Anyone know if Unity supports Android 8 / Android O / Api 26 in 5.6.2?

Hey all,

Does anyone know if there's any reason to 'not' build against the latest SDK, any known issues? I can't spot any mention of Android 8 being specifically supported in Unity 5.6.2, thanks!

 

I haven't built against the latest SDK, but apps built against Nougat SDK work fine in android O, at least in my experience.

 

Well I've got the latest API installed, but not sure whether it's being picked up or not. Unity doesn't have it selectable as an option in the minimum api level, but perhaps it's just compiled against by being installed?! Either way it hasn't seemed to cause any issues for devices for me.. but yet to test a device Android 8.

 

Thanks, yea I wasn't going to set as minimum. It was just a cautionary question.. the thing is I'd seen on wiki that Android O was released a couple of weeks back.. but perhaps it was just a beta and I misread. The Android SDK Manager also has it listed which lead me to thinking it was out. Anyway, I was more just putting it out there to see if anyone was like - STAY AWAY from it. I've just had issues before where I've grabbed the latest SDK api and then it's caused issues with my compile process, but I haven't seen any hiccups at all.

 

Does anyone know which will be the oldest version of Unity that will see support for Android 8? Ie will we see support for it in Unity 5.6, 5.5 or even 5.4?

 

@Yury-Habets We're building for Android from Unity 2017.1.1f1 and we're still getting the Android O black screen issue, Android SDK is completely up to date and the target API drop-down is set to it's default of maximum installed. Any thoughts on some things we could try?

 

Awesome, thanks a lot!

 

@Yury-Habets : We installed latest 2017.1.1p2 but, we still didn't see Android Oreo in Target API dropdown list.
Are we missing anything? We have Latest Android Oreo SDK platform installed.

 

Cool! Thanks for confirming

 

@Yury-Habets , im using unity5.6.1f1 and built on Android 8 device. And some UI can't display and crash . What can i do? Should i update a latest version of unity or latest sdk build tool ?? Please tell me .
Regard!

 

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I installed latest Unity 2017.3.0b5 (64-bit) and was trying to set target version api to 26.

Just installed sdk 26 for android studio and can select api 26 in android studio, but in unity only api 25 is available.
Path to the sdk is correct.

p.s. Same thing here http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1393684/build-for-android-o-target-api-26-not-available.html

 

what about api 27?

 

It is confusing that Unity lists up to API 25 only in "Target API Level" - but if you have 26 installed, it will use it when you choose "Automatic (highest installed)".
Why does it not list all of those installed?

 

Hey Yury, how is the status now? I'm using 2017.3.0p1 and API 26 and 27 is still not being displayed.
Its been 4 months... that's a little long don't you think?

 

One extra vote for explicit API 26 support.

We can't use API 27 due to an Android 8.0 crash on Admob (as distributed with Appodeal) here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...ateexception-only-fullscreen-activities-can-r

It's easy to target API 26 locally just by uninstalling the SDK, but now we have *no way* to target API 26 using Unity Cloud Build.

And this is why modern "indie" development is a continual disaster of telling four different companies that version X of Y with Z of W is breaking with your use of version P of Q. Seriously, some days I swear I might as well be back in a large company again.

 

I wonder if just hacking PlayerSettings.asset and typing 26 for AndroidTargetSdkVersion works...

And I wonder what will happen on a UCB machine even if it works on mine. AH well, only one way to find out...

 

Have you tried it? Got any success?

 

Yes and yes. Basically, as far as I can see, that Enum is treated as an int internally, and everything works from there, including UCB.

Which is really intelligent design by the Unity engineers because it means you can pretty much always target any minSDK, it's just that the Editor UI might not be up to date.

Of course, it would be wonderful if the docs mentioned details like this rather than always seeming like an exercise in writing the minimum-possible-documentation that is guaranteed not to say anything inaccurate, but they're slowly getting better. We finally have official confirmation of the internal behaviour of MeshFilter.mesh (which everyone always knew, it just wasn't really explained in any concrete technical terms), for example.

