Development Environment Setup Before Internal Beta Testing

1. Unity Hub Installation

• Download: Unity Hub – Official Download

• Install Unity Hub on your development machine.

• Login to Unity Account:

  • When: Right after installing Unity Hub and launching it for the first time.

  • Why:

    • Required to activate your Unity license (even for the free Personal plan).

    • Enables access to Unity services.

  • How:

    1. Launch Unity Hub.

    2. Click Sign In.

    3. Enter your Unity ID credentials or create a new account if you don’t have one.

    4. If prompted, select the Personal license (for internal beta testing) and confirm eligibility.

• Verification: Launch Unity Hub and ensure you can access the Installs and Projects tabs.

2. Unity with Visual Studio and Android Build Support Installation (Unity 2020.3.48f1)

• Unity Version: Install Unity 2020.3.48f1 for the internal beta testing from the Official Download Page via Unity Hub

  1. Click Installs → Open Unity Hub.

  2. In Add Modules, check:

     • Android Build Support

       • Android SDK & NDK Tools

       • OpenJDK

     • IDE support (choose one):

       • On Windows: Microsoft Visual Studio Community (with “Game development with Unity” workload)

       • On macOS: Visual Studio for Mac

  3. Click Done and wait for Unity Hub to finish the installation

Configure Your Script Editor

• In Unity Editor

  • Windows: Edit → Preferences → External Tools → External Script Editor → Visual Studio

  • macOS: Unity → Preferences(Settings) → External Tools → External Script Editor → Visual Studio for Mac

Optional: Visual Studio Code Integration

If you prefer VS Code:

1. Download & install VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/

2. In VS Code, install extensions:

   • C# (Microsoft)

   • Unity(Microsoft)

3. In Unity Editor → Preferences → External Tools:

   • Set External Script Editor to your VS Code executable (Code.exe on Windows, Visual Studio Code.app on macOS).

   • Under “Generate .csproj and .sln files for:”, enable all package types (Embedded, Local, Registry, Built-in).

4. Restart Unity so VS Code becomes the active script editor.

3. Android SDK Installation for Emulator

• Download and install Android Studio from here

• Open the Android Studio, it will ask you to install Android SDK, keep following the instruction

• Go to Device Manager

• Create a new virtual device

• Then start the virtual device by pressing on Play button on the virtual device item in the list, make sure to select Android API 36.0 or higher

• You'll see the emulator running