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Sign out of Google Play Services through code

PlayServices no longer require a sign-out button(link), hence the deprecation. It seems their direction for v2 is to alternate between accounts, using a default account always signed in. Also the ...
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Is there a "best practice" for making changes to packages

Even if you manage to automate the diff transfer (I have a mind to try out Roslyn SyntaxTree and code injection at some point for this), the reality is that the rest of the code can still change, as ...
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Is it worthwhile to use events when there’s only one subscriber?

I've found this is more or less the entire point of design principles. When you learn design principles in schools or otherwise serious courses, you get taught to always use them no matter what. This ...
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Is it worthwhile to use events when there’s only one subscriber?

This question is on the border of "primarily opinion-based". There are no right or wrong solutions to software architecture problems. Only solutions that work for you or solutions that don't ...
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Animation can't disable gameobject

Final frame sampling in Unity is not guaranteed and this has been an issue for a very long time, move your de-activation earlier or don't use it in the animation editor at all. This is due to the ...
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Destroying the parent when all children are destroyed

After searching for a better way, I came across OnTransformChildrenChanged: The following changes to direct children of a GameObject invoke ...
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How to make TextMeshProUGUI truncate the left part (beginning) of a line?

I needed to truncate the beginning of a text and display ellipsis, starting from the end and discarding the first words of the text. For instance, ...
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How can I get Unity to do letterbox/pillarbox to maintain aspect ratio?

I tried @Almo solution but actually it didn't work in all the cases: It was ok with aspect ratio 2:1 It was ok with aspect ratio 4:1 It was not ok with aspect ratio 1:2. As you can see below, the ...
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How do big open worlds handle Object Pooling?

What you need to consider is which objects in your game only differ by data and which differ by components. For example, when you have a lot of projectiles in your game which only differ by speed, ...
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How do big open worlds handle Object Pooling?

One important consideration to add is that most open world games are not built in a managed language like the C# used in Unity. In a managed language with an automatic garbage collector, creating and ...
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What’s the correct / idiomatic way to pause a game in Unity?

I usually use the system you described first - set Time.timeScale to 0 and provide an easily accessible bool to check if the game is paused. Note that this can get ...
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How do big open worlds handle Object Pooling?

many different weapons with many different bullets. Do you have to create one pool for each? Maybe not for all bullets. A small handgun and a weapon that shoots faster will probably have almost the ...
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Can't get a Prefab to scale down accordingly inside a Container

Using a simple card prefab, adding only the Aspect Ration Fitter to it and having a container with the horizontal layout group (added an image for better seeing the container) and a simple button ...
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