unity
which leads to https://developers.is.com/ironsource-mobile/unity/unity-plugin/#step-1
and tells you
In the Package Manager’s package details view go to Samples, import the LevelPlay Sample and start digging!

[tired lily]

where you actually initialize the sdk? Are you testing in the editor or on an actual device? Assuming your script isn't the issue is a pretty bold claim currently, why do you think that?

[brittle parcel]

Editor

[valid tulip]

Cuz it worked before?

It didn't change what change was the admanager

[tired lily]

You had LevelPlay working before? I thought you were using the legacy advertisements

[valid tulip]

Legacy worked before

[brittle parcel]

We switched and rewarded ads worked in test mode

In levelplay

[tired lily]

on device?

[valid tulip]

Then it randomly

Stopped working

[brittle parcel]

In editor

Then we tried putting interstitial ads and after building it broke

[tired lily]

then you never had it working. Editor doesn't run the mobile sdks and most of the time it's barely even validating any settings

[brittle parcel]

In the editor

[valid tulip]

No when I tried to build it got stuck on the first scene

[valid tulip]

This is why we are here im looking for help

[brittle parcel]

So for us to verify if it works it needs to work on mobile after it's built?

[tired lily]

Yes

[brittle parcel]

So what is the issue?

Did we have wrong version of the SDKs, did we not run the SDKs like what happened

[valid tulip]

Right now I have narrowed the issue down to the sdks idk how to correct to the right sdks tho

The sdks are faulty and I don't know how to fix them

[tired lily]

uh your script is just straight up missing configuration. Where do you actually init level play? Where is your app key used? Where are you getting your code from?
https://pastebin.com/x5jBTLkd
https://pastebin.com/U8B6wBYw

These are the scripts in the LevelPlay example btw

[valid tulip]

In another admanager script

[valid tulip]

I got the code from nowhere I had to guess myself using what's remaining of outdated tutorials and unclear docs this server is a joke we have begging for support and all we got is "here is this link go relearn cs"

[tired lily]

cut that down into a single script for now so you don't have to worry about initialization order

[tired lily]

Start with just getting the example to work. I downloaded the sdk, installed the sample, and built it with no changes other than package name to get this. This is a test ad running on my device. Forget all tutorials and just base your code on their sample code

[valid tulip]

as I said something is wrong with the package or the SDK I have installed

[tired lily]

how did you install it? what script is complaining about the missing AdConfig?

what version of the sdk did you install?

[valid tulip]

oh nevermind I forget to set the other script as a class

now I replaced all my old scripts with these 2

how do I call the ads

[tired lily]

are you trying to get the sample to work?

[valid tulip]

yes give me a moment to replace ad unit IDs and app key

[tired lily]

no, use the default ones. They're set up to work already

build to device, make sure ads are appearing

then you replace with your own info

[valid tulip]

oh ok

how will the ads be called?

from my logic script

[tired lily]

you just press the sample project buttons to load and display ads

it sounds like you're trying to skip steps again

[valid tulip]

ah so the scripts creates buttons instead of being called

so ill comment out the lines in my logic script that call the ads since i cant build with them

[tired lily]

what logic script? Are you adding scripts to the sample project now or what?

[valid tulip]

the logic script I had before

do I just create a new project?

[tired lily]

the sample project has its own scene set up. Put the scene in the build settings as scene 0 and build. Don't change any scripts

[valid tulip]

now project empty Scene no changes to the code

shouldnt I make a canvas for the buttons tho?

[tired lily]

everything is already set up. Your scene does not look like the example scene

this can't be that hard dude. There is a scene at LevelPlay/Samples/UnityLEvelPlaySample/Scenes/LevelPlaySample. Make that the first scene in the build list in your project. Build it. Deploy to your device

[valid tulip]

there isnt a "samples" folder in LevelPlay

[tired lily]

it sounds suspiciously like you copy-pasted the scripts into your own project without actually installing the sample

how did you install the sdk?

via unitypackage or package manager?

[valid tulip]

package manager

and I got "ads Mediation" or "com.unity.services.levelplay"

[tired lily]

this was step 1 btw
https://developers.is.com/ironsource-mobile/unity/unity-plugin/#step-1

[valid tulip]

My bad Ive Imported and set the scene to the only scene I am building it rn

[valid tulip]

sent the APK to my phone and all the buttons are not interactable (grey)

[tired lily]

if you look at the example scripts, that would happen if the ads sdk didn't initialize

[tired lily]

what does logcat say?

[valid tulip]

it says alot

I cant filter all these messages

how do I filter them out

2025/08/31 11:18:02.125 18716 18744 Info Unity [LevelPlaySample] Received SdkInitializationFailedEvent with Error: LevelPlayInitError: 2070, noServerResponse

now they are interactable

I dont know what I did

[tired lily]

no fill's a common error. You didn't change any ad unit ids or the app key right?

[valid tulip]

now its fixed and it works I think it takes a while for it to load (a min or two) so while loading i attempt to play the ad and it says not ready yet cuz its not loaded

[valid tulip]

no its the scripts I imported I didnt touch it

[tired lily]

good, it's working then. Now I would implement the test suite the docs mention, swap in your ad units and test again

[valid tulip]

my app isnt available for ios I wont release on the apple store what do I replace the ios ID with?

and I wont be adding banners so I dont have an ID for that either

[tired lily]

you can probably puzzle it out looking at the example scripts, right?

[valid tulip]

let me give it a try

I removed it and replaced the IDs and added LevelPlay.SetMetaData("is_test_suite", "enable"); to the start() before everything in the sample script

[valid tulip]

no it doesnt work this time and the issue is with the ID I copy pasted

[tired lily]

did you enable test ads for your ad unit id + typically advertising id?

[valid tulip]

no I havent setup the ad unit IDs on the website myself my friend @brittle parcel so I have no idea how to do that

could the second pop up be the issue

about it not being approved

[brittle parcel]

I already checked it says we can still do test ads

[brittle parcel]

You set it on developer mode with test ads before building the game right?

[valid tulip]

what are you talking about

[brittle parcel]

When you click build app

Apk

There's a checkbox

With some "developer mode" or something like that

You checked that on right?

[valid tulip]

I have no Idea

[brittle parcel]

Vro

[valid tulip]

but it used to work with the same settings

[brittle parcel]

On phone?

[valid tulip]

yes

[brittle parcel]

Wait so at some point it worked on phone?

[valid tulip]

go read the convo up

[brittle parcel]

So it stopped working when you removed iOS id?

[tired lily]

what did the test suite say? there is more detail there

no fill is a common error and doesn't mean your config is wrong necessarily, just that no ads are available. If you didn't put your device in test mode and you can't be served normal ads atm, that makes perfect sense

[valid tulip]

I dont get it

there arent issues?

[tired lily]

what did the test suite say when you added the code the integration guide told you to add and then launched the test suite?

[valid tulip]

this?

[tired lily]

you seem extremely determined not to read anything and be hand-held through everything

instead of linking you again, I'm going to paste it here for you

[valid tulip]

ah yes

[brittle parcel]

We're just COMPLETELY new to unity and it's our first time ever using it

This is our first time making a mobile game aswell

We have 0 experience pretty much

We're trying

[pearl marlin]

I am impressed you have kept going this long 😆

[valid tulip]

to verify this is how my start() should look

    {
        LevelPlay.SetMetaData("is_test_suite", "enable");
        
        Debug.Log("[LevelPlaySample] LevelPlay.ValidateIntegration");
        LevelPlay.ValidateIntegration();

        Debug.Log($"[LevelPlaySample] Unity version {LevelPlay.UnityVersion}");

        Debug.Log("[LevelPlaySample] Register initialization callbacks");
        LevelPlay.OnInitSuccess += SdkInitializationCompletedEvent;
        LevelPlay.OnInitFailed += SdkInitializationFailedEvent;

        // SDK init
        Debug.Log("[LevelPlaySample] LevelPlay SDK initialization");
        LevelPlay.Init(AdConfig.AppKey);

        LevelPlay.LaunchTestSuite();
    }```

[tired lily]

there's a reason I highlighted the after successfully initializing LevelPlay part of that, it was a premonition

[valid tulip]

how do I do that

ow do I check if its successfully initialized

oh I found it

like this

    {
        Debug.Log($"[LevelPlaySample] Received SdkInitializationCompletedEvent with Config: {config}");
        EnableAds();
        isAdsEnabled = true;

        LevelPlay.LaunchTestSuite();
    }```

[tired lily]

and what happened when you tried that?

[valid tulip]

im building it

[tired lily]

your bundle id is definitely wrong

[brittle parcel]

Ts not that deep bro it's our first time

We're trying

I'm personally not built in with this knowledge

I wouldn't expect you anyone to know this ad stuff when it's their first time making a game

[valid tulip]

what do I do

[brittle parcel]

You built it as an APK right?

[tired lily]

don't use the definitely-not-available test bundle id

[valid tulip]

I didnt set up the levelplay I have no idea what you mean

what should I do

[tired lily]

ask your guy if he set up a package name anywhere, and if not then set a package name that isn't the default package name and try that

[valid tulip]

yes

this?

[valid tulip]

@brittle parcel

[tired lily]

and make sure you enable client test mode in the dashboard

[brittle parcel]

I don't think I did no

Although I'm not sure

@nocturne nova check ironsource

[valid tulip]

back at the ironsource website?

[brittle parcel]

Fuck wrong ping

@valid tulip

[brittle parcel]

Sorry random person I pinged

[tired lily]

wherever you're doing your ad unit configuration

[valid tulip]

this?

[valid tulip]

I did it

it works now

i had to enable test ads and add my device as a test device

[tired lily]

yes, that's typical. You will want to keep your device whitelisted (and disable the override you set above, if you set it) once you go live. Otherwise you might get real ads while testing, and that can cause you to get banned for fraud

[valid tulip]

I had to get my advertisment ID from my settings > security and privacy > more privacy settings > ads and it would be on the very bottom for the people after me doing this 🗣️

[valid tulip]

what override? this is the first test ads device

[tired lily]

you can override all devices with test ads

you wouldn't want that once you go live for obvious reasons

[valid tulip]

yea

[valid tulip]

how do I double check for that (just in case)

[tired lily]

make sure the Test Mode panel still says Client test mode not overridden

[valid tulip]

uh oh

[tired lily]

? that's fine for now, change before you launch

otherwise you need to whitelist every device you'll be testing with

[valid tulip]

its only my device

[tired lily]

nobody else will be testing the actual app?

[valid tulip]

before releasing no

[brittle parcel]

Me probably

[valid tulip]

#📱┃mobile message

[prisma lodge]

I am having trouble solving this rotation thing. Its snapping back to where it was facing. By the way, I am new to unity and I would highly appreciate your help. 🙂

[valid tulip]

what is this issue?? why cant I build I need help please

[tired lily]

What kind of help are you expecting based on the info you've provided? Yes there seems to be a rotation bug, find it and fix it

[tired lily]

Did it build before? What did you try? Try a clean build. Then try deleting library and rebuilding. Then try deleting library, re-resolving dependencies and rebuilding. Come back after you tried each of those

[brittle parcel]

He has switched out the mobile dependency resolver with a different one because we had a problem with that and we couldn't run the game or export it before, is that why it's not exporting now?

[tired lily]

did you try the things I mentioned? Why did you change the resolver exactly? The LevelPlay project comes with a specific version

[valid tulip]

Yes it used to build before but it got stuck on the first scene during building and I followed a tutorial to help with that and it fixed it but now I get this issue

[valid tulip]

I tried everything you mentioned already but ill do it again

[tired lily]

what tutorial? I don't see how that error is related to any particular scene

[valid tulip]

a different error

it used to get stuck on "resolving android dependencies"

[tired lily]

and you fixed it by doing what exactly? did you re-resolve dependencies?

[valid tulip]

he told me to disable something in the settings

auto resolution i think

[tired lily]

and then did you delete and re-resolve dependencies?

[valid tulip]

I dont think so

[tired lily]

and what happens when you manually resolve?

[valid tulip]

nothing

no pop up

no message, no warning, no error

as if im playing cookie clicker

[tired lily]

enable verbose logs in the resolver and see what it says

[valid tulip]

and now after building i get a different set of errors

[tired lily]

and what are the errors?

did you get resolution succeeded after resolving first?

[valid tulip]

no as i said

it does nothing

[tired lily]

then you're still in the "why aren't the dependencies resolving?" part of the debugging

delete dependencies, revert back to the original version of the resolver, re-resolve, clean build

[valid tulip]

how do i do that?

[tired lily]

do what?

[valid tulip]

deleting dependencies

[tired lily]

Mobile Dependency Resolver -> Android Resolver -> Delete Resolved Libraries

[valid tulip]

done

[valid tulip]

how do i find the original to revert to?

[tired lily]

how did you get the original? do that again

[valid tulip]

back to this again

[tired lily]

it's not "back", you were always here. You just turned this step off and so the build failed instaed of waiting forever for resolution to complete which apparently it is not doing

now do the original thing I mentioned at first, and I'll be really explicit this time

1. Delete resolved libraries
2. Close Unity
3. Delete the Library folder at the project root
4. Open Unity
5. Resolve manually. If you don't get resolution succeeded, enable verbose logging again and debug that step

[valid tulip]

Ive had this issue since I started this project I have tried so many things to fix this

[valid tulip]

this is the 167th time ive done this

[tired lily]

why did you ask how to delete dependencies, then?

[valid tulip]

I thought you meant the dependency resolver itself not the resolved ones

[tired lily]

what did you change between yesterday and today that caused it to stop building?

[valid tulip]

I have done the ads

[tired lily]

you said those were working. You tested in an actual build, right?

[valid tulip]

no I am trying to

but guess what

could this error hint the issue

System.IO.Path.Combine (System.String path1, System.String path2) (at <4ae50e093b6e42d3b4ec42b8ca793dac>:0)
GooglePlayServices.JavaUtilities.JavaHomeBinaryPath (System.String javaTool) (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.JavaUtilities.FindJavaTool (System.String javaTool) (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.JavaUtilities.get_JavaBinaryPath () (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.JavaUtilities.CheckJdkForApiLevel () (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.PlayServicesResolver.ResolveUnsafe (System.Action`1[T] resolutionComplete, System.Boolean forceResolution, System.Boolean isAutoResolveJob, System.Boolean closeWindowOnCompletion) (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.PlayServicesResolver+<ScheduleResolve>c__AnonStorey1E.<>m__3F () (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.PlayServicesResolver.ExecuteNextResolveJob () (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.PlayServicesResolver.ScheduleResolve (System.Boolean forceResolution, System.Boolean closeWindowOnCompletion, System.Action`1[T] resolutionCompleteWithResult, System.Boolean isAutoResolveJob) (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.PlayServicesResolver.ExecuteMenuResolve (System.Boolean forceResolution) (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)
GooglePlayServices.PlayServicesResolver.MenuForceResolve () (at <6107d0e161ea44f5b1a06a3cb63d4bc0>:0)

[tired lily]

yes

[valid tulip]

nice

what does it mean tho

[tired lily]

try to work it out based on the error and the stacktrace

[valid tulip]

what is that meant to mean

[tired lily]

what do you think that error means? Based on the message and the stack trace? That will tell you what to do next

[valid tulip]

I have no idea whats happening

[tired lily]

come on dude
ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.
GooglePlayServices.JavaUtilities.JavaHomeBinaryPath
something is wrong with your java home path. Check it

[valid tulip]

but its right

or do I check this?

[brittle parcel]

yo @tired lily you goated for helping us btw thanks

[tired lily]

those would both be wrong if that's what you are using. Unity comes with a specific jdk

[valid tulip]

I set it to the original jdk and the error is gone but Its still not building

[tired lily]

you aren't building yet, you're still in figuring out why it's not resolving

did you manage to resolve dependencies successfully?

[valid tulip]

nope

but look at this error

[tired lily]

and what version of Unity are you on? sometimes Unity uses the wrong jdk path and if you uninstall the editor, things seem like they're missing

[valid tulip]

6000.1.14f1

[tired lily]

well now you have a new issue to debug

this is what happens when you try to resolve, right?\

[valid tulip]

yes

[valid tulip]

the gradlew.bat its looking for doesnt exist

there is gradlew but not gradlew.bat

where is the extention

[tired lily]

you're in a place now where it's hard to help you debug what exactly the problem is

1. you should move your project to a directory that doesn't have any spaces in it and try again
2. there's a newer resolver version you can try
3. you can try a different Unity version

[brittle parcel]

last time we tried it didnt go.. well..

the entire project got corrupted

all the scripts werent working

[valid tulip]

how do I get a newer resolver version

[brittle parcel]

we changes version to 2021.3

NOTHING was working

literally nothing

[tired lily]

that is ancient. I mean a different 6000.1.X version

[brittle parcel]

which version would be good?

is 6.0 LTS good?

[tired lily]

https://developers.google.com/unity/archive#external_dependency_manager_for_unity

[valid tulip]

I tried that but I cancelled because of this warning

[tired lily]

is that file under Assets or Packages? that version is at least 5 years old

the unitypackage for ironsource has 1.2.185 so if you're actually using 1.2.137 something went terribly wrong

[valid tulip]

oh no

that sounds incredibly motivating

[tired lily]

did you actually revert this when I mentioned it before, or did you follow some ancient tutorial that had you install this and then never removed it?

