Building an executable

Fast native build

• To create a native build (if you're on Windows, it's a Windows build):
• Go to File > Build Settings
  • See that Platform is Windows, Mac, Linux and Architecture is Intel 64-bit
  • Add all scenes to your build settings (see Scenes)
    • If you only have one scene, you can just click on Add Open Scenes
    • If you have more, you can drag-and-drop them to the Scenes In Build listing
  • Click Build
    • Create a /Builds/ folder and select it

Other platforms

• To build for other platforms, you need to install the dedicated modules for them in the Unity Hub

Build settings

• You can make the built game look a bit more polished in Project Settings > Player:
  • Product Name (name of the executable)
  • Default Icon (icon of the executable)
  • Company Name (goes to metadata)

Target resolution

• Shown resolution is set in the Game view. Click Free Aspect and change the aspect ratio to your liking
• The exported resolution is set in Project settings > Player > Resolution and Presentation
  • Untick Default Is Native Resolution to set resolution manually
• If you have Canvas GameObjects (for UI), set the Reference Resolution in the Canvas Scaler component to match the target resolution

Web build

• If you want your game to be played on a web browser (and you should!), you can create a web build
• To build for web, go to build settings and select WebGL as a platform.
• If you haven't yet, you need to install the WebGL module to build for web on the Unity Hub.

• Then, check these three settings in Project preferences > Player:

• On the list to the left on Build settings, choose the WebGL platform and then click on Switch Platform
  
• (You might need to restart Unity to see the build tools as installed.)

Running web builds with a server

• To run a web build, you need a web server
  • ...or you can host the web build in itch.io or similar
  • To try out the web build, you can click Build and run
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Building with Profiler

Manual: Profiling your application
Manual: Profiler
Unity blog: Tackling profiling

Building for Android

• When you change the build target platform, you need to click Switch Platform on Build settings
• Install JDK, SDK, NDK
• Building for Android
• Android environment setup

Running the build on your Android phone

• Enable Developer options to your phone
  • Go to Settings > About Phone > Tap Build number many times
• Enable USB Debugging
  • System > Advanced > Developer Options > USB Debugging
• Connect an Android phone to your computer via USB
• Select your phone from the list in Build Settings > Run Device