Essential Kit boosts mobile game dev with Leaderboards, Achievements, Web View, IAP, Notifications, Sharing, Media Library, Cloud Save, App Shortcuts, Background Processing, Deep Links, and Rating.
Description
Essential Kit V3 is a modular Unity plugin built for mobile game developers who want to integrate native iOS, tvOS and Android features without juggling multiple SDKs or writing platform-specific code.
Whether you’re launching a casual game or scaling a live service title, Essential Kit simplifies adding in-app purchases, cloud save, leaderboards, achievements, push notifications, local notifications, deep linking, address book access, app shortcuts, app update prompts, rating, background task execution, media capture and sharing, native UI dialogs, real-time network monitoring, and in-app web views—all through a unified, mobile-optimized API for Unity.
| Earlier known as Cross-Platform Native Plugins: Essential Kit
✅ Future Ready
Supports iOS 18 & Android API 35
Minimum Deployment: iOS 15+, Android API 21+
🌟 450+ five-star reviews
Used by 25,000+ developers worldwide
🎉 New Features 🎉
App Shortcuts – Add shortcuts for app icons dynamically
Task Services – Run tasks in the background seamlessly
tvOS Support (Beta)
🎉 Upcoming
On popular demand, we started working on Android PC Support
🎁 Bonus for Customers!
We Open Sourced Ads Kit – This helps in integrating Ads in your games easily! (No code required!)
📌 Important Links
Unity Forum Thread
Tutorials
API Reference
Support
Roadmap
Upgrade Guide
✨ Highlights
✔ Unified API Design – Write one codebase for all platforms!
✔ Easy Installation – Set up in minutes
✔ No Native Knowledge Required – We handle the complexity
✔ Editor Simulation – Test most features without a device
✔ Auto Manifest Generation – No need to manually modify Android/iOS settings
✔ Selective Features – Include only what you need to keep builds lightweight
✔ Complete ASMDEF Support – Improved project organization
✔ Full Source Code Included – Transparency and flexibility
✔ Detailed Tutorials – Step-by-step guides for setup
✔ Works with Unity Cloud Build & Batch Mode
✔ Actively Supported Since 2015 🚀
🔥 Features
📒 Address Book – Access User Contacts
Fetch contacts from the user’s address book
Apply constraints (e.g., must include email, phone number)
Supports pagination for large contact lists
📌 App Shortcuts – Quick Access from App Icon
Dynamically add/remove shortcuts for app icons
Customize shortcuts with icons & actions
📢 App Updater – Keep Users on the Latest Version
Detect if an update is available for the app
Prompt users to update optionally or forcefully
🛒 Billing Services (IAP) – Secure In-App Purchases
Fetch product details from stores
Supports Consumable & Non-Consumable items
Handles Subscriptions & Multi-Tier Offers
Restore purchases
Uses StoreKit v2 (iOS) and Billing Client 7.1.1 (Android)
☁️ Cloud Services – Sync Data Seamlessly
Sync game data across devices for free
Auto-syncs with iCloud (iOS) & Saved Games (Android)
Supports multiple data types (long, string, byte array, etc.)
🔗 Deep Link Services – Smart Linking to Content
Supports Universal Links (iOS) & App Links (Android)
Works with custom URL schemes
Retrieve deep link data easily
🏆 Game Services – Competitive Features for Players
Authentication (Game Center on iOS, Google Play Services on Android)
Leaderboards – Submit and display scores
Achievements – Track and reward player progress
Custom UI Support for Leaderboards & Achievements
Attach Tags to leaderboard scores for better context tracking
📷 Media Services – Handle Images & Videos
Select, Capture, Save media content
Works with multiple file formats
No additional permissions required where applicable
🖥️ Native UI – Platform-Specific Dialogs & Pickers
Native alert dialogs with text fields & buttons
Date & Time Pickers
🌐 Network Services – Detect Connectivity
Check online status at runtime
Event-based updates when network status changes
🔔 Notification Services – Keep Users Engaged
Local & Push Notifications
Supports time-based & calendar-based triggers
Custom payload keys for advanced use cases
Repeat Scheduling and Persistence after reboot
⭐ Rate My App – Encourage Store Ratings
Auto-prompt users based on pre-set conditions
Native store rating dialogs
Optional pre-confirmation dialog
📤 Sharing – Seamless Content Sharing
Generic share sheet
Share via Messages, Email, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter
Supports multiple attachments
⏳ Task Services – Run Tasks in Background Efficiently
Keep tasks running even when the app is backgrounded
Auto-handles background processing quota expiration
🛠️ Utilities – Essential Tools
Open application settings
Open app store page
🌍 Web View – Integrated In-App Browser
Load local & remote webpages
Supports custom dimensions
Evaluate JavaScript inside WebView
Receive messages from web pages
Access native file dialogs & camera from WebView
🎯 Includes Ads Support (can have mediation) from Ads Kit
📌 Notes
Add “com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json”: “2.0.0” (or higher) to Packages/manifest.json
tvOS platform doesn’t support features like Address Book, App Shortcuts, Media Library, Web View, Date Picker and Sharing – As these are natively not supported or allowed by tvOS platform. But rest of the features are supported and unsupported features has null implementations ready.
📈 Upgrade Strategy
We regularly update the plugin to stay compliant with evolving platform guidelines, OS changes, and industry standards. A minimal upgrade fee is applied for each major version.
🔍 More info
💡 Why Choose Us?
✅ Custom-Coded & Privacy-First – No third-party dependencies
✅ Fastest Native API Updates – Always the first to adopt latest changes
✅ Automated Setup – Manifest generation, dependencies, and post-processing
✅ Future-Proof – Open-sourcing major components to avoid vendor lock-in
📦 Third-Party Compatibility
Works seamlessly with Anti-Cheat Toolkit
Questions? Contact our support team
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Essential Kit – The Ultimate Mobile Starter Kit for Game Developers!
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