New Device Simulator (preview)

Hello guys, thanks for this amazing package, maybe, in next releases can a toggle with "Use Aspect Ratio" instead "Fixed-Resolution" be added as new feature improvement?

When trying to simulate devices with resolution greater than my Monitor (1080p) the text became unreadable. Changing from "Fixed-Resolution" to "Aspect-Ratio" can fix this.

With Simulator (Fixed-Resolution)


With Game View (Aspect-Ratio)

 

Hello. It would be nice to somehow exclude rounded corners from some devices safe area. Say, some custom settings per application, because some interface would benefit from not excluding them but some needs too exclude them. Now android devices like huawei and samsung include rounded corners in safe area while Iphone devices have very large offset of this safe area.

I know, that device itself is responsible for this safe area values, but we have to invent custom tools to mitigate this problem.

 

Hi, has there been any progress on making keyboard input works on the simulator?

 

For several days now I have been searching for this addition.
Thank you.

 

When are devices that have been out for a good 8 months now going to be supported? Like the Samsung S20/+/Ultra

 

Is there a way to detect that the simulator is active?

Not being able to use the full gamut of Android and iOS features while running in Editor is a given. What's problematic is that there is no way reliably detect that the player is in fact running in the Editor with the simulator active when device info mocking is turned on.

 

Hello!

This Device Simulator seems amazing. I'm looking forward to use it, but I just keep getting errors when trying to make it work along with the New Input System.

I just created the project and installed Device Simulator, working perfectly. Next, I installed the New Input System and it's when Device Simulator stops working. Nothing shown on Simulator tab and these errors appearing on the console:



It doesn't matter what Input System I set in Player Settings either, it doesn't work


Any idea how to fix it? Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Thanks!!

 

Hey guys @JC-Cimetiere, randomly started getting issues where the device simulator has become unusable for some reason :/ Please find attached the errors its throwing, it just started happening randomly when I updated to Unity 2019.4.12 LTS 2019.4.13 LTS.

Please find below the errors I am currently getting. Thanks in advance.

Please note I have tried reinstalling the package to no avail.

 

The device simulator is a great time saver!

I would like to see some kind of indicator in the device list to show which devices have cutouts or other unusual screen features. That would make it quicker to find and test such devices.

I also noticed the Huawei P20 device has a cutout but the safe area does not adjust for it. Is that what the device actually returns?

 

bump for above issues please

 

I'm getting some strange click events happening when using the device simulator.
Button clicks are registering for UI elements even if the pointer is not contained within their RectTransform.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I'm using new Input system.

 

I'm having the same issue. Device simulator is really great but now I can't use it :/

 

Device Simulator gives out an error on Unity 2021.1:

Library/PackageCache/com.unity.device-simulator@2.2.3-preview/Editor/SimulatorApplicationSettings.cs(33,87): error CS1061: 'ApplicationSimulation' does not contain a definition for 'OnLowMemory' and no accessible extension method 'OnLowMemory' accepting a first argument of type 'ApplicationSimulation' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

 

Sorry but isn't it funny that you do a lot to decouple features from the editor, put them in packages, then put them back in the editor and leave the packages like this?
Too bad, I needed this feature a lot but I have no intention of moving to 2021 until it enters LTS.
However I recommend updating the package documentation, there is no hint that it is discontinued and I came across this conversation by accident. I wanted to update a project to 2019 just to use it, now what's the point?

 

That's great. THANKS! I just tested it and saw it working

In the quick test I noticed two things:

• I have to disable Simulate Touch Input from Mouse or Pen option from "Input Debug" window. Otherwise it just takes the first touch.

• Performance seems to drop a lot. Reading previous posts I suppose it's normal at the moment.

 

Hi! Please add iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 pro and pro max

 

By maintained I think you mean just minor bug fix and not new features right?
Otherwise I don't see the reason why not continue with it as package even in 2021.

 

Is it there already? I could not find it...

 

Is there a way to know if code is running in 'device simulator mode' versus 'game mode' within the editor?

I need this because I need to switch which mouse/pointer/button detection code depending on which window I'm in.

I've not as yet been able to create universal code that works for both when I'm trying to mask out UI elements.

This works for game mode:

Code (CSharp):

1. if ((Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)) && (!EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject()))

This works for simulator mode (and mobile):

Code (CSharp):

1. if ((Input.touchCount == 1) && (Input.GetTouch(0).phase == TouchPhase.Began) && (!EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject(Input.GetTouch(0).fingerId)))

If I could detect if the editor is in the game or simulator window I can just switch the set of checking code to use when I'm in the editor with UNITY_EDITOR.. Obvious the !UNITY_EDITOR would just have the mobile checking.

 

Device simulator performance is soo slow, is there any hope for improvement?

My team really loves the simulator for previewing UI on different screen sizes, but the input lag is so bad, that it's almost impossible to drag controls or even click buttons sometimes because the clicks are missed in frame drops. The regular scene view and game view have fps in the hundreds and are smooth.

See this difference between the simulator and regular game view in the profiler:



The profiler looks like 30 fps but that's not even what's happening in reality. When dragging an object in the simulator it jumps around with almost a second lag in between, but in the regular game view everything is normal.

 

Hey, I have some suggestions;
Can you please add a keybinding system to emulate generic multi-touch events like pinch to zoom in/out, two-finger camera rolling?
It would make testing small additions easier and quicker when you don't really need unity remote for touch input.
Also you can add emulation for other inputs like gyroscope/accelerometer etc.

 

Hi,

I would like to be able to change the tested device by script. I want to go through every devices on the list automatically every 5 seconds instead of having to click the dropdown every time. It seems like a trivial problem but it a long time to click on every device one at a time.

Is that already somewhere hidden in the API?

 

Hi, I cant find the device simulator in the package manager. Is the device simulator not supported in 2020.2.1f1?

 

I completely forgot about that. Thank you!!

 

I'm confused about this section in the blog post:

What does it mean? If we use

Screen.width

, will it return the wrong value on Device Simulator? Will we have to use

UnityEngine.Device.Screen.width

?

 

Hi, thanks for device simulator.
But, how can I saw cutouts? I see only button for "Safe Area"
And what about emulating iOS Home button ?

 

@RomanBanana Thank you for the prompt reply. Is there a performance difference between UnityEngine.Device functions and UnityEngine functions in a built game?

 

Is the Project Settings -> Device Simulator (https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.device-simulator@2.2/manual/simulation-scope.html) still there in 2021? or is it not needed to setup the Simulation Scope for custom asmdef?

 

Hi, wanna know is it support to simulate folding devices now?