Unity Package Manager (UPM) support

[ErnSur]

[REQUIRED] Step 1: Describe your environment

• Unity version: 2018.3+
• Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin version: All
• Platform: All (iOS, Android, Unity Editor)
• Platform OS version: All (eg iOS 10, Android 9)
• Any specific devices issue occurs on: All
• Mediation ad networks used, and their versions: N/A

[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe the problem

This plugin is missing unity's package manager support. Many Unity packages from Google follow the UPM package standard. UPM standard requires things like:

• Specific folder structure
• Immutable package design
• Package manifest more can be found in Unity Manual: Creating custom packages

This would be a great QoL improvement for developers.

Steps to reproduce:

Relevant Code:

[robinryf]

This would really help with keeping everything up-to-date having multiple projects

[stowy]

We agree and are working on making this happen. It will be released following a refactor of the native ads plugin and should go out in the next month or so.

[ErnSur]

Any news on that?

[Zamaroht]

Any ETA on this?

[scriptsengineer]

Update? do it , this high need feature.

[stowy]

It will be done prior to the end of the year.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:45 PM Rafael Correa notifications@github.com wrote:

Update? do it , this high need feature.

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[kerembaydogan]

@stowy it is almost the end of the year.

just saying :)

[lwthorns]

@stowy Would you please update eta for this? My team needs to make decisions for our project based on this issue.

[Thaina]

It will be done prior to the end of the year. … On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:45 PM Rafael Correa @.***> wrote: Update? do it , this high need feature. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1416 (comment)>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABNGOFFVA4J3H6G64A66ODTSQJO4HANCNFSM4P5EE4SQ .

End of which year?

Also there is https://github.com/googleads/googleads-mobile-unity/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt about UPM in 6.0.0 but I don't see there are 6.0.0 yet, am I missing something?

[thsbrown]

Would also love to check in on the status of this 👍 .

[Zamaroht]

I'm also interested in this issue, would be really helpful for integrations

[robinryf]

This issue is probably too much to wish for since Google is not continuing to provide Unity Package Manager support for other Google packages: https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/issues/1028

It would still be very great to add the AdMob integration to https://developers.google.com/unity/archive so it can be included in our own Unity registries and resolve dependencies correctly when the External Dependency Manager is already included in the project.

[sirgatsen]

Has this trail gone cold? Anyone to update us with an alternative way apart from .unitypackage?

[NVentimiglia]

Hi Everyone, thanks for the feedback. I will look into this functionality.

[NVentimiglia]

Hi Everyone, UMP is now live in 7.4.0.

[sirgatsen]

Many many thanks my friend, I can't wait to test it out!

Oh man, I almost got excited. We need Unity Package Manager (UPM) and not User Messaging Platform (UMP)

[Thaina]

Wait... Is it UPM or UMP ?

[robinryf]

I think there has been a misunderstanding here @NVentimiglia

This issue asks for Unity Package Manager (UPM) support. It seems version 7.4.0 added support for User Messaging Platform (UMP).

While I do like the addition of UMP, this is not what this issue is about. Could you please re-open the issue?

[Thaina]

@NVentimiglia You have closed the wrong issue

[ErnSur]

I updated the issue so this it is more clear and more relevant, as it was created in 2020. As others have said, it was closed for the wrong reason. @NVentimiglia

[Thaina]

@NVentimiglia One month had passed for closing the wrong issue

[ChanUkLee]

@NVentimiglia The issue needs to be reopened

[Thaina]

I just thought I would ping this again at the end of this month

[NVentimiglia]

@Thaina

Thank you. We are still looking into this feature.

[Xeoneid]

any news on this? It would be an appreciated QoL update

[NVentimiglia]

We are looking into UPM support. I will update this thread when I can give a specific date.

[LitQoo]

@NVentimiglia I am using Admob sdk personally made for unity package manager. com.google.external-dependency-manager can be shared with firebase, so I created a separate repository. The same goes for mediation like AppLovin. Please note. It wasn't too difficult to make. With this, I can update the admob of more than 5 projects at once, which is very convenient.

https://github.com/LitQoo/com.google.ads.mobile https://github.com/LitQoo/com.google.external-dependency-manager https://github.com/LitQoo/com.google.ads.mobile.adapter.applovin

[NVentimiglia]

Thats great @LitQoo

Agree UPM is a value add and official support still scheduled to be added.

[FemLolStudio]

Any update about it?

[NVentimiglia]

@FemLolStudio

Still a work in progress. We are aiming for early Q1.

[NVentimiglia]

Closing this issue here. Last time I spoke I said early Q1, but we are still aiming for a Q1 release.

[Thaina]

Should we have this closed after it actually released?

[ErnSur]

I also don't like the act of closing an issue before the changes are actually released. We heard about this feature coming in 2020

[NVentimiglia]

https://developers.google.com/admob/unity/quick-start#import_the_mobile_ads_for_unity_plugin