You're reading from Mastering UI Development with Unity Develop engaging and immersive user interfaces with Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235394

Length 638 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Unity

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Dr. Ashley Godbold

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Designing User Interfaces

2. Chapter 1: Designing User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing Mobile User Interfaces

4. Chapter 3: Designing VR, MR, and AR UI

5. Chapter 4: Universal Design and Accessibility for UI

6. Chapter 5: User Interface and Input Systems in Unity

7. Part 2: Unity UI Basics

8. Chapter 6: Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts

9. Chapter 7: Exploring Automatic Layouts

10. Chapter 8: The Event System and Programming for UI

11. Part 3: The Interactable Unity UI Components

12. Chapter 9: The UI Button Component

13. Chapter 10: UI Text and TextMeshPro

14. Chapter 11: UI Images and Effects

15. Chapter 12: Using Masks, Scrollbars, and Scroll Views

16. Chapter 13: Other Interactable UI Components

17. Part 4: Unity UI Advanced Topics

18. Chapter 14: Animating UI Elements

19. Chapter 15: Particles in the UI

20. Chapter 16: Utilizing World Space UI

21. Chapter 17: Optimizing Unity UI

22. Part 5: Other UI and Input Systems

23. Chapter 18: Getting Started with UI Toolkit

24. Chapter 19: Working with IMGUI

25. Chapter 20: The New Input System

26. Index

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Getting Started with UI Toolkit

Up to this point, the focus of this book has been on Unity UI (uGUI). However, Unity has been developing another system in which you can develop UI for your game: the UI Toolkit. It is based on the principles of web design and is meant to allow you to create UI in a more flexible and extensible way than the uGUI. It accomplishes this by divorcing the design and development of UI from scenes and GameObjects and instead creates UI via code and style sheets—just like in web design.

The UI Toolkit is an entirely different system, so beginning development with it may feel jarring at first if you are used to developing UI with uGUI. However, if you have experience with .html and .css or developing Android or iOS interfaces using XML, this should all feel very familiar.

Since the UI Toolkit is an entirely different system using entirely different principles than the rest of the chapters in this book, to fully explain all that you could do with...