🛠️Utilities (Extras)

Cross-platform utilities for app store navigation and system settings access

Essential Kit's Utilities feature provides cross-platform helpers for common mobile operations: opening app store pages, directing users to system settings, and retrieving age compliance signals from the platform. This tutorial shows you how to add these essential capabilities without platform-specific code.

Using PlayMaker? See the PlayMaker guide: PlayMaker.

Looking for a working reference? Check the demo implementations in other Essential Kit feature demos that use Utilities for permission recovery and app store navigation.

What You'll Learn

• Open app store pages for reviews, cross-promotion, and updates

• Direct users to system settings when permissions are denied

• Handle platform-specific app identifiers correctly

• Request age compliance information using platform-provided age signals

Why Utilities Matters

• Business impact: Drive ratings and cross-promote companion apps

• UX impact: Help users fix permission issues without confusion and respect age-appropriate content gates

• Technical impact: No custom native code for store links or settings access

Tutorial Roadmap

1. Setup - Enable utilities and configure app store IDs

2. Usage - Store pages, application settings, and age compliance APIs

3. Testing - Verify navigation and age compliance flows on both platforms

Key Use Cases

• Open app store page to encourage ratings and reviews

• Navigate to companion app or DLC listings for cross-promotion

• Guide users to system settings after permission denial

• Direct users to app settings for manual permission grants

• Fetch declared age signals to choose the correct content experience

Prerequisites

• Unity project with Essential Kit v3 installed

• iOS App Store ID (numeric) or Android package name configured

• Test devices to verify store and settings navigation

https://github.com/voxelbusters/essential-kit-docs/blob/master/tutorials/v3/features/utilities/setup.mdUsagehttps://github.com/voxelbusters/essential-kit-docs/blob/master/tutorials/v3/features/utilities/testing.md