[valid tulip]

what do you mean by "this"

[tired lily]

this part

did you undo this?

[brittle parcel]

ye we had kept a backup

we're using unity version control

[valid tulip]

no

I did not

cuz I dont know how

[tired lily]

helping you guys is absolutely excruciating

[brittle parcel]

i switched the version

[valid tulip]

I know Im soryy

[brittle parcel]

oh that nvm he didnt remove it

[tired lily]

delete any and all references to the dependency resolver, install the latest one from the link using the unitypackage, delete resolved libraries, resolve again, try to build

[valid tulip]

issue

I have both "mobileDependancyResolver" and "externalDependancyManager" folders in my assets

[tired lily]

what's the issue? this changes nothing besides making it clear you didn't read any of the README files in those folders

[valid tulip]

why does it say 1.2.186 here?

[valid tulip]

which do I delete exactly?

[tired lily]

that looks like you have the latest EDM4U installed already

[valid tulip]

thats a good thing right?

[tired lily]

why would that be good? It seems like somebody flailed around in your project and installed up to 3 different versions of it based on what you said so far

delete them all and start over

[valid tulip]

when you say "them"

what do you mean exactly?

[tired lily]

every single reference to any dependency resolver

[pearl marlin]

fyi you can install EDU via the package manager: https://openupm.com/packages/com.google.external-dependency-manager/
~~Or download the latest from: https://github.com/googlesamples/unity-jar-resolver/releases~~

but do as instructed, delete current installations of a "dependency resolver" and start over

[tired lily]

I'll be really explicit since you don't seem to have a lot of agency

1. Delete ExternalDependencyManager under Assets
2. Delete MobileDependencyResolver under Assets
3. Delete PlayServicesResolver under Assets
4. Install ExternalDependencyManager 1.2.186 using the UnityPackage from https://developers.google.com/unity/archive#external_dependency_manager_for_unity
5. Close Unity
6. Delete Library
7. Open Unity
8. Re-resolve Android dependencies

I'm going to bed, good luck gents

[valid tulip]

we appreciate your help mate

[pearl marlin]

I recommend installing things via the package manager as much as possible, it makes updating and handling plugins soo much easier
Some mobile plugins are a mess to remove or update in future.

as you just experienced, you had multiple versions shoved in your project which made it hard to remove and update

[valid tulip]

yes

[valid tulip]

Im so tired of this

[pearl marlin]

whats the gradle error? Also I do hope you are atleast on unity 2022 now. 2021 probably isnt compatible with api lvl 35.

[pearl marlin]

Hmm you dont have ironsource installed alongside level play do you? Its supported in unity 2021.3+

[valid tulip]

I dont have ironsource installed

I installed ads mediation from the package manager

[pearl marlin]

What's your min API lvl set to? I had issues in the past but moved up to android 7 which helped.

[valid tulip]

23

[pearl marlin]

Are you using the included android sdk+ grade+ jdk?

I moved to 2022 ages ago, if you cant I see no reason to be on 2021

ideally you would use the latest LTS

[valid tulip]

yes

[valid tulip]

I didnt know

[pearl marlin]

I get we often have varying requirements but if you are not restricted and you can upgrade, go to either 2022 or unity 6

If using source control its safe to try

[valid tulip]

what are you trying to say

[pearl marlin]

correction, you have LevelPlay in project, not via UPM (if you have both then fix this)

[valid tulip]

UPM?

[pearl marlin]

Upgrade unity version if there is no critical reason to be on 2021

the package manager. Unity package files are NOT the same.

[valid tulip]

will the project corrupt?

[pearl marlin]

if you are using source control like git or unity vc then its safe because you can go back in time

[valid tulip]

I was using that but stopped

[pearl marlin]

then you should start again

otherwise if you upgrade the project you cannot go back because you dont have a commit pre upgrade

(and its not possible to open a project in an older version as there is no support to downgrade assets)

[valid tulip]

okay

I will start using it

my game works all fine I just cant build it

[pearl marlin]

Yea I understand. Mobile is tricky as requirements keep changing so older unity versions start to stop working as they are not updated to fix issues anymore (without enterprise licensing anyway)

[valid tulip]

so do I upgrade to a newer editor?

or will it corrupt?

[pearl marlin]

step 1. back up project or start using git
step 2. install newer unity version (e.g. latest 2022)

step 3. open project with 2022
step 4. say yes to upgrade and wait
step 5. check game

If after this find a critical issue and you wish to go back, you can discard all changes if using git and all is great

Its why its recommended on this server so much. If a file suddently gets corrupted (e.g. scene gets fucked) you can restore it from your last commit

@valid tulip ill warn you again, make sure you either have a full backup or start using git/unity vc/some other source control before upgrading the project

[valid tulip]

I am already using unity vc and I saved it right now and i am making a copy of the project on my pc now

[pearl marlin]

then you should be good if you commited your latest changes

[valid tulip]

I switched to 6000.0.26f1 because I already had it installed and most importantly its a LTS version so it should be great and it didnt corrupt my project and built it still failed but for a different reason

[pearl marlin]

Do you have any stray things in Plugins/Android ?

[pearl marlin]

Oh looky an ironsource lib that probably caused the prev gradle error 😐

[analog plover]

You should use the latest version of 6.0 which is 6000.0.56f1. That one is almost a year old

[valid tulip]

oh cool

now what do I do ;-;

[pearl marlin]

I was going to say it would be better to bother installing the newest version first but I think common sense is gone

delete that fucking file and try again 😆

Like i said it can be a pain to remove old plugins to upgrade and UPM helps with this but I cannot see your project and check you removed old things properly

[pearl marlin]

So delete that ironsource lib. check if your have enough space on your D drive and try again.

Oh and bother to install a newer unity version next time

[valid tulip]

yes I should

[valid tulip]

is 210gb enough space?

[pearl marlin]

Anyway check disk space, delete that random lib file and see how things to
Should be? Im just guessing based on that error that it was disk space related.

[valid tulip]

i have 210gb of space

but my ram

[pearl marlin]

well you can watch task manager and see if it gets super full during a build?

[valid tulip]

I can tell you one thing

[pearl marlin]

not relevent to the error

[valid tulip]

it works

ITS FIXED

thank you so much

Ive been working on this for 2 weeks straight

[pearl marlin]

Yay! Going forward try to use the package manager for things if possible instead of importing stuff into Assets/ and things should be smoother 👍

[valid tulip]

I appreciate it so much man

[swift haven]

How can I detect if my program is running in a mobile browser?
UnityEngine.Application.isMobilePlatform seems to check if we are compiled for mobile, and will always return false in web browser, right?

[dire magnet]

Write JavaScript that does it and use the unity JavaScript interop stuff

[pearl marlin]

Check https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-platform.html for webgl because thats the only "web" platform
Or use conditional compilation with UNITY_WEBGL

and then combine with js to check device type

[swift haven]

Gotcha

[swift haven]

Thanks

[pearl marlin]

it does say the mobile platform check can work on web but may not be reliable so perhaps combine it with JS and https://dev.to/timhuang/a-simple-way-to-detect-if-browser-is-on-a-mobile-device-with-javascript-44j3

[swift haven]

Cool, seems good enough for me

[swift haven]

I got it all working, thanks a lot guys. But a new problem arises ...

After playing a few scenes on the phone, the web browser suddenly reloads and game starts from beginning. Any ideas?

[pearl marlin]

perhaps the tab used too much memory so it was restarted? If you check on a desktop browser you can often check per tab memory usage

[swift haven]

Oh good idea, thanks

[pearl marlin]

webgl is weird in that GC cannot happen mid execution and only executes at the end of a frame (limitations of webasm)
so its possible if too much allocation happens in a single frame you can run out of heap space

[swift haven]

Gotcha

Are there any special thresholds to look out for?

[pearl marlin]

Unity seems to control the webasm heap size max itself:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/PlayerSettings.WebGL-maximumMemorySize.html
but use the memory profiler and browser profiling tools to tell if you leak/if this is even the cause

[swift haven]

It bumps up from 765MB to 1GB in the scene switch that hangs the mobile tab

[sly plover]

Out of curiosity at the moment, is it possible to use Unity for mobile apps using an API to read barcodes for example?

[tired lily]

yep

[sly plover]

Nice, had some pretty neat ideas a while back. Maybe I can actually do it sometime.

[devout falcon]

Is it really not advisable to use the built-in terrain when the game is for mobile? Same with the Shader graph, is it much better to use manual codes instead of Shader graph to be more optimized?