 

NO, This is not working for me. In PlayerSetting.asset file I've changed AndroidTargetSdkVersion to 26 from 0. And for testing I'm using Pixel2 simulator at API level 26, But is not working. It is showing a black screen while running the game.

 

Hi all, i' ve a problem using network feature on Android > 8.
The things that is not working is only network feature. My app open a connection trough a php script and makes query to a mysql DB. All the things is working until the Oreo devil version. In this version, every functions works, included the google login plugin (wich uses obviously the network functions) but the app is (apparently) not able anymore to reach the php and the DB because all the output I need is = 0 .

please I'm going mad whit this, I already tried with Internet access ->Require and .Net 2.0 as compatibility level under player settings wich fixed the send email functions in past, wich were not working under OREO.

hope someone can help me!!!

 

this is so annoying. Since I have both Android Studio and Unity in my pc, my Android Studio automatically updated yesterday and the sdk version now is 3.0. Which Unity build doesn't support. And I have to download a sdk 26 again to replace that. Soooo stupid!

 

Hi, I'm seeing some weird behaviour. Unity on Mac - version 5.6.4p4. Also latest Android SDK.
In my project A I was able to hack the ProjectSettings.asset (just opened it with a text editor) file like ferretnt suggested. The project built no problem and Google Play console says the target API of the .apk is 26.
In my project B I'm not able to hack the ProjectSettings file (see screenshot) and even tho target API is set to "Automatic (highest installed)", the built .apk has target API at 22.

screenshot

 

Hi Yury-Habets,
the problem is I have the SDK 26 installed - and even tho "Automatic (highest installed)" is selected, the target level ends up to be 22 (according to Google Play Console). Is there some sort of cache I can delete so Unity refreshes the info on the installed SDK?

 

Hi JuliusM. Thanks! That was it! Changing the XML manifest did the trick

 

JuliusM Thank you So much Sir . You are Awesome and good !!!

 

I'm stumped. I've chosen "use highest installed" in Unity and in Android Studio, I have ONLY 26+ installed because I explicitly uninstalled all the earlier versions via Studio's SDK manager. Still my output APKs from Unity indicate:

platformBuildVersionCode="25"

If I don't have 25 installed, how is Unity building against it? How do I troubleshoot this?

 

Hi. The target list is not just cosmetic. We have several build machines with several different versions of SDKs installed for several projects. We need to be able to lock the SDK version on a per-project basis. Also, we frequently install new SDKs and if we just use latest any such update would accidentally be shipped without any QA. I repeat that we can NOT take the risk with just "use latest", and require the ability to lock the version.

Why are you telling your customers something is cosmetic when it clearly isn't?

Thanks.

 

same here.. how? I'm using unity 5.6 and no option for api 26.. and this coming nov google play wont accept api 25 below..I already install api 26..see in attachment but still showing api lower than that I use this code to check the api version
static int getSDKInt() {
using (var version = new AndroidJavaClass("android.os.Build$VERSION")) {
return version.GetStatic<int>("SDK_INT");
}
}

 

Currently using 5.5.6 (Can't upgrade it for reasons)
I have installed API 26 to 28 in the SDK, but there's no option to select that 26. (max is API 23)
Any help?

 

I have a confusion. I have API 28 installed and I have selected Automatically installed but when I uploaded the apk to developer console, it gives me the warning again that my apk is not targeting API 26.
Anyone else has the same issue?

 

Hello All
i have same problem
but i choose Highest installed
and also
google play say it is not support api 26 and target api 25
so what can i do now ! ?

 

Hello m-y did you check your manifest files in project and its targetversionsdk " ? "

 

Hi,
If you have "target api 26 not available", try below:
1/ Install Android Studio
2/ Open Android Studio, go to SDK Manager and install the SDK platforms with API level of 26 and above
3/ Copy the link of Android SDK Location (Ex: C:\Users\NoName\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk)
4/ Open Unity, go to Edit> Reference> External tools and paste the link above to [SDK]
5/ Close and reopen Unity, choose Target API level with Automatic (highest installed) and build apk
Hope this help.