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

Essential Kit V3 is a modular plugin for Unity developers targeting mobile platforms who want to integrate native features for iOS, tvOS, and Android 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 latest OS versions — works with iOS 18 and Android API Level 35
• Minimum Deployment — compatible with devices running iOS 15+ and Android 5.0 (API Level 21) and above

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Used by 25,000+ developers worldwide

🎉 New Features 🎉

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

🎉 Upcoming

• On popular demand, we started working for Android PC Support

🎁 Bonus for Customers!

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

📌 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 for Android/iOS settings

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

✔ Complete ASMDEF Support – Improved project organization

✔ Full Source Code Included – Transparency and flexibility

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

✔ Works with Unity Cloud Build & Batch Mode

✔ Actively Supported Since 2015 🚀

🔥 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 (for iOS) and Billing Client 7.1.1 (for Android)

☁️ Cloud Services – Sync Data Seamlessly

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

🔗 Deep Link Services – Smart Linking to Content

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

🏆 Game Services – Competitive Features for Players

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

📷 Media Services – Handle Images & Videos

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

🖥️ Native UI – Platform-Specific Dialogs & Pickers

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

🌐 Network Services – Detect Connectivity

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

🔔 Notification Services – Keep Users Engaged

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

⭐ Rate My App – Encourage Store Ratings

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

📤 Sharing – Seamless Content Sharing

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

⏳ Task Services – Run Tasks in Background Efficiently

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

🛠️ Utilities – Essential Tools

• Open application settings
• Open app store page

🌍 Web View – Integrated In-App Browser

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

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

📌 Notes

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

📈 Upgrade Strategy

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

🔍 More info

💡 Why Choose Us?

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

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

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

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

📦 Third-Party Compatibility

• Works seamlessly with Anti-Cheat Toolkit

Questions? Contact our support team

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

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