Archive for April, 2015
Unity and Android: Create an Unity app with a custom layout
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Featured, Programming
Although Android and Unity3D are both common topics here at 41post.com, this tutorial is the first one featured in this website to combine those two topics into a single post.
So, this first Unity/Android post is going to show how to create an Unity Android application that uses a custom layout which makes the Unity View to take up only part of the screen. Additionally, this post shows how to have some Android buttons underneath that View and how to make them interact with Unity. And as a simple example, those buttons will determine which direction the camera should rotate around a blue box. As usual, there’s a sample project is available at the end of the post. Here’s a GIF illustrating how the application looks and behaves:
The View used by Unity only takes part of the screen. The three buttons are native Android UI buttons.
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