Mobile Controls

Unity Engine
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Hello!
So I am making my first game that I’m planning to post on ios/android. I’m wondering how I can make controls in the game for the phone, but also be able to test it on Unity.
I am a beginner so I don’t quite know how this stuff works yet.

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There’s no magic to it; make up a control scheme for the touch screens, and if that’s hard to test on the desktop with a mouse, then add alternate keyboard controls. If you want, you can even leave those in as a hidden feature for anybody who happens to have a Bluetooth keyboard on their iOS/Android device.

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You can use platform dependent compilation to use 2 different control schemes depending on your platform Unity - Manual: Conditional compilation. A small example would be:

public class ControlExample : MonoBehaviour {

    private void Update () {

    #if UNITY_EDITOR // If testing your code in Unity this code would run.
        // Your Unity controls go here

    #else  // Otherwise this code would run.
        // Your mobile controls go here
    #endif
    }
}
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Thanks for both of your answers. I also found a tutorial on Unity for mobile so I will try theses out.
Thanks!