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com.unity.purchasing

IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTES:

If updating from Unity IAP (com.unity.purchasing + the Asset Store plugin) versions 2.x to version 3.x, complete the following actions in order to resolve compilation errors:
 1. Move IAPProductCatalog.json and BillingMode.json
	FROM: Assets/Plugins/UnityPurchasing/Resources/
	TO: Assets/Resources/.
 2. Move AppleTangle.cs and GooglePlayTangle.cs
	FROM: Assets/Plugins/UnityPurchasing/generated
	TO: Assets/Scripts/UnityPurchasing/generated.
 3. Remove all remaining Asset Store plugin folders and files in Assets/Plugins/UnityPurchasing from your project.

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:

With Unity IAP, setting up in-app purchases for your game across multiple app stores has never been easier.

This package provides:

 ▪ One common API to access all stores for free so you can fully understand and optimize your in-game economy
 ▪ Automatic coupling with Unity Analytics to enable monitoring and decision-making based on trends in your revenue and purchase data across multiple platforms
 ▪ Support for iOS, Mac, tvOS, Google Play, Windows, and Amazon app stores(*).
 ▪ Support to work with the Unity Distribution Portal to synchronize catalogs and transactions with other app stores
 ▪ Client-side receipt validation for Apple App Store and Google Play

After installing this package, open the Services Window to enable In-App Purchasing to use these features.

com.unity.remote-config

Remote Config is a cloud service that lets you tune and customize your app over the air without requiring an update to your game.  You can use rules to enable or disable features, change the difficulty of your game or run special events to target specific audiences.  Campaigns control when updates are applied and to whom, while Unity manages delivery of your game content with minimal performance impact. 

Remote Config can be configured via the editor or through our public API’s.  Functionality includes: 
- Release new features without deploying code:
   - Feature flagging
   - Staged Rollouts
   - Kill switch functionality
   - Start & End Date
   - Enable & disable rules
- Personalized real-time segmentation with custom attributes
   - Custom conditions for applying setting variants
   - Device, user, game and other arbitrary attributes supporting
- Reporting
   - Tracing ID for decorating analytics events

Remote Config is a cloud service that lets you tune and customize your app over the air without requiring an update to your game.  You can use rules to enable or disable features, change the difficulty of your game or run special events to target specific audiences.  Rules control when updates are applied and to whom, while Unity manages delivery of your game content with minimal performance impact. 

Remote Config can be configured via the editor or through our public API’s.  Functionality includes: 
   - Release new features without deploying code:
   - Feature flagging
   - Staged Rollouts
   - Kill switch functionality
   - Start & End Date
   - Enable & disable rules
   - Personalized real-time segmentation with custom attributes
   - Custom conditions for applying setting variants
   - Device, user, game and other arbitrary attributes supporting
   - Tracing ID for decorating analytics events

Remote Config is a cloud service that lets you tune and customize your app over the air without requiring an update to your game.  You can use rules to enable or disable features, change the difficulty of your game or run special events to target specific audiences.  Rules control when updates are applied and to whom, while Unity manages delivery of your game content with minimal performance impact. 

Remote Config can be configured via the editor or through our public API’s.  Functionality includes: 
- Release new features without deploying code:
   - Feature flagging
   - Staged Rollouts
   - Kill switch functionality
   - Start & End Date
   - Enable & disable rules
- Personalized real-time segmentation with custom attributes
   - Custom conditions for applying setting variants
   - Device, user, game and other arbitrary attributes supporting
- Reporting
   - Tracing ID for decorating analytics events

com.unity.services.analytics

The Unity Analytics package automatically collects core events and user properties when someone uses your game or application, and enables you to track specific in-game actions your user performs by defining custom events. The data collected from this package is surfaced in the Unity dashboard where you can use it to gather user insights, segment your player base and make informed decisions around the optimization of your game.

com.unity.services.authentication

Client SDK offering player identity management for Unity Gaming Services.

