Unite Now - Using the Device Simulator to Fireproof Your Mobile App’s UI

Unite Now Session
Leverage the Device Simulator (Preview) to see what your project/app looks like and how it runs across various mobile devices, all within the Unity Editor. We show you how to adjust an existing UI for various device resolutions, use uGUI, and make simple tweaks with code.

When
Wed, July 30, 9:00 AM PT


Where
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Thank you!

 

@AskCarol I'm enjoying the device simulator so far! I have a few questions regarding accessing the device simulator programatically. I think it would be powerful for developers to be able to change the active device through code, and to access fields.

I've been trying to write an extension which will allow me to gather an active instance of the device simulator and access the friendly device name of the currently selected device, however the methods and variables underpinning the device simulator do not appear to be accessible.

As a work around I am searching the device definitions (json files) and comparing the reported SystemInfo.DeviceModel to that in the device definitions. I think I've discovered an error with the device simulator reporting system info incorrectly from a prefab instantiated from a package. I have included the package. Looking forward to your reply.

Thanks,
Elliott

 

Simulator is great, previously it was pretty much impossible to get mobile layouts to look the same on device as in editor, now its a breeze.

It would be cool to get the nintendo switch screen added to this (obviously only accessible if you have a nintendo license ofcourse) as I think this is useful not just to mobile

 

The device simulator is amazing but my main concern is the slow progress to stable tech. September 2019 - December 2020 makes it 1 year 3 months in preview.

Last document revision was December 2019 (so an entire year ago) for the 2.0.0-preview... but the latest version is 2.2.4-preview. So I wonder if it's because:

1) The device simulator has been updated since 2.0.0-preview but the related documentation has not been updated.

2) There have been no significant changes/updates between 2.0.0-preview and 2.2.4-preview - hence no updated docs.

In either case it's not great. The remote app is unusable and trying to develop for mobile without stable tech just makes everything more difficult.

Even Unity basically say "don't use preview packages in production" yet doing exactly that is almost unavoidable in this case.

I just hope the device simulator isn't low priority and that we might see a stable release by 2022 (or it will have been in preview for 3 years by that point).

Also, I believe packages marked "preview" are "something Unity might discontinue in the future" - hence why they recommend not using them in production (amongst other reasons) which makes it less than ideal to use.