[lament lagoon]

what is the correct canvas reference resolution for android app?

PS: I'm a beginner with unity

[fallen compass]

There is no correct ref res. You use what you want, just make sure it matches your design in the paint prog

[valid tulip]

there is no perfect ref res unless you are doing pixel art

[lament lagoon]

I'have set an aspect ratio of 9:16 and canvas reference resolution 1080 x 1920. but the text of the InputField (TextMeshPro), I see it blurred.

I don't understand why?

[pearl marlin]

shader graph for mobile is fine. you may want to consider changing it to half precision instead

[fallen compass]

show the issue
show the setup

use the correct channel -> #📲┃ui-ux

[lament lagoon]

ok

[devout falcon]

Even if everything is made from shader graph? as long as it is set to alf precision?

[pearl marlin]

yea its fine, if you dont do things in a bad way it should be okay
half precision is recommended for mobile but may reduce quality

[devout falcon]

Got it, thanks!

[pearl marlin]

e.g. shaders with lots of complex things or stupid amount of texture samples

you can research on tiled rendering to learn more

[devout falcon]

I do have a lot of Tiled shaders like Triplanar for cliff and rocks and for buildings. It is just that our dev told us to switch everything to Standard Surface Shader for better optimization.

[pearl marlin]

hopefully you mean URP Lit/Simple Lit

And you miss understand, mobile gpus use "tiled rendering"

[devout falcon]

We're in built-in RP, because we switched also from URP for better mobile-friendly optimization, the Dev said

[pearl marlin]

WHAT

URP is the better choice

URP offers much better control over rendering complexity and settings
old built in is shit and old and does not offer such control

[devout falcon]

welp, I don't know. I'm just asking question if I can still use Shader graph since it is better and also the Built-in Terrain because it is easier. But all those are banned. Because our Lead Dev told us to do so

[devout falcon]

That's what I know too, since it is what I studied

[pearl marlin]

Im going to presume the lead has some very outdated knowledge about unity

terrain is actually pretty good if it doesnt render at too high a complexity and you have reasonably sized textures for it.

Shader graph is fine too because its all compiled into real shaders. Perhaps they would be happy with amplify shader editor?

[devout falcon]

Not really outdated, much more like still doesn't have enough experience. Because I worked with some devs from different team before, and this is just the first time that I am called to optimized my shader more, even though it is already optimized.

[devout falcon]

I'll check this one out, I remember it's from the asset store. Is it highly recommended?

[pearl marlin]

Its good but tbh shader graph is also good and probably not any different

It existed before shader graph anyway

Is there evidence your shader is actually causing performance issues? What does it even do?

[devout falcon]

Thanks for answering my questions, I'm just having an existential crisis because of too much gas lighting. We're working on a multiplayer game

[devout falcon]

He said that it is rendering a bunch of technical nonsense in the background before it even do it's thing. I'm just. what . Even the shader that only has Albedo, Normal and ORM map, doesn't even have a complex part 🥹

[pearl marlin]

what are they smokin

[devout falcon]

THAT'S OUR REACTION HAHAHA

[pearl marlin]

3 textures isnt bad so thats already better, is this game trying to be realistic if you are bothering with occlusion/ao?

[devout falcon]

Stylized. We don't use the default occlusion and AO from the post-process. Because the dev removed it too, so our AO right now doesn't do that much.

I prefer the old AO

Occlusion is already applied too. Default AO is just removed. Like the default post-process in short

[pearl marlin]

so this uses the old post processing stack?

The new one with URP has better configuration for the provided effects

[devout falcon]

Yeah, the left one. The one from the right is manually coded

[pearl marlin]

Is this foward?

[devout falcon]

Yes. I don't even use a lot of properties. Only the Exposure, AO and Color correction before.

[pearl marlin]

Anyway the one with URP has quality configuration and I bet performs better than the one replaced here
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@16.0/manual/post-processing-ssao.html

[devout falcon]

I think so, yeah

[pearl marlin]

URP has the new "foward+" mode
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@16.0/manual/rendering/forward-plus-rendering-path.html
but yea i expected it to be forward

[devout falcon]

I'm planning to recreate the Post-process for better AO. because right now it's more like a blurred outline that an AO. I'll based from the link. Thanks

[pearl marlin]

well hope it all works out, dont be afraid to use shader graph

[devout falcon]

Aight!

[swift haven]

When loading my webgl game on mobile, I get no sound. It works good in a regular browser. Any leads?

[lusty relic]

Hello, I'm having an issue where after creating the apk file and installing it on my device, the game won't show up in my drawer , I can't even launch it when installing it either, I can see it in my settings that game is installed indeed, but only thing I can do is uninstall it

[tired lily]

Sounds like you're missing an intent filter in your android manifest. Are you using a custom manifest or have a third party dependency that might be editing it during the build?

[lusty relic]

No, I am using a custom manifest but it does have intention for launch and main in it, only changes I did to it was I added property for colliding attributes fixture

, sending the manifest file

[lusty relic]

https://pastebin.com/ssGDhV55

[tired lily]

did you check the merged manifest in android studio or by pulling it from a built apk?

[lusty relic]

Uh no but I have no idea what that means either, this file I sent was from my plugins folder in unity

Haven't touched Android studio before

[tired lily]

this is only a fragment of the final android manifest. Manifests from all sources get merged together. If the final manifest is missing the right launch intent filter, you can then work backwards to figure out where and when it goes missing

[lusty relic]

I see, so I need to check final manifest, and where would that be?

(For the record it used to work fine, I haven't done any changes to the project settings or imported new packages , it just started acting weird out of nowhere)

Checked my GitHub history and only thing it shows is that I changed bundle codes

[tired lily]

does a clean build work? if you delete library entirely and rebuild, does that work? you can look at the merged manifest in android studio or by pulling it out of the built apk with some tools

[lusty relic]

Will have to check it, I'll get back to you after trying clean build and library delete build

[pearl marlin]

On newer unity versions you can pick between 2 activity types for android. Perhaps you should delete this manifest and have unity re gen the manifest and then you can work from that and keep the correct activity

[tired lily]

oh good eye, yeah make sure that's not set to GameActivity. That would explain what happened to your intent filter

[lusty relic]

Wait setting it to gameactivity messes it up?

[tired lily]

yes, uses a different activity type which your manifest has no entry for

[lusty relic]

Will try that as well

[lusty relic]

I see (tho it has been gameactivity since the start of the project, so not sure if that's the issue but worth trying ig)

[tired lily]

are you sure you didn't delete that section at some point? Unity should've generated the right one for you. I just tested it, and by default it inserts an entry for both with a comment about which to delete

[pearl marlin]

yea i think you remove the wrong one

[lusty relic]

Probably deleted the Application one and kept game activity one I think, but I might've been wrong, no harm in trying again

[tired lily]

your manifest has the GameActivity one deleted

[lusty relic]

Still doesn't make sense why it worked all this time then lol

[tired lily]

sometimes Unity will have staled cached build data, so that's why I suggest clean build/Library deletion. If it's not building that way, you have confirmed there is definitely a problem

otherwise you might waste a lot of time chasing a phantom problem

[lusty relic]

@tired lily @pearl marlin thank you so much, that was the case

Project was set to Game entry but manifest was using activity entry, after deleting/regenerating it works fine now

But it was really weird why it worked all this time and stopped only now for no reason lol

[worn vine]

I create iOS development build but cannot connect by local ip to device to see logs

[worn vine]

I try to send two FixedString4096Bytes to send the Receipt of 7001 byte and this message do not ritch to the server can it be UDP limitation?

[covert hill]

Does anyone know how to hide navigation bar under for Android?

[karmic rivet]

I am trying to upload my ios game made with unity to app store, and i am getting some rejections
my game is for kids(under age 5) and apple policy says i can't use ads at all, but i have seen many game that are kids game but still have ads. how can i solve this issue

[silent scarab]

Rules are rules i guess, I also notice that a lot of games does not display any gdpr notice for european users. The fact that some games does not do it, don’t mean it is correct, just means that the human review didn’t catch them

Maybe not include your app in the kids category?

[neon thicket]

Games that look like they're for kids is different from apps explicitly stating they are for kids. You cannot have ads on apps which are stated being made for kids.

[worn vine]

I have question in IAP tutorial we give player purchased items inside OnPurchasePending but there is OnPurchaseConfirmed shouldn't we validate purchase inside OnPurchaseConfirmed?

I got info but I'm not sure this info correct that on iOS receipt should be loaded from generated file instead of parameter and this file will be generated in OnPurchaseConfirmed.

