NATIVE PLUGINS for Unity: iOS, Android [Need Prime31 / Easy Mobile / Stans Assets replacement??]

Sure, please also mention whats the difference between current and new, to convince existing users to upgrade (im already convinced)
how 2.0 is going to make life easier, and whether it supports Unity 2020.1+2 or not

 

@Voxel-Busters
Hi , when existing users will see upgrade price for 2.0?

 

Should be up in a while!

 

V2.0 is out now! It's Cross Platform Native Plugins 2.0 : Essential Kit

V2.0 offers much better workflow, new features and will be updated periodically. It's totally re-written from scratch for better performance and modified api for better extensibility. We considered the feedback provided by you and redesigned the API and workflows for a better experience.

Going further, Our new version 2.0 will be having an upgrade price while offering a huge discount of > 50% for our existing users. This helps us in planning periodic updates, better support and new features.

New support will be on Discord (which is requested by many of you) and we tried to automate as much as possible to have smooth integration.

There are some minor api changes and namespace change which should be straight forward. Existing users can plan for the upgrade and let us know if you have any difficulties integrating.

We will deprecate old package soon in favour of V2.0.

From past 5 years we offered free upgrades and we are pushing our limits to make this product to have a better future. Thanks a lot guys for supporting all of our products!

Cheers,
VB Team

 

Hi, im interested in buying your asset but have a question first.

Im mainly interested due to the Share functionality, in particular, I want to share to Facebook. I would like to share a video and some text to facebook.

Is this possible?

I also see the note that states the plugin does not include the Facebook SDK. Does this mean, i have to include it manually or that your plugin does not need it.

Thanks,

Adam

 

Thanks for contacting us.

Pre-Filled Text sharing is against the Facebook policy (2.3), so its not available in the plugin.

We don't use Facebook SDK with in our plugin but we use a generic way of sharing the content. So these features comes with out the use of FB SDK.

We currently have only Texture and Screenshot sharing for Facebook and soon we add for video too.
Please check this tutorial for more details.

Thanks,
VB Team

 

Hi! tried to use DatePicker ios throws error https://pastebin.com/u54ubDNW

 

Hi!

We’ve discovered your plug-in for Unity and would like to propose a collaboration. Could you please tell me how I can contact you to discuss all the details and give you a more prominent idea of what we have in mind?

Regards

 

Hi, I have a few questions about the assets features. Does this plugin allow for our app to request the users email address and their phone number?

Thanks

 

I sent you a pm.

 

Yes, it does. We have AddressBook feature in the plugin which can request the user's contacts.

 

We are on it. We get you the update on Discord!

 

Hi! I am trying to use RateMyApp on Android. Everything works fine in the Unity editor: a modal window is displayed with an offer to rate the application, next opened google play url. On Android, there is no reaction to rate button presses.

 

Date Picker along with Time Picker is available in 2.0.1 and is under review on Asset store.

 

Version 1 or Version 2?

 

Version 2.0 (last update)

 

If you used internal sharing for distributing the apk, Posting is disabled. Please update to 2.0.1 version where we used latest library recently released from Android.
Here is the upgrade guide for version 2.0.1

If you still see an issue please ping us on discord to have a look.

Thanks,
VB Team

 

The problem persists in version 2.0.1. The release version also has a problem.

 

Hi,
I'm not sure if you contact our support team on discord but just wanted to check if you are still facing the issue.

Thanks,
VB Team

 

@Voxel-Busters Is Amazon Appstore IAP supported in 2.0?

 

Hi,

Could you add a feature about Vibrate?
Vibrate feature can adjust time and effect.

 

Nope. Unfortunately, thats something not much requested. But it will be covered once we have the Unity IAP wrapper linked with the plugin.

 

It would be great if you can add more details about the expectation in the feedback channel on our discord support.

 

Thanks for replay.
We find a Vibration plugin on assetstore, will try it first.

 

@Voxel-Busters I have Cross Platform Native Plugins Version 1.5.7p3. I'm using Unity 2020.2.2f1 and I get this error:
Unable to find explicit activity class {com.twosixsevenindustries.kathie/com.voxelbusters.nativeplugins.features.sharing.SharingActivity

This is the AndroidManifest

Code (Boo):

