What is the RudderStack Unity SDK?

The RudderStack Unity SDK, simply put, is a wrapper on top of our Android SDK or iOS SDK used for tracking event data in games. After integrating this SDK to your game, you will be able to track and send the game event data to any analytics destination of your choices such as Google Analytics, Amplitude, and more.

Setup requirements

To properly configure the Unity SDK, you will need the following:

• You will need a RudderStack account. Your source writeKey should appear on the dashboard once you have signed up.

• Your Data Plane URL. Simply put, the Data Plane URL is used to connect to the RudderStack backend for processing and routing your events.

• You will also need the Unity development kit.

Adding Unity SDK to your project

• Download rudder-sdk-unity.unitypackage from our Github Repository.

• Import the downloaded package to your project. From the Assets menu, go to Import Package - Custom Package... as shown in the following screenshot:

• Select rudder-sdk-unity.unitypackage from the location where you have downloaded it and click on Open:

• Click on Import in the import popup as shown:

Initializing RudderStack client

Add the import to all the files where you wish to use RudderClient .

using RudderStack;

After that, add the following code in the Awake method of your main GameObject Script:

// Critical for iOS Applications where multiple components are using SQLite
// This has no effect for Android, but can be added as a safety check
RudderClient.SerializeSqlite();
​
// Build your config
RudderConfigBuilder configBuilder = new RudderConfigBuilder()
    .WithDataPlaneUrl(DATA_PLANE_URL);
​
// get instance for RudderClient
RudderClient rudderClient = RudderClient.GetInstance(
    WRITE_KEY,
    configBuilder.Build()
);

Track

You can record the users' activity in your game through the track method. Every action performed by the user is called an event.

An example of the track event is as shown:

// create event properties
Dictionary<string, object> eventProperties = new Dictionary<string, object>();
eventProperties.Add("test_key_1", "test_value_1");
eventProperties.Add("test_key_2", "test_value_2");
​
// create user properties
Dictionary<string, object> userProperties = new Dictionary<string, object>();
userProperties.Add("test_u_key_1", "test_u_value_1");
userProperties.Add("test_u_key_2", "test_u_value_2");
​
// create message to track
RudderMessageBuilder builder = new RudderMessageBuilder();
builder.WithEventName("test_event_name");
builder.WithUserId("test_user_id");
builder.WithEventProperties(eventProperties);
builder.WithUserProperties(userProperties);
​
rudderClient.Track(builder.Build());

// create message to track
RudderMessageBuilder builder = new RudderMessageBuilder();
builder.WithEventName("test_event_name");
builder.WithUserId("test_user_id");
builder.WithEventProperty("foo", "bar");
builder.WithUserProperty("foo1", "bar1");
​
rudderClient.Track(builder.Build());

Identify

The SDK captures the deviceId and uses that as anonymousId for identifying the user. It helps to track the users across the application installation. To attach more information to the user, you can use the identify method. Once you set the identify information to the user, those will be passed to the successive track calls. To reset the user identification, you can use the reset method.

An example identify event is as shown:

RudderMessage identifyMessage = new RudderMessageBuilder().Build();
RudderTraits traits = new RudderTraits().PutEmail("some@example.com");
rudderClient.Identify("some_user_id", traits, identifyMessage);

Reset

The reset method clears all the persisted traits of the previously identified user.

rudderClient.Reset();

Upgrading the SDK

Remove all the files related to RudderStack SDK from the Plugins folder. Also remove the RudderUnityPlugin folder completely before importing the newer version of the SDK.

The following is the list of files in Plugins folder for RudderStack SDK:

• Plugins/Android/rudder-sdk-unity-plugin-android-release.aar

• Plugins/iOS/RudderSDKUnity

Contact us

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