[pearl marlin]

Are you following this?
https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/iap/manual/purchases#process-purchases

[worn vine]

I followed the example I can download with IAP pakage

I followed these ones

01 buying consumable

[tired lily]

there isn't an OnPurchasePending. Are you talking about what to return for ProcessPurchase?

[worn vine]

there is example I use ``` void OnPurchasePending(PendingOrder order)
{
var product = GetFirstProductInOrder(order);
if (product is null)
{
Debug.Log("Could not find product in order.");
return;
}

    //Add the purchased product to the players inventory
    if (product.definition.id == goldProductId)
    {
        AddGold();
    }
    else if (product.definition.id == diamondProductId)
    {
        AddDiamond();
    }

    Debug.Log($"Purchase complete - Product: {product.definition.id}");

    m_StoreController.ConfirmPurchase(order);
}

But there is another method ``` void OnPurchaseConfirmed(ConfirmedOrder order)
{
var product = GetFirstProductInOrder(order);
if (product == null)
{
Debug.Log("Could not find product in purchase confirmation.");
}

 Debug.Log($"Purchase confirmed- Product: {product?.definition.id}");

}

[tired lily]

ah, IAP v5 must have changed the API

is OnPurchaseConfirmed called when restoring purchases? That's probably why if I had to guess. Consumables are one-and-done so if a user uninstalls, they're just gone unless you persist them yourself. But other types of purchases (ex: subscriptions) will re-run callbacks for purchases the user has already made

[worn vine]

when I purchase consumable transitionId is empty string = "", I use TestFlight build it is not good because I planned to store transitinId on my server looks like it is not generating transition Id for consumable

[tired lily]

are you testing in the editor or on device? in the editor it's all fake

[worn vine]

on device, I found problem I had bad parsing inside code thats why it returned "" all the time

[fast geyser]

How can i make that my mobile Game looks good on almost every smartphone size? Because my last game was perfect on my phone but on my friends phone it was really stretched etc. I stated making a new game that i want to realese on the google play store and i don't want that at the end is the same fail as last time. 😅 😂

[fallen compass]

Without seeing what the actual problem was, the answer is just generally

-> work out what the problem was
-> google for information on best practices to scale/ resize whatever it is for different resolutions

You can test in Unity as you develop. Don't use the 'game' view, swap it to 'Device Simulator' and then you can swap between lots of different mobile devices

[fast geyser]

Thank you, i never used test mobile devices

I will try it out! 👍 😊

[calm axle]

Why shading/texture visibility is too low like fog when I exported unity game for android?:

[fresh mica]

Hi I was hoping to get some advice on a build error I'm getting.

[fresh mica]

Thanks Ender

So I recently completed a small project and made a test build on Sunday. But now whenever I go to try to build the final version I keep getting this error

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':unityLibrary:mergeReleaseNativeLibs'.

java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: D:\OneDrive\Unity Projects\Toss Up Game\Library\Bee\Android\Prj\IL2CPP\Gradle\unityLibrary\build\intermediates\merged_native_libs\release\mergeReleaseNativeLibs\out\lib\arm64-v8a

• Try:

Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
Run with --scan to get full insights.
Get more help at https://help.gradle.org.

BUILD FAILED in 3s

UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

[obtuse jetty]

No problem anytime

[tired lily]

move project out of onedrive

[boreal wadi]

So our android game works on older phones but it seems like the latest API Levels, are broken, the game either doesn't open or just gives a black screen. Anyone know why that might be?

[tired lily]

check logcat for errors when launching

[tired iris]

NDK r27c (64-bit) (27.2.12479018). where is ???????????????

[tired lily]

only took a few seconds to find https://github.com/android/ndk/releases?q=27.2&expanded=true provide more details though, I suspect you're doing something wrong since you should be using the version bundled with Unity

[tired iris]

I just installed the latest version of Unity (6.2.4) with the Android module, including the embedded JDK 17 and SDK.
However, when trying to update the Android SDK package list, I still get the following error in the Console:

Failed to update Android SDK package list. See the Console for details.

This happens immediately after a fresh installation, so it is not related to any previous project settings or modifications.

@frozen vapor

@odd arrow @queen kraken

[odd arrow]

@tired iris don't ping moderators or anyone not in conversation with you.

[tired iris]

okay but answer my question .

[odd arrow]

@tired iris If you keep ignoring rules you will be muted. Make sure to read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[silent scarab]

Hey I am in need of help, to test my game in iOS/Android, is a simple infinite runner, i can post a small trailer here if the rules let me, currently they are in closed test (google play) and tesflight ios, someone cna help me?

[odd arrow]

You can post published page in #1180170818983051344 , make sure to read pinned post guidelines there

[silent scarab]

Ok thanks!

[real parcel]

in my phone a21s, in a area with 600k verts and 850k tris with 200 draw calls it gives 30 fps, in another area with same stats but 500k verts and 700k tris it gives 23 fps even though this area is less heavier.Why? the only thing diff in 23 fps one, its open, the 30 fps one is a closed area indoor.Tested on another device and same story, almost 10 fps less in the open area, another test i did where in an empty scene i got 50 and i after just adding one unlit object fps dropped to 30, checked profiler and the samophere thing took most of the time. Can somebody tell what exactly the hell is going on here?

[north thunder]

This is GPU Bound.

[north thunder]

You need to do GPU profiling.

[glass mortar]

Guys, how can I optimize game? I want to get more frames

[pearl marlin]

Use the profiler with a dev build to begin looking into this: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/profiler-introduction.html

[glass mortar]

thanks

[candid ridge]

Guys, I need help acount picking up Apple system with purpose to compile app for apple devices, Buying M2 Pro is good or bad now a days or should buy M4 base model ? Obvious budget and compatibility oriented.

[pearl marlin]

the latest mac mini you can afford/get is best so you can use xcode for as long as possible

[urban moon]

Anyone found a way to implement Google Sign In (have been using google-signin-plugin-1.0.4) with updated Firebase for 16kb page size ?

[pearl marlin]

Id presume newer firebase versions solved this. Only solution is rebuilt binaries

[heady bluff]

Do I really NEED a mac to upload projects to IOS? is it possible to use a VM or something?

[neon thicket]

I'm sure people have somehow struggled through using a VM, but the headache isn't worth it.

But generally speaking, yes you need a mac. Either a physical one or use cloud building which is something Unity provides.

[proven vapor]

Any one knows why on Google Play, the promo codes are not detected by the billing library until i try to do that purchase within the app? then it says "you alreeady have that product" and gives me the reward, but not at startup.

[glass mortar]

can i make shadows without pixels&

?*

[spare saddle]

You can increase the shadow resolution, and use soft shadows instead of hard shadows. And remember to not bump up the shadow resolution too high, remember you are making it for mobiles

[spare saddle]

And soft shadows requires more power, todays phone can handle it with a balance, but still look for it.

[spare saddle]

https://youtu.be/GelFADvLJXY?si=Oxga_m4b7xey873D

You can watch this tutorial as well. But dont just blindly follow it, remember we need to care a lot about performance especially when it comes to mobile games

[sleek eagle]

It wasnt said yet, but the shadows become sharper if you lower the shadow distance as well, for mobile this is key to get good quality up close and still have good performance

[spare saddle]

Oh wow! I didn't know that.
Thnx!

[eternal wedge]

Guys, I give up

I don't know why but even though I changed the prefab then in build it still uses previous version of the prefab

I tried everything, clean build, reimport all, clear build cache...

The only thing I haven't tried yet is absolute nuke - deleting library folder

[odd arrow]

Explain and illustrate the problem, this says nothing about it.

[eternal wedge]

I have a prefab - warp gate, it is instantiated in the scene. In edit mode I change it (I added some mesh, changed some particles and hit Ctrl S) and I tested it in play mode - it works. However when I build it then in ABB it is still using the previous state

Also this prefab is not addressable

[odd arrow]

Did you actually save the prefab?

[eternal wedge]

Yes, I saved it then reopened unity

[odd arrow]

You save prefab by dropping it into old asset instance or creating a new one (if you were editing outside of the prefab editor)

[eternal wedge]

The only solution I could have thought of is deleting that prefab and recreating new copy

[eternal wedge]

Old asset instance inside Assets/prefabs - in edit mode

[odd arrow]

Make sure you reference the newly saved prefab and not old one

[eternal wedge]

I already made sure, in play mode it works fine, it's just the build which is messing things here

[odd arrow]

When building make sure to delete previous build first and check that there's no errors

[eternal wedge]

I tried that as well 😭

[odd arrow]

Then debug in build and print out on the screen what asset name are you actually instantiating.

