Enable remote distribution
To enable remote distribution of your application's content, you must enable the remote catalog and set up the groups containing the assets you want to host remotely.
Enable the remote catalog
Enable the following settings in the Addressable Asset Settings Inspector (menu: Window > Asset Management > Addressables > Settings):
- Build Remote Catalog: Enabled
- Build & Load Paths: Set to remote
Unity builds the catalog and its accompanying hash file to the folder specified in the Build Path setting. You must upload these files so that they can be accessed at the URL specified by the Load Path setting. Unless you have a specific reason not to, use the Remote location so that Unity builds and loads the catalog from the same paths as the remote AssetBundles.
Set up a remote group
To set up a group so that the assets in it can be hosted remotely, set the Build & Load Paths to the Remote location.
If you plan to publish content updates between publishing full rebuilds of your application, set the Content Update Restriction value according to how often you expect to update content in a group:
- Enable Prevent Updates for groups that produce larger AssetBundles, especially if you're not going to change most of the assets in the group. If you do change assets in a group with this setting, the Addressables tools move the changed assets to a new group for the update. Only the new AssetBundles are downloaded by installed applications.
- Disable Prevent Updates for groups containing assets that you expect to change frequently. If you change assets in a group with this setting, the AssetBundles containing those assets are rebuilt as a whole and are downloaded again by installed applications. To reduce the amount of data that needs to be downloaded after an update, try to keep the AssetBundles produced by groups with this setting as small as possible.
Refer to Content update builds for more information about updating remote content.
The Advanced Options section contains some options that affect remote hosting and downloads but aren't necessary to enable remote hosting. Refer to Advanced Options for more information.