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Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide Absolute beginners to designing games for Android will find this book is their passport to quick results. Lots of handholding and practical exercises using Unity 3D makes learning a breeze.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692014
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Saying Hello to Unity and Android FREE CHAPTER 2. Looking Good – Graphical Interface 3. The Backbone of Any Game – Meshes, Materials, and Animations 4. Setting the Stage – Camera Effects and Lighting 5. Getting Around – Pathfinding and AI 6. Specialties of the Mobile Device – Touch and Tilt 7. Throwing Your Weight Around – Physics and a 2D Camera 8. Special Effects – Sound and Particles 9. Optimization A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Unity Remote

Unity Remote is a great application created by the Unity team. It allows developers to connect their Android powered devices to the Unity Editor and provide mobile inputs for testing. This is a definite must for any aspiring Unity and Android developer. If you are using a non-Amazon device, acquiring Unity Remote is quite easy. At the time of writing this book, it could be found on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unity3d.androidremote. It is free and does nothing but connect to the Unity Editor, so the permissions are negligible.

If, however, you are like the ever-growing Amazon market or seek to target Amazon's line of Android devices, adding Unity Remote becomes a little trickier. First, you need to download the APK. It can be found at: http://files.unity3d.com/ricardo/AndroidRemote.apk. Be sure to download the file to a location that you can easily get the whole file path for. In the next section, we build a simple application and put it on our device. Follow along from the Start Console step, replacing the simple application with the downloaded APK.

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Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
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