With Unity powering over half of all mobile titles worldwide, first impressions matter. For game developers, a smooth, reliable player onboarding experience is essential to driving day-one retention and long-term engagement. Yet for years, developers looking to integrate Google authentication into Unity games often relied on deprecated sample bridges that struggled with modern Gradle build pipelines and AndroidX requirements.
Built specifically with modern engine requirements in mind—including full compatibility with Unity 6.5—this production-ready plugin replaces the legacy implementation with a first-party, high-performance authentication bridge.
Whether you are an indie game developer prototyping your first title or an established studio optimizing player onboarding for your next global launch on Unity 6.5, getting started takes just minutes:
From full immersion at home to glanceable experiences on the go, building on Android XR lets you meet users at any moment across the entire spectrum of spatial applications. At Android Developer Summit, we marked an exciting milestone with the launch of XREAL AURA.
In the intelligence era, users are no longer just tapping through apps, they express high-level goals and expect AI agents like Gemini to complete multi-step workflows, sometimes across multiple apps on their devices.
Today, at the Android Dev Summit, we are announcing the broad availability of many tools and APIs designed to remove everyday friction and give you more flexibility to build great Android apps.
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