Hello everyone, first time poster.
I’m toying with Unity for about two weeks now and I’m prototyping a product builder for a client. I’m interested in creating an Ipad version of the prototype but still am not comfortable enough with the Unity GUI system to create every piece of the UI using it.
My web prototype currently embeds the Unity player inside a rich HTML5 interface. I’m wondering if it’s possible to do the same on the Ipad, like putting the unity view inside a UIWebView component or maybe some other RAD mobile frameworks like PhoneGap or Corona.
Has anyone played with this kind of thing?
Cheers!
You can overlay native UI components on top of the unity GL view on iOS and you can have it so the native UI components will interact with unity. Look into Prime31’s NativeToolkit to see how this is done.
I don’t think you could overlay a transparent UIWebView. But if there was some other web library that could be made to be transparent in the background, you could potentially overlay that. It would be alot of work, and if you got it working I’d personally really like to see how you did it.
Hey eem, thanks for the reply.
Actually, I don’t need to put any HTML control inside the unity view. What I’m trying to achieve is having an Unity view inside an HTML5 App. Something like this.
Is something along these lines possible?
Unity within HTML is just an embed block. As such yes and no. It can be there but it will not be like anything else, you can’t control it through js nor will it work without the plugin which means you can make it part of a html application but not for iOS. For iOS its either an own application or it does not exist at all, there are no plugins for mobile OSs be it Android nor iOS, as neither OS supports it
