Building and publishing
Understand the different ways of building your application during development, and for release.
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When you create a build of your application, you create a Player. A Player is the platform-specific runtime application that Unity builds from your project. You can control how Unity creates a build through Unity's build and player settings.
Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Introduction to building | Understand the fundamentals of Unity's build process, including build modes, incremental building, and platform compatibility. |
| Content output of a build | Information about the files that Unity creates when you make a build of your project. |
| Create a build from the Editor | Use build profiles to build your application for different platforms with unique build configurations. |
| Create a clean build | Rebuild all content from scratch without using cached results to resolve build cache issues. |
| Create a scripts-only build | Build only the scripting assemblies without processing scenes and assets for faster iteration during development. |
| Customize the build pipeline | Create custom scripts and use callbacks to customize the build pipeline and run it from the command line. |
| Include additional files in a build | Use the StreamingAssets folder to include additional files in a build. |
| Reducing the file size of a build | Tips to reduce the size of the build. |
| Deterministic builds | Create consistent, reproducible builds by controlling factors that can cause build variations. |
| Build cache location reference | Reference for where Unity stores build cache files on different operating systems. |