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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

By : John P. Doran
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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

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By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

Unity 2020 brings a lot of new features that can be harnessed for building powerful games for popular mobile platforms. This updated second edition delves into Unity development, covering the new features of Unity, modern development practices, and augmented reality (AR) for creating an immersive mobile experience. The book takes a step-by-step approach to building an endless runner game using Unity to help you learn the concepts of mobile game development. This new edition also covers AR features and explains how to implement them using ARCore and ARKit with Unity. The book explores the new mobile notification package and helps you add notifications for your games. You’ll learn how to add touch gestures and design UI elements that can be used in both landscape and portrait modes at different resolutions. The book then covers the best ways to monetize your games using Unity Ads and in-app purchases before you learn how to integrate your game with various social networks. Next, using Unity’s analytics tools, you’ll enhance your game by gaining insights into how players like and use your game. Finally, you’ll take your games into the real world by implementing AR capabilities and publishing them on both Android and iOS app stores. By the end of this book, you will have learned Unity tools and techniques and be able to use them to build robust cross-platform mobile games.
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Working with buttons

Unlike our title, for things that we want our players to touch, it's a good idea to make the buttons the same size in each device, as our fingers are the same size, no matter what device we are using. To show a possible solution for this, we will create a new Canvas using a different scaling technique:

  1. Stop the game if it is currently running. We will first rename our current Canvas object to Canvas - Scale w/Screen. This way, we can easily tell whether we are using the correct Canvas for this or not.
  2. Now that we have that one ready, we can create our new one. Go to the top menu bar and then select GameObject | UI | Canvas. Rename this new Canvas Canvas - Scale Physical. Then, under the Canvas Scaler component, change UI Scale Mode to Constant Physical Size:

Using this method, Unity will attempt to scale the size of this Canvas so that each element has the same physical size, regardless of the resolution. Since we're going for buttons that we intend to...

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