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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The three UI systems

Unity has three systems that can be used to build UI. Which you choose will depend on where your UI will be displayed, what you are trying to accomplish, whether you’re working on a pre-existing project, and how comfortable you are with coding.

The UI you build can either be in-game or in-Editor. In-game UI is the UI that can be accessed by your players. In-Editor UI is UI that displays within the Unity Editor and assists with development.

If you want to build UI for your game or application, you can choose between the Unity UI (uGUI) system or the UI Toolkit. If you want to build UI that appears in your Unity Editor, you can use either the UI Toolkit or IMGUI. The following Venn diagram summarizes the uses of the different UI systems: