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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

You're reading from   Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development Discover practical techniques and examples to create and deliver engaging games for Android and iOS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987336
Length 464 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Building Your Game 2. Project Setup for Android and iOS Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Mobile Input/Touch Controls 4. Resolution-Independent UI 5. Advertising Using Unity Ads 6. Implementing In-App Purchases 7. Getting Social 8. Keeping Players Involved with Notifications 9. Using Unity Analytics 10. Making Your Title Juicy 11. Game Build and Submission 12. Augmented Reality 13. Other Books You May Enjoy
Resolution-Independent UI

When working on mobile devices, one of the things that you'll need to spend a fair bit of time on is the User Interface (UI). Unlike when developing projects for PC, where you only need to care about a single resolution or aspect ratio, there are many different devices out there with different resolutions and aspect ratios when building for mobile. For instance, we have phones, which fit in our pocket, but also tablets, which are huge. Not only that, but mobile games can also be played horizontally or vertically.

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is the way that players interact with your games. You've actually been using a GUI in all of the previous chapters (the Unity Editor) and also when interacting with your operating system. Without a GUI of some sort, the only way you'd be able to interact with a computer is a command prompt, such...

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