Make apps via Unity

You’ll need to:

• Download a version of Unity,
• Have your Stornaway.io project built and open,
• Open the Stornaway User Folder – contact us for access.

Once you’ve used the plugin to take your project from Stornaway.io into Unity, there are other steps and requirements depending on where you intend to publish your application.

Our user guide (available in the shared folder) will walk you through these publishing requirements. We can also talk you through these – get in touch.

Exporting a project as an app using the Unity plugin does not take long. Now that we are familiar with the process, we can create an app from a Stornaway project in 5-10 minutes.

The first couple of times will take longer as you work through the process step-by-step – allow yourself an hour or two to download Unity, the plug-in and read the instructions etc.  

The process of then submitting the app for an App Store is a question of filling out their information, marketing and publishing requirements such as descriptions, screenshots and terms.

There’s no coding required to create an app – and submission to app stores also requires no coding – but it is still a technical process that requires testing and understanding from end-to-end to make sure you are happy that you can do it all. So we would suggest you do a test with a smaller project early on.

For desktop apps that you are giving to your client to distribute privately, there is just an app package that you can zip up and make available via a File Sharing service like Google Drive or Dropbox. Or, just on a hard drive.

We don’t limit or charge for how you use apps after you’ve exported them from Unity – they are then fully independent from Stornaway. 

As phone and desktop operating systems get upgraded, this might have an effect on apps in future, and you might need to re-export your project from Unity in future to keep up with this kind of OS changes – but that’s probably unlikely and several OS versions away. 

At the Premium level, we don’t support the apps that people have exported on an ongoing basis – but will fix any problems in our plugin and the app creation process if discovered.  

For Enterprise customers, we can work with you to specify any additional requirements. 

With the Premium plan, there’s no limit to how many projects you can make – how many apps you export and what different types they are. You can use Unity to export all the different kinds of apps that Unity supports – iOS, Android, Desktop, VR, etc. 

If you’re delivering by app, then the video files are included in the app and there’s no ongoing streaming data. A mobile app will be up to 4GB (1 hour of footage total at full HD) and will be delivered to people’s phones via the Apple or Google app stores – if sold, they take ~30% of the revenues.

If you’re also delivering it via streaming on the web, then we can have a chat about how best to set up their accounts so that you can track their streaming data separately.

You will need to have a copy of Unity Version 2020.3 installed. For commercial use, there’s a license to pay. But there are a couple of things that might allow you to use it for free or even get some additional funding.

You can now use Unity for free, regardless of your company size