Identity providers can be configured from the editor or the Unity Dashboard.

Player management is available in the Unity Dashboard.

com.unity.services.ccd-client

API SDK Package for communicating with Cloud Content Delivery Client Service

com.unity.services.ccd.management

Cloud Content Delivery (CCD) is a managed cloud service that hosts and delivers live content to your application’s users worldwide. Note: The Addressables package (1.19.6+) contains features that utilize this SDK to manage CCD.

com.unity.services.cloud-diagnostics

This package is a suite of cloud enabled tools that help you collect and identify issues that users encounter with your apps.

com.unity.services.cloudcode

Run your game logic in the cloud as serverless functions and interact with other backend services.

This package allows you to call out to Cloud Code from within your project as a secure player.

Cloud Code can be used to: 
-Change game logic for all players without re-distributing your game 
-Grant timed rewards 
-Create randomized values

com.unity.services.cloudsave

Build better player experiences with seamless game data stored securely in the cloud.

Use Cloud Save to store your players’ progress and preferences, by doing so you can share this data between all the players’ devices and any game backend services.

com.unity.services.core

This package defines common components used by multiple Game Service packages.
These are standardized and aim to unify the overall experience of working with Game Services SDK.

This package defines common components used by multiple Game Service packages.
These are standardized and aim to unify the overall experience of working with Game Services packages.

com.unity.services.economy

Economy is a cloud service that enables game developers to create their in-game economy and gives them seamless purchases, currency conversion, player inventory management, and more. By using Economy, you have the power to integrate a fully-featured marketplace into your game, and manage it through a streamlined dashboard. 

Economy can be configured through the Unity Dashboard. This package allows you to interact with your Economy configuration, player’s balances, inventories and purchases.

Economy is a cloud service that enables game developers to create their in-game economy and gives them seamless purchases, currency conversion, player inventory management, and more. By using Economy, you have the power to integrate a fully-featured marketplace into your game, and manage it through a streamlined dashboard. 

Economy can be configured through the Unity Dashboard. The package provides the ability to interact with the configuration from your game, and update player’s balances and inventories.

com.unity.services.friends

The Friends service allows you to boost player engagement by providing players with a social system that works well with other Unity services. With Friends, your players can send and receive friend requests, build and manage friends lists, and block and unblock other players.

com.unity.services.leaderboards

Add socio-competitive elements to your game by allowing users to compete on leaderboards. Use the Leaderboards service to store, sort, and rank player scores powered by Unity Gaming Services.

com.unity.services.lobby

Enable players to find, create, and join lobbies with Lobby. Add Lobby to your multiplayer game to empower players to create the gaming experiences they want. Features include Quick Join, Public Lobby, and Private Match to allow flexibility in how players want to game with each other.

com.unity.services.matchmaker

Unity Matchmaker is part of Unity's growing suite of multiplayer services that are designed to help you create and operate multiplayer games no matter what engine you're using.

com.unity.services.multiplay

The Multiplay SDK provides functionality to facilitate Multiplay services.

com.unity.services.relay

Connect the players of your peer-hosted games with Relay. Your games will also benefit from improved reliability, privacy and the ability to communicate across platforms. To get started, enable listen-server UDP networking for your project on the Unity Dashboard.

Features include an allocation service to join game hosts via code, multi-region support, and more.

com.unity.services.user-reporting

This package is a SDK toolset that helps you collect and identify issues that users or testers encounter with your apps.

com.unity.services.vivox

Unity's voice and text chat service for multiplayer communication offers voice chat and direct message text service with a managed hosted solution. Plug into your game and configure your project settings to add communications to your project immediately. Connect an unlimited number of users in 2D and 3D channels. Monitor concurrency on your dashboard. Add a custom UI to allow players to control voice volume, mute, and add audio effects to voice channels and manage them. Place users in team chat and allow them to participate in multiple channels.

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What's the difference between managed and unmanaged hosting?#

What's the difference between managed and unmanaged hosting?