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
2. <!--AUTO GENERATED MANIFEST FILE FROM AndroidManifestGenerator. DONT MODIFY HERE.-->
3. <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.voxelbusters.androidnativeplugin" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0">
4.   <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" android:targetSdkVersion="26" />
5.   <application>
6.     <!--Sharing-->
7.     <activity android:name="com.voxelbusters.nativeplugins.features.sharing.SharingActivity" android:theme="@style/FloatingActivityTheme" />
8.     <!--Media Library : For custom camera access-->
9.     <activity android:name="com.voxelbusters.nativeplugins.features.medialibrary.CameraActivity" android:theme="@style/FloatingActivityTheme" />
10.     <!--UI  : Generic helper activity for launching Dialogs-->
11.     <activity android:name="com.voxelbusters.nativeplugins.features.ui.UiActivity" android:theme="@style/FloatingActivityTheme" />
12.     <!--Game Play Services helper activity-->
13.     <activity android:name="com.voxelbusters.nativeplugins.helpers.PermissionRequestActivity" android:theme="@style/FloatingActivityTheme" />
14.     <!--Custom File Provider. Sharing from internal folders  "com.voxelbusters.nativeplugins.extensions.FileProviderExtended"-->
15.     <provider android:name="com.voxelbusters.nativeplugins.extensions.FileProviderExtended" android:authorities="com.twosixsevenindustries.kathie.fileprovider" android:exported="false" android:grantUriPermissions="true">
16.       <meta-data android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS" android:resource="@xml/nativeplugins_file_paths" />
17.     </provider>
18.   </application>
19.   <!--Permissions-->
20.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for Samsung Devices-->
21.   <uses-permission android:name="com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.READ" />
22.   <uses-permission android:name="com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.WRITE" />
23.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for HTC Devices-->
24.   <uses-permission android:name="com.htc.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS" />
25.   <uses-permission android:name="com.htc.launcher.permission.UPDATE_SHORTCUT" />
26.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for Sony Devices-->
27.   <uses-permission android:name="com.sonyericsson.home.permission.BROADCAST_BADGE" />
28.   <uses-permission android:name="com.sonymobile.home.permission.PROVIDER_INSERT_BADGE" />
29.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for Apex Devices-->
30.   <uses-permission android:name="com.anddoes.launcher.permission.UPDATE_COUNT" />
31.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for Solid Devices-->
32.   <uses-permission android:name="com.majeur.launcher.permission.UPDATE_BADGE" />
33.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for Huawei Devices-->
34.   <uses-permission android:name="com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.CHANGE_BADGE" />
35.   <uses-permission android:name="com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS" />
36.   <uses-permission android:name="com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />
37.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for ZUK Devices-->
38.   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_APP_BADGE" />
39.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for Oppo Devices-->
40.   <uses-permission android:name="com.oppo.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS" />
41.   <uses-permission android:name="com.oppo.launcher.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />
42.   <!--Notifications : Badge Permission for EverythingMe Support-->
43.   <uses-permission android:name="me.everything.badger.permission.BADGE_COUNT_READ" />
44.   <uses-permission android:name="me.everything.badger.permission.BADGE_COUNT_WRITE" />
45.   <!--Required for internet access-->
46.   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
47. </manifest>

Can you help me out please?

 

Hi there,

I've just bought the essentials kit and I'm planning to use it to help create a sort of socially networked game where I will try to identify via phone numbers which of the users contacts are using the game. I can see how to use the contacts service, but I can't see how to find out the details of the current phone, i.e the phone number and any other personal details that might be available for current user. Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks

 

Hi. I have a pdf file. I put this in an unity project. I would like to download it to the local storage and open it. Is there anythıng about this in the asset?

 

@SkyWalkerMK @unity_ANdq1DQ_78jrEQ Please post your queries on our Discord support.

 

May I know your target SDK and device you are running on?
We request you to update to 2.x as it has latest sdk support.

Thanks,
VB Team

 

Hi. Can't find in docs if your plugin can load player's IScore from leaderboard, to gets its rank for ex.

 

I keep getting kicked out of the discord support? not sure why, I got in, posted 1 question, then got kicked out, I've rejoined it 3 or 4 times and I've been kicked out within minutes every time? I bought the essential kit on the asset store... Not sure whats going on.

 

Hi,
Could you add feature for WebView can set WebView Frame size like ver 1?
e.g.
WebView.Frame = new Rect(startX, startY, width, height);
I hope that WebView can be used in combine with Unity UI like ver 1.

 

Is there a way to know when the user open the app by clicking on a push notification ?
like with the function DidLaunchWithLocalNotificationEvent of the first version of the plugin

 

I am using Unity2018.4.23f1, try to build apk in gradle.
I have FaceBookSDK8.1.1 and Cross-Platform-Native-Plugins1.5.7

When I build I got these error :
CommandInvokationFailure: Gradle build failed.
C:/Users/Dev_User/Desktop/sdk_jdk_folders(1903)/jdk1.8.0_131\bin\java.exe -classpath "C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2018.4.23f1\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer\Tools\gradle\lib\gradle-launcher-5.1.1.jar" org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain "-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096m" "assembleRelease"

stderr[

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file 'D:\lobby\Temp\gradleOut\native_plugins_lib\build.gradle' line: 3

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':native_plugins_lib'.
> Could not get unknown property 'GradleVersion' for repository container of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.DefaultRepositoryHandler.

* 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 8s
]

 

Hi, We were using Unity 2018.4.3 and Cross-Platform-Native-Plugins1.5.7 for share services.
I'm trying to upgrade to Unity 2020.3.2. But on XCode, i get following errors. I think we have same problem with https://forum.unity.com/threads/nat...view-sharing-more.316336/page-17#post-6320733
Yet solution is not on forum. Can you help ?

 

Sounds like you haven't uninstalled the older version. I will continue our discussion in our discord forum.

 

Trying to use the free version for address book access on IOS, pulled it into our project followed the setup guide and in Xcode the app crashes immediately with:

VoxelBusters.EssentialKit.BillingServices.RegisterForEvents couldn't initialise or was null (something like that) in Xcode.

Just trying a rebuild after deleting the billing services plugin from the IOS plugin folder but seems bad.

Edit: deleting all the plugins we don't use worked for us at least, may be worth investigating though

 

Also getting this wonderful error log spam every time I save a script in my project since importing the latest asset store free version of this plugin and it is starting to interfere with Visual Studio loading scripts somehow.

Using Unity 2020.3.0f1 on Mac OS Big Sur 11.2.3

 

Can you please ping us on discord to assist you? Are you using free version of Replay Kit or Essential Kit?

 

I have the paid full version of replay kit and the free version of the native essential kit 2.0 in this project both latest versions. I will find the Discord and respond there when I can, having a break from the PC this weekend.

Edit: This issue went away after reimporting both of the assets, there seems to be some kind of collision between them when imported in a certain order. I am just happy the error is gone for now!

 

Getting this error when trying to build for android using Unity 2020.3.0f1 and Cross Platform Essential Kit v2.0.3 on a windows pc

Code (CSharp):

1. Plugins/Android/com.voxelbusters.essentialkit.androidlib/all_libs/feature.notificationservices.jar

We are simply using address book from this plugin in our app

 

I just made the fix for it. Please update this file and let me know if you still see an issue. I will have a note on the replaykit + free version collision you mentioned. Also will update this patch fix to asset store.

Would request you to join our support over discord.

 

We're currently using the native essential kit 2.0 for reading address book details, and come across the issue where we need to get the company name as well as the first name / surname - currently we are seeing lots of issues raised as contacts come through blank as the names are held in the company name.

Is it possible to extract this field as well?

Thank you!

 

Hello @Voxel-Busters, I would like to ask is it possible to attach a file with UTF8 encoding when sending a email, as it is possible in ver 1.0!

 

This script caused there to be constant build errors on android about billing services needing a public key, deep linking services needing a url etc - we are only using the contacts portion of this plugin, the errors prevented me from building until I commented out line 101 -146 of AndroidBuildProcess.cs. Is there any reason those things are in the Lite version of the Essential Kit when I wasn't able to configure them in the settings file for it?

 

Since using the fix you attached above with essentials kit, we had an issue where OneSignal Notifications SDK crashes due to VoxelBusters Essential Kit Free takes over the notification rights on android through the android manifest file.

Is there a way for us to remove the notification portion from your free essentials kit as we are just using it for Contacts (currently)

This is what happens when we use OneSignal SDK on android to push a test notification, your voxelbusters essential kit crashes the app when receiving a notification.

 

Hi,
We will have a look and update you with the required fixes tomorrow.

 

Fixed this myself today out of impatience by commenting out all references to the notification settings in the android postbuild scripts, is there a reason the free essentials kit inserts loads of features into the built app that the free kit doesn't actually use? It makes sense for them to be unlocked when someone buys the full kit but otherwise until that point if someone wants to use one or two of the free features for a trial they have loads of features like billing, notifications, cloud services inserted into their app manifest which the app doesn't even use.

In our case this broke other plugins when we just wanted to start off with using the Address Book/Contacts feature while we evaluate what else we will use from Voxelbusters.

On another note, is your notification service SDK able to use VOIP calling notifications with Unity? We are evaluating Notification SDK providers for Unity currently and none support VOIP notifications with Unity - I asked on the Discord channel also in the Notification channel.

 

Hello,
I am working on a project which uses Voxel Buster native plugin. I wanted to know about communication between WebView & Unity while WebView is open. Documents says that we need to use url schema method
void AddNewURLSchemeName (string _URLSchemeName)
and implement DidReceiveMessageEvent event to receive any message inside Unity.
Our requirement is when we click a certain element inside WebView that WebViews needs to be closed (destroyed).
So I used above mechanism to establish communication between unity & WebView.
But the problem is this event doesn't receive any message until we close WebView by hitting device back button (On Android). After I see when we open WebView unity gets paused. I want to close WebView when a user clicks on a particular UI element inside WebView. Can someone guide me regarding this issue.

 

So, we reimport the asset and we get the following error:

Code (CSharp):

1. 'JsonUtility' does not contain a definition for 'isNull' (also for 'ToJson' and 'FromJson').

We correct those issues and then over 60 other appear. What's going on? Can't even compile, much less build on iOS.

Unity v2018.4.2f1
Native Plugins v2.0.4

[edit] Correction: We tried again. After changing one reference to FromJson<T> It's not over 60, it's now almost 40.