New Device Simulator (preview)

Hi,
I need to develop a test for Iphone 13 (not in the simulator), and a google search took me to this document:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.device-simulator.devices@1.0/manual/index.html
It seems to be an additional package for the Device Simulator, however I cannot find it in the package manager or in the asset store.
Any clues for me?
Working on Unity 2020.3.2.6 and Simulator 3.0.3 (tried on 2021 too).

thanks.

 

Previously, the device simulator was a package, in newer versions, it's built-in. Not sure which devices are included, but in any case, you can add your own device.

Also, the package is/was a preview package, so you might first need to enable to option to show preview packages in the editor. It was never published via the Asset Store.

 

Yep, i tried in the asset store because I had no idea where to find it.
Not speaking about the simulator itself but the "Device Simulator Devices 1.0.0". It appears to be a separate asset that contains additional devices for the device simulator.

 

Right I see, then I don't know, because when I try to add com.unity.device-simulator.devices to Unity 2021.2. it says "not compatible", but also, if I look over the list it seems like all of those devices should be installed by default, but yea iPhone 13 is missing. Sorry, can't help, but I'd be interested as well to have more devices!

 

Hey I've been using the device simulator on the new 2021 LTS release and I noticed that whenever I trigger an input, a macOS system sound plays. It's super annoying, is anyone else getting this?

 

How to use DeviceSimulatorCallbacks.OnDeviceChange? Can you give me an example? I am getting an error
"The type or namespace name 'DeviceSimulator' does not exist in the namespace 'Unity' "

 

Device Simulator always return 1 for tapCount ? It there a way to fix it?
How to test iOS double tap feature with it ?

 

Hey thanks! I haven’t been able to repro it. But it seems like it might actually be related to the shader graph windows. If it ever occurs now, I usually find one of them is open in the background. Closing them seems to fix the problem.
Device simulator is awesome by the way

 

Hi @Phil_Z , I would like to create a plugin where I can simulate OnApplicationPause and OnApplicationFocus. Please share your thoughts about how we can implement it. Thanks

 

Thanks. But if Unity can provide these simulator APIs in future updates it would be a time saver. Please consider this feature. If we write a custom event we have to make sure we listen to it in all the classes where OnApplicationPause is written.

 

I've been scouring the packages etc for a while now trying to find the default devices added with the device simulator.

Basically I have the OnePlus 10 Pro, and was hoping to copy the OnePlus 7T pro as a baseline and fill in the rest.

But I can't find them anywhere. This makes the process of adding a new device incredibly tedious, or inaccurate.

Would it be possible to just expose the built in devices publicly? Or even create an editor where you can pre-populate from existing devices?

All the documentation I've seen says go to preferences etc or settings but there's no simulator settings.

Alternatively would it not be possible to bring back those windows that displayed the device information in the control? panel?

 

@JC-Cimetiere @ScottF Is it possible to change selected Device through code?
I think it might be very useful for taking screenshots for the stores over multiple resolutions, aspect ratios and DPIs.

 

Hi!

We upgraded from 2019 LTS to 2021 LTS. Device simulator is now built-in super cool! However, where did the system spec went? Now our designers have to google the screen resolution every time they change a device... Moreover, the input processing is extremely slow. We have a double tap logic which basically starts a coroutine which lasts for 0.4s + end of frame on the first touch which looks for another touch close to the original one. However, if you double click rapidly on the device simulator the second touch never arrives. You have to wait like 0.2 seconds to reigster the second touch. This was not an issue in 2019.4 and also not an issue when we build the game.

 

@Phil_Z
Hi, when setting the orientation by script the graphics is rotated but the device in the simulator stays in the old orientation, meaning I have to change the orientation manually every time.
Could you fix that?

 

I agree with you, but we are developer not end user. On a real device I can rotate my hand and with auto rotation the screen will follow, what is the equivalent on Unity code? I didn't find any.
The only way simulate a rotation by code is changing the orientation, there aren't any other API.
Clicking on the device rotation is inconvenient when testing several times, for example my game is landscape but I wrote the sign up for portrait because it can be quite hard to fit a sign up form in new narrow mobile devices, every time I test it I need to change the orientation manually back and forth.
It may seem not much of an issue, but it gets annoying fast, there is a reason we use hotkeys instead of buttons to speed up workflow, same issue here.

 

@RomanBanana
Hi!
Thanks for the script will definitely start using it. However, still I would recommend putting it back by default.
Related to the bug atm I'm quite busy with a feature and don't have time to create a report with a working project. But i promise I'll report it in the near future.

