Unity 2020.1 Device Simulator — A Beginner’s Guide

Test your mobile game projects on your PC, and get the Camera, UI, and game feel just right.

Getting the perfect fit between UI and dozens of mobile phone resolutions takes time. Thankfully Unity is here to make it faster! Photo by SCREEN POST on Unsplash

How many smartphones have you owned in your lifetime? Have you ever had to worry about whether an app or game would render well on your new phone? Or if your device resolution is supported by your favorite game?

Of course you haven’t — it’s the developer’s job to figure that out for you!

Unity game engine has been around since 2005, but only in 2019 did they release the Device Simulator feature as a preview package. As the name implies, Device Simulator allows you to preview how your game will look on multiple devices without all the hassle of testing on said devices. Before then, your options included:

• Owning a whole bunch of phones with different screen resolutions, AND
• Building your app binary for each and every device and testing your app on each device

No one wants to own this many phones to properly develop an app! Photo by Obi Onyeador on Unsplash

Not many people had the time and money to do this, and so many devices went untested, and developers opted for the best experience on the most popular…