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Any tips for Optimising non game apps

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  1. N_Murray

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    As the title says I'm wondering if anyone of you have any tips for optimising builds for non game related apps. Im currently looking into the best way to strip the physics engine from the build as I can imagine that would make things a little more lightweight.
    Oh and I know there is much better ways ways of building non game apps however I know Unity and I'm only interested in making small personal apps so I'm not interested in learning another ide.
    So any tips? I'm sure some other people have done the same thing so what have you found useful?
     
    N_Murray, Jun 20, 2019
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  2. MrArcher

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    If you're using 2017.2 or later, you can disable various engine modules using the Package Manager. On the upper left, select built-in packages and disable physics from there.

     
    MrArcher, Jun 20, 2019
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  3. N_Murray

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    I didn't realise it was that simple with the package manager. I still haven't really looked into some of the newer unity features. Thanks for that, any more hints and tips more than welcome
     
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  4. TonyLi

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    Removing packages that you're not using, while satisfying for tidiness fans, probably won't give you the biggest bang for the buck in performance. I recommend using the Profiler to identify the actual bottlenecks. (See Understanding optimization in Unity)
     
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  5. N_Murray

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    Some very useful information there, I'll bookmark that
     
    N_Murray, Jun 20, 2019
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  6. BonneCW

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    That's great, didn't notice that yet. Directly removed some stuff from some projects, saves at least a little space :D
    But I guess you meant 2018.2+ when they introduced the package manager.
     
    BonneCW, Jun 20, 2019
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  7. xVergilx

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    If you use IL2CPP, stuff that is not used will get stripped in case you've ticked 'Strip Engine Code' in project settings.

    In general its worth going through and looking at project settings you're using.
    Libs are those things that takes space in empty projects. So make sure you're got a build pipeline (e.g. armv7 vs arm64) that builds separate builds based on the architecture and platform.
     
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    xVergilx, Jun 21, 2019
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  8. SmartMediaNL

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    As an application can be active a long time i found out that it drained the phone batteries. So what i did was limiting the frame rate to 10fps in idle mode and after receiving an input event turn it back to 30fps.
     
    SmartMediaNL, Jun 21, 2019
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  9. Arowx

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    Using DOTS and Burst compiler to optimise your apps usage of multi-core SIMD hardware.
     
    Arowx, Jun 21, 2019
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