Preface

Learn the Unity 5 engine to master designing and building awesome real-world games and applications for Android devices. Design beautiful effects, animations, physical behaviors, and other different real-world features and techniques for your Android games and applications. Optimize your project and any other real-world projects for Android devices. Know more in practice about accessing Android functionality, rendering high-end graphics, expanding your project using asset bundles, and of course learn about deploying on the Android platform and much more.

Unity is essentially a development environment for multiple platforms (Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Windows, Playstation, Xbox, Mac, Linux, and Web). Unity is a very popular and effective technology for creating 2D and 3D games and applications. This technology provides many useful and effective tools to solve various issues. The Unity rendering engine provides great real-time rendering of high-quality graphics without too much cost and effort.

The Android platform and game industry is developing like never before. Most programmers using Unity, especially those new to the technology, would like to learn to recreate different functional parts from the most popular real-world games and applications that will cause a great concern in the community.

Whether you are new to Unity 5 or an expert, this book will provide you with the required skills you need to successfully design, implement, build, and enhance the quality of your Android game or application. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly master the key features of the Unity 5 engine to implement real-world Android games and application features in practice.

This book is aimed for competent Unity developers who want to learn to develop, optimize, and publish games for Android devices. Know more about the Unity 5 engine to build awesome real-world Android games.

Starting from the beginning, this book will explain the configuration of the Unity 5 settings for the Android platform. Implement the innovative and user-friendly features using real-world techniques and tips and tricks in practice. Explore how to improve your Android games and enhance its performance. Open a wonderful world of rendering high-quality graphics with physically-based shaders and global illumination. Discover Android features inside the Unity 5 engine and more about transformation from native C# and JavaScript codes into Unity scripts.

This book is aimed at covering the fundamentals relating to typical real-world games and applications and to explore a basic overview of the concepts but the focus is on providing the practical skills required to develop Android games and applications.

Unity 5 for Android Essentials will teach you to use different tools provided by the Unity Technologies team in order to master your game's design and development processes. This book will be a practical guidebook that will help you to leverage the Unity 5 framework in order to build awesome games and apps for Android devices.