Views

Before we go ahead with creating our UI, we need to make a few assumptions here. Remember that planning is very important. From now on, we will be using the term view a lot. In simple words, a view is a portion of the application UI that is visible to the user at a particular time:

• Our simple game will contain three simple views: the Menu view, the InGame view, and the GameOver view
• Each view will contain all UI elements, such as buttons, labels, and so on
• Only one view can be displayed to the user at a time

Constructing the view UI – how to keep things clean

Unity draws UI elements in a way similar to its rendering of 3D meshes. What I mean by this is that all rendering happens in the 3D space. To draw UI elements, Unity requires a game object with the Canvas component on it. All this new information might be a bit confusing to you, so it's best if we create a view as an example. We will start with the Menu view.

In our Menu view, we will have only a Play button. The Menu view...