Then figure out where it is and why you referencing that instead what you want

[eternal wedge]

Okay, I will try, but I think I know where the issue is - it's probably one obfuscator asset messing with this

I will try deleting library

And then disabling obfuscator

[odd arrow]

Prefabs are assets, if there's a mixup it's of your own making, you need to debug the problem and figure it out.

[analog jewel]

I’d love for you to try my game

[odd arrow]

@analog jewel #1180170818983051344

[little panther]

Hello, does anyone have ideas on how to switch 2D characters in an Android game? Should I use a button for my character or a separate button to switch characters?

[latent compass]

hey can someone help me with a problem I have with Unity and Vuforia with area targets ? Im using Unity 6000.0.57f1, I followed every step of videos about area targets, but it seems that when I open the app on my phone it doesnt work, first it didnt open my camera, then I erased vulkan from Graphics API settings on the project settings, then it finally opened the camera but when im at the palce of test it doesnt recongnized nothing from the scanned area target, what am i doing wrong ?

Im using an Honor 200 Pro for the test and i used an Iphone 14Pro Max i borrowed from a colleague

[teal flint]

How to use unity in mobile? ✍🏻

[neon thicket]

You cannot use the Unity editor on mobile.

[teal flint]

Hell nah

😥

I am poor girl @neon thicket

[grave orchid]

Imagine if you could 🤣 unity can we get on that lol a mini editor for phone, maybe April fools

[pearl marlin]

godot has an editor usable on mobile but I think its quite unique in that respect.
Otherwise yea you will need a pc of some kind with windows, osx or linux.
Or some web only engine like playcanvas could maybe work.

[teal flint]

Oh

Okay thanks for telling

[teal flint]

Yeah and also free to use becox I am poor girl 🤣

[flint elk]

How do I get my S20 to properly detect my project as a game, I want to the preformamce usage of the game but detection seems flaky

[sleek eagle]

Detection of what exactly?

[flint elk]

According to what I've gathered Samsung uses Playstore metadata to mark an application as a game allowing game mode and some overlays. It falls back on the actual manifest but that's a hit or miss.

I figured out that I can upload it to the playstore for testing so I'll test my luck with that

[sleek eagle]

Otherwise the latest Unity 6 versions have proper category settings I think

@flint elk

Not sure if it dropped in 6.0 yet

[sly plover]

Nice I got the app to work to scan food barcodes and pull nutrition info from other sites. For the most part. But I suck at UIs lol.

[flint elk]

It does but Samsung specifically seems to ignore those tags and instead look for metadata from Google so that method is largely unreliable

[fallen matrix]

Hey, anyone khow in Unity6 we can keep status bar and navbar on for android builds, but in reactNative and other framework you get option to nativly change their color based on what activity of color your screen are rendering, is there any option available color dyamic color change for status and navbar without unity without using any java plugin?

[flint elk]

Given how limited controls unity exposes for native I strongly believe that's a no

[inland sigil]

Sounds to me like you might need a custom post export script to add that metadata/setting to your build.

[raven edge]

in there a compiler for android other than Gradle?, it always have issues i never build i game without having issues with gradle

[valid tulip]

I am using URP for the first time and when it was time to test it on multile devices some devices show this light quickly start getting brighter and brighter its like there is a Dontdestroyonload(gameObject in the update script but i didnt even attach a script to any of the lights and i cant reproduce this in the editor this is mostly a guessing game now I really need help from any1 that had this before me

[pearl marlin]

Can you record to show what's happening? Are these 3d lights?

[valid tulip]

they are 2D spotlights angled at the background and this only happens in specific devices I never experienced it myself but other users keep reporting that
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/872037410391859231/1420481939386929264/XRecorder_Edited_20250924_01.mp4?ex=68d58e65&is=68d43ce5&hm=60cf3cfd9ce787aabbc5fc668c2baa15f729bcdee9fd8bb68da87cca8169628d&

[pearl marlin]

If you make a dev build you can use the frame debugger to figure out what's happening.
It looks like the camera bg mode is set to not clear but otherwise I'm not sure. How is this menu set-up? Sprites? Ugui?

[valid tulip]

all sprites with 2D lights as children

with a global volume

but I did try completely disabling it once as a test build but it didnt fix it

[valid tulip]

I could add you as an internal tester in google play if you want to see everything yourself

[pearl marlin]

I'm good, I can't figure out much more from that. Are you using bloom?

[valid tulip]

yes

but i #📱┃mobile message

[pearl marlin]

Ideally you have a debug menu to help you change things and see the results in a build

[valid tulip]

do I logcat it?

[pearl marlin]

https://openupm.com/packages/com.yasirkula.ingamedebugconsole/

Nah i mean something that lets you perform logic to check how things change in a build

[valid tulip]

the issue is

I dont know what to test

I dont know what to see that causes this

it could be a flipped byte from a random electron in perfect spot

[pearl marlin]

show me your main camera for this scene

erm no

[pearl marlin]

kinda need the data expanded 😐

[valid tulip]

give me a moment

accidently deleted it mb

[pearl marlin]

check the logs for your build in case there are NAN errors (via android logcat or connect the editor console to the build)

and do try to use the frame debugger with a dev build which will let you step through and see how the frame was drawn

if need you can record a vid of you doing that for us to check

[valid tulip]

how do i do that?

[pearl marlin]

open the frame debugger in the unity editor and if a dev build is accessable on the same network or via usb (android only) you can enable it and it will pause the game and show details for how the current frame was rendered
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/FrameDebugger-debug.html

same for the console, there is a little dropdown that lets you view logs for dev builds too

[valid tulip]

the device is in developer mode but it still wont pop up on my pc even tho the usb settings allows file transfer

[pearl marlin]

has to be a dev build too

[valid tulip]

I have to rebuild this again?

ok I will do this tmr morning

[pearl marlin]

yea with the dev build option enabled

get into the habit of this for testing builds

[valid tulip]

whats with this

[valid tulip]

it wont let me

[pearl marlin]

thats to build and run right?

and make sure you still build an apk if you dont plan to upload to the play store

[valid tulip]

yes

[valid tulip]

it already is uploaded now im uploading it again but i dont want to upload the developer one to play store i wanna build to phone immediatly

[pearl marlin]

usb debugging/remote adb needs to be active for build and run to work (so it can install the app for you)

[valid tulip]

yes

[pearl marlin]

le google will help you there

[valid tulip]

it is connected

[valid tulip]

adb?

my phone is in dev mode and wired to my pc isnt that all i need?

[pearl marlin]

https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options#Enable-debugging

you have to have usb debugging on or perform a wireless adb connection for the "run" part to work

[valid tulip]

I have to slep now cya tmr morning and ill do this

[pearl marlin]

you can also install the app via adb or transfer it over later so its not a big loss to not use build and run right now

[gentle compass]

hello

I was looking for a solution to my problem

[iron acorn]

You still need to share the error details, even if it's in this channel... 😅

[gentle compass]

https://paste.mod.gg/vufouxgitgnm/0

[iron acorn]

Now read what you shared there and answer a simple question:
Does that error say anything about the cause of the build failure?

[pearl marlin]

you need to go through each step, does it look normal before bloom?

[valid tulip]

everything above bloom?

[pearl marlin]

click a draw call to see the preview of the frame at that point in time

check one before the bloom pass to see if stuff is messed up before

[valid tulip]

yes

stuff is messed up

alot of it

first thing

second

[pearl marlin]

Hmm thats weird that the color and depth clear are explicitly done but do not cover the whole buffer

My thinking is something is left from the previous frame that causes this build up of light over time.
Normally with rendering we do not perform a full clear of the frame buffer as we expect the next frame to override everything from the last.

But when this goes wrong, old data from the old frame can cause problems

[valid tulip]

yes

thats it

thats whats happening

it gets brighter and brighter

as if the last frame is being added to the new frame

they only clears when I switch the scenes or restart the program

[iron acorn]

Should probably look from the bottom up.

Depth buffer can be white like that depending on the values.

[pearl marlin]

This should all be 2d sprites so id expect no depth usage

[valid tulip]

not really

[pearl marlin]

okay what does this scene contain then?

[valid tulip]

background is placed behind the other sprites to avoid that clipping effect

[iron acorn]

Should look at these points

[pearl marlin]

What is this background? sprite render? mesh renderer? something else?

[valid tulip]

only the middle "draw procedural" is normal

[iron acorn]

Cany you share some screenshots..?

[valid tulip]

sprite renderer

[pearl marlin]

check the steps that dlich pointed out next then.

[valid tulip]

middle one is not normal anymore

[iron acorn]

Try disabling bloom for a moment

[pearl marlin]

yea bloom is making it worse

[valid tulip]

I already tried that before

aight

[iron acorn]

And it looked different than the last 3 screenshots?

I mean here it's quite likely a very bright color(lights?) possibly causing value overflow. Or just hdr making everything weird.

Try disabling hdr, try disabling the 2d lights.
If disabling the lights helps, then you just have some crazy settings.

[valid tulip]

its the lights I think

[iron acorn]

What settings do they have?

[valid tulip]

I once disabled all of the global volume and it didnt help at all

[iron acorn]

I'm not sure if a volume is related to lights..?

[valid tulip]

middle is normal again

[valid tulip]

volume profile (urp)?

[valid tulip]

note: this brightness issue isnt in every single device btw its only on specific devices testers reported

[iron acorn]

Isn't that for post processing?

[valid tulip]

yea

I thought that might be related and completely disabled it

[iron acorn]

Hmm...
Did you try enabling "prevent NaN"(probably a bit different name) setting on the camera?

[valid tulip]

no, I dont know what is

[iron acorn]

As setting on the camera.

[pearl marlin]

Try with it enabled. I am legit confused by what's happening but it's hard when we cant see the whole frame process

[iron acorn]

Also, does the issue ever happen on the first renderer2 draw?

[valid tulip]

it didnt help

yes

I dont know how to discribe this

the ui is gone

the issue is fixed

i didnt do anything?

wait nvm

[valid tulip]

not anymore now

[iron acorn]

When you select draw calls in the frame debugger, that would affect what's rendered on the device. Don't get confused by that.

[iron acorn]

Can you take screenshots of these draw calls?

[iron acorn]

What's the light source at the top left corner of the screen?

[valid tulip]

large spotlight

simulating the sun

[iron acorn]

Is that the one you shared earlier?

[valid tulip]

this is how its meant to look

the only thing lighting up the screen is the sun

[valid tulip]

yes

[iron acorn]

You're saying that's the only light source in the scene?

[valid tulip]

no

im saying without it you dont see much

but there are more light sources

[valid tulip]

each comet and the little guy have a light source

[iron acorn]

Hmmm...
Well, considering it only happens on some devices, it must be some weird graphics api or drivers quirk...

What graphics api are you using btw?

[valid tulip]

I did try disabling the sun light souce completely before but the issue persisted with the other light sources "stacking up" getting brighter and brighter

[pearl marlin]

I wonder if forcing open gl only would help

[iron acorn]

Yeah, I'd try shuffling the main graphics api

[valid tulip]

I wanted to do that but I didnt

where was that graphics api menu again?

in the settings?

[iron acorn]

In the Player settings

Beyond that, you'd probably need to use the platform native graphics debugger.

[valid tulip]

done

[iron acorn]

Was there vulkan at the top or something?

[valid tulip]

yes

nothing else

[iron acorn]

Ok, then it might work.

[valid tulip]

nop

[valid tulip]

no use

[iron acorn]

Did you rebuild the game that fast?😲

[valid tulip]

build and run yea

[iron acorn]

Hmm... Well, then native debuggers. Or just keep on trying toggling different options/lights, etc... Until you can deduce the cause.

[valid tulip]

I fixed it

the issue was in the settings of the lights

all of them

[iron acorn]

Nice. What setting exactly?

[valid tulip]

before

after

[pearl marlin]

I guess this prevents it adding to the previous frame (why that happens is still a mystery i guess)

[valid tulip]

yes

[cyan wing]

hey i have a problem with my code or firebase ? my game wouldn't load what i have done after closing it it reset the game and firebase only update first time after instelling it if i close it open it everything i did reset and fire base wouldn't update anymore with stuff i do
how and where should i share my codes?

[cyan wing]

https://paste.mod.gg/jkvihunrybyg/0

[trail marten]

Hi everyone, I need some help with my project.

I’m on Unity 6.1 (Android build), and after building my APK, the terrain and textures appear empty/white on my phone, even though everything works fine inside the editor.

So far, I tried..
Switching API levels.
Changing Texture Compression (enabled ASTC, ETC2, etc.).
Rebuilding APK and reinstalling.

But the issue is still there.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

[tired lily]

add logs, more exception handling, view logcat. Hopefully you're initializing Firebase the recommended way via CheckAndFixDependenciesAsync somewhere. StateChanged might not invoke events until the next frame so your Awake is fishy

[tired lily]

two more options to test/consider: shaders were stripped or your device doesn't support them

[sleek eagle]

Please update Unity. 6.1 is old and unsupported. Use 6.2
After that, check for any errors while building, enable shader compilation logging, and use logcat to check for errors

[trail marten]

Okay thanks, I'll look into possible shader issues and also make sure my Unity version is up to date, along with checking the build logs for any errors.

[charred mortar]

Whats the common way to show keyboard on mobile devices?

[pearl marlin]

ui text fields do this already but otherwise you can use
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/TouchScreenKeyboard.Open.html

[charred mortar]

I have a textmesh pro input field, so it should open a keyboard?

[pearl marlin]

yea for sure when the user taps it to edit it will open the touch keyboard and a native os input field (if not disabled)

[quiet crag]

I am trying to figuer out how I can open the IAP Catalog Editor from a seperate script button. With a simple editor script. Anyone know how I can do this?
The actual location is here:

Services > In-App Purchasing > IAP Catalog

I read through the docs and I could not exactly find any way on how I could do this:
https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/iap/manual/iap-catalog-window-reference

Code I am using:

            if (GUILayout.Button("Open IAP Catalog"))
            {
                OpenIAPCatalogEditor();
            }

        public static void OpenIAPCatalogEditor()
        {
            //Open Window
        }

[quiet crag]

Found the answer:

                EditorWindow.GetWindow(typeof(UnityEditor.Purchasing.ProductCatalogEditor));

[sullen lava]

Any tips or thoughts on how this is looking?

[rain leaf]

wait what? already? and I'm still in 6.0 XD

[sleek eagle]

You just said 6.1 lol

6.0 is LTS, so had support. 6.1 is tech stream, so dropped support when 6.2 came oit

[rain leaf]

I assume you are referring to Edolas, the original poster?
So, in a sense, its better to stick with 6.0 LTS than keep upgrading to tech stream? I havent followed unity version for a while now, and I upgraded to 6.0 only for upgrading my android project

[sleek eagle]

Yeah

For projects that benefit new features I just upgrade every 6 weeks or so. Also makes sure the project is set up good if it doesn't break every update lol
But for most projects use 6.0 now. And when you have a bug, update to the latest 6.0 bugfixes first

6.0.0 to 6.0.53 has a ton of fixes already

[worn vine]

Do I need to support ipV6 on my server to pass apple review? looks like they cannot connect to my ipv4 server (Transport).

[worn vine]

I found MultiNetworkDriver hope it will be working

[livid briar]

I have an urgent issue with the new mandatory version of the new unity IAP package version 5.0.1 for Android. I need someone to talk to. Where can I find someone?

My specific problem is that the function _storeController.FetchProducts(catalog.GetProducts()); where catalog is a var catalog = new CatalogProvider(); then returns a list with 0 products inside the OnProductsFetched callback.
I have tried every possible solution and fix that I can find but it does not work (IAP package is enabled in project settings, unity services properly connected to online project, product IDs match with google play store, the products are active in the play console etc). Also, the project previously worked with version 4.x of the unity IAP package and the list of products hasn't changed since then.

[knotty shard]

can someone help me i try everythings

i'm on debug developper mode , it say gradle build failed

[iron acorn]

You need to look at the error details. Not just the top level message.

[ornate gulch]

Has anyone addressed the recent security vulnerability with an older version of the Google Play Billing SDK?

It looks like you can patch your app without having to upgrade the target Android API, but not sure about the Billing Library.

https://discussions.unity.com/t/unity-platform-protection-take-immediate-action-to-protect-your-games-and-apps/1688031

[sleek eagle]

Isnt the issue inside of the editor? Not the individual packages

[ornate gulch]

Yeah, it's the editor. But you need to resubmit to the Google Play store. From my understanding Unity has been in contact with Google and will allow re-submissions even if you're not target the correct Android API. However I was wondering if you can submit it with an old Billing Lib. version. I'm gonna test it soon anyway, but just seeing if anyone's tried.

[sleek eagle]

Ahhh like that, I misunderstood the issue

If you find out let me know!

[knotty shard]

where do i see this?

[iron acorn]

Click the errors and look at the bottom part of the console

[ornate gulch]

The patcher tool worked!

Basically my game targets Android API 34, and the Google Billing SDK 6.2.1 (via the Unity In app Purchasing package 4.12.2)

My Google play console is currently saying that I need API 35 and Google Billing SDK 7 for any new submissions.

But after using the patcher tool on my last build, I was able to submit it and it was reviewed and accepted within about 30 mins.

[low locust]

hello guys, it's my first time making a mobile game, do you guys any idea or advice on how to optimize the game?

