Android Controls - Unity 3D Course

[Harry_Bouch]

Please could anyone help me with android controls? I’m doing “Section 3: Project Boost” but I decided to be a little adventurous and deviate slightly from the instructions. I wanted to make my game for Android where I could tap/hold my finger on the screen to fly and tilt my phone to make the rocket rotate.

To do this, I imported the new input system package and used the following code…

I have been using the Unity Remote 5 app on my phone to test my game and I was really pleased to find it all worked perfectly. Tapping/holding my finger on the screen causes the rocket to fly and tilting my phone causes the rocket rotate. However, now that I have built the game into an APK file and installed it on my phone, I have found that the controls no longer work at all. Nothing happens when I touch the screen or tilt my phone. Very disheartening

Please can anybody help me fix this?

[solofo]

not sure if that will help you but you know you don’t need the Unity Remote 5 to test your game… there is now a simulator directly in Unity, so you can see how it plays there. And then you can set the input options to simulate mouse clicks as touches…

… more details on the Dapper Dino course for mobile development here at GameDev.TV

EDIT: and Welcome to You

[Harry_Bouch]

I wont be able to test the accelerometer in the simulator. I’m really confused, I can’t seem to find any solutions to this online. It makes no sense to me that it would detect the touch and accelerometer through Unity Remote 5 but not when running natively on the phone.

[Harry_Bouch]

Update: I finally found a solution after many hours of scratching my head!

I went to Project Settings > Player > Other Settings and I changed the Active Input Handling to “Both”. I have no idea why this was necessary since I’m only using the new input system but whatever! It works now!