After my previous blog post on how to sandbox an iOS app inside of a Unity project, I got some questions on how to do the same but put Unity inside of an existing iOS app.
After playing around with it, I found a solution which works well for me to add Unity app in an existing iOS app.
So you want to trigger functionality in your Unity3D scene straight from your native Objective-C code? For example you have different scenes, and you want a regular iOS component (e.g. UIButton) to trigger a new scene. It takes some work, but it is doable.
Read it … bitch 🙂
Unity exposes a way to call code in your Unity3D project (normally this will be javascript or C#). There are 3 components you need to get in place.
The way it works is that you can bridge your code from Objective-C to C# or Javascript in Unity3D with the ‘UnitySendMessage’ method.
Continue reading Call methods on Unity3D straight from your Objective-C code
For a project I need to implement an augmented reality feature inside a native iOS application. We chose to go with Unity3D and Vuforia to do the augmented reality bit, as it’s free and lots of people are saying it’s the best solution. The only problem when working with Unity3D is that the exported iOS project is not easy to implement in an existing project as we only need Unity3D for 2 views inside a project with some dozen other native UIViews. Continue reading Add Unity3D in a native iOS application