These days Unity Hub is the best way to install and manage different Unity.

When installing Visual Studio be sure to select the “Game development with Unity” workload: You can find the Visual Studio Community Edition installer on this website. If you’ve already installed a Unity version though you can always go back and add the VS dev tools module after the fact. It’s easiest to have Visual Studio installed before before installing your Unity version so that when Unity installs it installs the VS dev tools.

I recently set up Unity on a new laptop and things went fairly smoothly so I thought I’d document the process to try to help others out. The first time I tried writing a mobile game using Unity I found it took me way too long to get things set up where I could actually debug code running on the Android device.

The risks outweigh the benefits in that case.Using Visual Studio to debug a Unity game on Android device It's fine to leave on for a few days while you're working on something, but there's no need to have it enabled when you're not regularly using it. Unless you regularly use ADB and connect your Android device to your PC, you shouldn't leave USB Debugging enabled all the time. That's scary, and a good reason you should have Android Device Manager set up so you can factory reset your Android device remotely. Someone who knew what they were doing could connect your device to their computer and issue commands to it via ADB, without knowing your PIN or other lock screen security. However, an unsuspecting user could accept the prompt without realizing what it's for.Īdditionally, leaving USB Debugging enabled makes your device open to attack if you were to lose it. This is why Android displays a confirmation prompt, so you don't connect to a PC you don't trust. If someone had access to the port, they could potentially steal information off your device or push malicious apps to it. In theory, with USB Debugging enabled, plugging your phone into a public charging port could open it up to risk.

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