[iron acorn]

Profile -> determine bottlenecks -> optimize bottlenecks.

[brazen birch]

Yeah I'm sure there's a million guides on that by now

[eternal wedge]

I met my fate...

Gradle error

I'm using Google play games v2.1.0 and Google Ads package v10.5.0 and unity 6000.2

- consumer needed artifactType = 'android-classes-jar'
- the library declares artifactType = 'srcaar'

[eternal wedge]

If I understand this correctly, GPG package is not as modern as Google ads package and therefore I am forced to modify something in GPG package

[mellow rampart]

Any one here having experience in creating a system to be able to install apk from the unity generated build itself.
My use case is to push updates for my application in the form of this apk which will be downloaded and installed.
I have tried multiple things but couldn't get it to work sometimes gradle errors,sometimes run time permission errors and so on.

I want to target all modern android versions and devices.
If anyone is having any idea about this please help me out by explaining how to achieve this.
I can't use Google play to push updates it isn't on Google play.

[brazen birch]

Yup, you just need the permissions enabled. We do this with our dashboards a lot to update packages.
Android manifest:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<provider
  android:name="androidx.core.content.FileProvider"
  android:authorities="${applicationId}.provider"
  android:exported="false"
  android:grantUriPermissions="true">
  <meta-data
    android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
    android:resource="@xml/file_paths" />
</provider>

And then of course the java request to install it somewhere in your code. You'll need to do it through a file provider usually.

Uri apkUri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(context,context.getPackageName() + ".provider", new File(apkPath));
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE);
intent.setData(apkUri);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
context.startActivity(intent);

Like something to that effect.

[stoic mesa]

We're struggling profiling and optimizing our render time (both in cpu and gpu) for mobile. Are there tools you find useful for this, other than the Unity Profiler and the Frame Debugger?

it's a 2D game and we're still struggling with performance a lot, when targeting low end phones

What we do is toggle different elements on and off and see the MS difference. but there must be a better way

[pearl marlin]

gpu profiling on device is harder and requires better tools to get more detail like renderdoc.
Otherwise you need to look at scene complexity such as tri count, shader complexity, texture usage and how many passes are drawn in a frame.

[iron acorn]

The cpu side you can diagnose with the profiler just fine. For the gpu side, you'll need to look up platform specific graphics debugging tools.

[stoic mesa]

how do i diagnose the cpu side
using the frame debugger? should i prioritize batching of sprites?

it's not tri count.. i swapped all the sprites to quad mode instead of tight and it ran worse

[iron acorn]

Not frame debugger. The profiler. It basically tells you what is taking how much time on the cpu.

[rain leaf]

thats because in quad mode you will have more overdraw.
Seems like yous scene has many objects thats stacked on top of each other.
Also, if your sprite use alpha blending instead of alpha cutoff, that could make performance even worse
If you dont mind show us your scene which lags badly

[odd arrow]

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[stoic mesa]

sorry i didn't express myself clearly. i mean it's hard to know what to optimize for render time even if i can look at the profiler and see on a high level what it's doing to prepare for rendering. but maybe i can have a closer look

[stoic mesa]

that's right.

and yeah we use alpha blending. we could try cutoff. wonder if the edges will look ok that way.

and yes there's a lot of sprites stacked on top of each other. many sprites block most of what's behind. i wonder if we can do some sort of occlusion culling instead of what unity is doing now. which is it just renders everything from back to front. there's a lot of waste.

are there ways to make that better?

[iron acorn]

Or you could share some of that profiler info here and ask for advice.

[urban moon]

still getting crash on launch with my android game when build with latest ads mediation 9.0 and latest adapter (unity ads, meta, ad mobs) [unity 6000.0.59f2]. Everything is setup correctly like in previous version (ad mobs enabled, app ids set; levelplay app keys set, declare AD_ID permissions checked, automatically add installed networks Skadnetworks checked)

i grapped a log with logcat on my rooted phone:

Unknown bits set in runtime_flags: 0x8000
com.xxx.xxx
2025-10-09 12:49:30.219 16558 16558

AndroidRuntime
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.xxx.xxx, PID: 16558
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.google.android.gms.ads.MobileAdsInitProvider:
java.lang.IllegalStateException
com.xxx.xxx
2025-10-09 12:49:30.984 16558 16558

MQSEventManagerDelegate
failed to get MQSService.
com.xxx.xxx
2025-10-09 12:49:30.986 16558 16558

EDIT: seem to be fixed when manually adding to androidmanifest:
<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION_ID" android:value="ca-app-pub-XXX"/>

So unity does not add the meta data correctly.

[heavy hare]

Can you test deep linking in the Editor?

[pearl marlin]

both level play and google mobile ads plugin have things to add this for you so its strange this didnt happen

[urban moon]

yeah usually it has been working in previous versions

[pearl marlin]

i guess you can double check both to see what went wrong

but good you found the solution

[mellow rampart]

Hi @brazen birch
Thanks for the response.
Is it okay If I DM you regarding this?

I am having an AndroidManifest.xml file with the mentioned permissions along with a .androidlib folder where I have the xml file and the Java code as you mentioned.
I am having errors during the apk build stage related to the java code not being able to compile due to dependency issues.
It is small project should I share the github link so that you can help me out what I am doing wrong...

[lone oak]

I am Omar, an ASO expert, with a long experience in the field of marketing, games and applications to obtain the best results for your project

I offer you to join you, I'm here to help

[brazen birch]

If that was true, you would have posted your "hire me" somewhere appropriate.

[brazen birch]

Hi Syed, I probably can't help much more than that I'm afraid, I'm mostly working in Unreal now and haven't touched Unity in a very long time

[mellow rampart]

Understable.
Thanks for guidance anyways.
Atleast I know I am heading in the right direction.

[lone oak]

Yes, this is true, I'm going to publish in, I didn't know that there was a special place

[somber panther]

Hello, I'd like to buy some Unity Android Game Sources, specifically fighting game (similar to these ones : Vita Fighters, Final Fighter, etc). DM me if you got.

[midnight musk]

sliders not working for anyone else over on iOS 18.7+?

[eternal wedge]

Anyone has idea what is going on here? The last thing I can see in logcat is [ADV-LOG] Updating ConsentInformation and then it is in stall - no errors, nothing... ``` public async Task<bool> RequestConsentAsync()
{
// Ensure we are on Unity's main thread
await Task.Yield();

     var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();

     Logger.Log("[ADV-LOG] Creating ConsentRequestParameters");
     ConsentRequestParameters request = new ConsentRequestParameters();

     Logger.Log("[ADV-LOG] Updating ConsentInformation");
     ConsentInformation.Update(request, (FormError consentError) =>
     {
         if (consentError != null)
         {
             Logger.LogError("[ADV-LOG] Consent update error: " + consentError.Message);
             tcs.SetResult(false);
             return;
         }

         Logger.Log("[ADV-LOG] ConsentInformation updated. Loading consent form if required.");
         ConsentForm.LoadAndShowConsentFormIfRequired(async (FormError formError) =>
         {
             if (formError != null)
             {
                 Logger.LogError("[ADV-LOG] Consent form error: " + formError.Message);
                 tcs.SetResult(false);
                 return;
             }

             bool obtained = ConsentInformation.ConsentStatus == ConsentStatus.Obtained;
             Logger.Log("[ADV-LOG] Consent gathered: " + obtained);

             if (obtained && ConsentInformation.CanRequestAds())
             {
                 Logger.Log("[ADV-LOG] Initializing MobileAds...");
                 await InitializeAdsAsync();
             }

             tcs.SetResult(obtained);
         });
     });

     return await tcs.Task;
 }```

[iron acorn]

Can you explain the issue properly? Is the app freezing?

[eternal wedge]

No, not at all, it still runs at 60FPS

I tried to remove consent and just intialize ads and it works perfectly

[iron acorn]

Try stepping through the code with a debugger

[eternal wedge]

I did that, I used Android Logcat and the last log is that Updating consent Information

[iron acorn]

debugger

Not logs

[eternal wedge]

Oh, yeah, I get it now, I will check it

[slim yoke]

How do I use android device explorer

It's blank for me

[brazen birch]

There are places like /r/INAT and of course the official unity discussions

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[karmic frigate]

Hi there, I am dealing with this problem since tomorrow, please can anybody help me with it

When I go to this location, I dont know what to do

[iron acorn]

Use the copy path button, paste it in windows explorer and see if there are actually files at that path.

[karmic frigate]

ok, which path to copy

[mighty rivet]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[iron acorn]

The one that the error message is referring to.
I'd also check Hunanbean reply as it seem like a common issue that is easily googleable.