 

There is no iPhone 13 (and now newest 14) options, from package manager shows last update Version 3.0.3-preview - November 12, 2021

 

Here is my solution

Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2. using System.Linq;
3. using System.Reflection;
4. using System.Threading.Tasks;
5. using UnityEditor;
6. using UnityEditor.DeviceSimulation;
7. using UnityEngine;
8.  
9. public class AutoRotateDeviceSimulator : DeviceSimulatorPlugin
10. {
11.     public override string title => "Auto Rotate Device Simulator";
12.  
13.     private ScreenOrientation screenOrientation;
14.     private PropertyInfo rotatingProperty;
15.     private object simulatorInterfaceController;
16.  
17.     public override async void OnCreate()
18.     {
19.         await Task.Delay( 200 );
20.  
21.         var assembly = Assembly.GetAssembly( typeof( DeviceSimulator ) );
22.         var simulatorWindowType = assembly.GetTypes().First( t => t.FullName == "UnityEditor.DeviceSimulation.SimulatorWindow" );
23.         var window = EditorWindow.GetWindow( simulatorWindowType );
24.      
25.         var simulatorMainWindow = simulatorWindowType.GetField("m_Main", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance ).GetValue(window);
26.         simulatorInterfaceController = simulatorMainWindow.GetType().GetField("m_UserInterface", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance ).GetValue(simulatorMainWindow);
27.         rotatingProperty = simulatorInterfaceController.GetType().GetProperty( "Rotation", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance );
28.  
29.         screenOrientation = UnityEngine.Device.Screen.orientation;
30.          
31.         EditorApplication.update += ObserveOrientation;
32.     }
33.  
34.     public override void OnDestroy()
35.     {
36.         EditorApplication.update -= ObserveOrientation;
37.     }
38.  
39.     private void ObserveOrientation()
40.     {
41.         if ( screenOrientation != UnityEngine.Device.Screen.orientation )
42.         {
43.             screenOrientation = UnityEngine.Device.Screen.orientation;
44.             switch ( screenOrientation )
45.             {
46.                 case ScreenOrientation.Unknown:
47.                     break;
48.                 case ScreenOrientation.LandscapeLeft:
49.                     SetSimulatorDeviceRotation( -90 );
50.                     break;
51.                 case ScreenOrientation.LandscapeRight:
52.                     SetSimulatorDeviceRotation( 90 );
53.                     break;
54.                 case ScreenOrientation.Portrait:
55.                     SetSimulatorDeviceRotation( 0 );
56.                     break;
57.                 case ScreenOrientation.PortraitUpsideDown:
58.                     SetSimulatorDeviceRotation( 180 );
59.                     break;
60.                 default:
61.                     throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException();
62.             }
63.         }
64.     }
65.  
66.     private void SetSimulatorDeviceRotation(int angle)
67.     {
68.         rotatingProperty.SetValue( simulatorInterfaceController, angle );
69.     }
70. }

 

Safe Area is broken if you rotate device.
Unity 2021.3.15f1 LTS

https://i.gyazo.com/018179940e9da8d836e92a15e14225df.mp4

 

Why is it broken? That looks correct to me.

 

Look at lower safe screen yellow line if rotated
https://gyazo.com/7ec6d795e43c7a0a605782da51523c2f

 

Yeah, that's for the software home button. It's correct.

 

Can we please have the mute button in Simulator window? Missing it so much, as turning volume off from Sound Mixer is pretty annoying.
Thanks

 

Unity folks; it's quite frustrating that the iPhone 14 has been out for almost 200 days now and these devices weren't updated; especially since they have a different safe area that we need to account for. There's an argument for the Android ecosystem given the vast amount of new phones released every year, but the same argument is hard to apply to Apple's devices.

For those looking to fill the gap, I've put together the proper device definition and overlay files that enable this to work for both devices -- iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max: https://gist.github.com/mrcarriere/049596740fb52907edf68712d2818df0

(Also worth noting, there is a bug where the simulator will indefinitely spew errors if you have orientations defined, but don't include one for the orientation your app is setup. For instance: only defining a portrait orientation but having an app that only allows landscape orientations.)

 

Thank you!

 

Hey, quick question, so I know the device simulator allows you to preview your game, but how do you make the corrections so that you can export to multiple screen sizes.

 

I mean, it takes them roughly six months just to add the new devices to their enums, so 200 days to do actual work on the simulator doesn't seem that bad in comparison.

 

Is there anyway to simulate multiple finger touches in the device simulator? It seemed there wasn't so I was trying use the mouse scroll for zooming in and shift + mouse to pan as substitutes for two-finger touch (for testing purposes), but is this even possible? Thanks.

 

That would be a GREAT feature

 

You can sorta do that with Unity Remote, but it's not very reliable. Maybe check it out though.

 

Hey guys, it has been asked 2 years ago by multiple users, how hard can it be to allow keyboard input?!

@PrisedRabbit
Thanks a lot,I'm gonna try it.