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I've been a "hardcore" developer for sometime now, as I've always worked with pure code reactive rendering, and contributed to Cocos2d library some time ago , (It is the one I used for my games) . But I've come to realize that most of the work I'm doing by setting up my game environment , user interface and everything else is becoming a bit repetitive, and complicated, as position must be tested each build , debugging sometimes involves exploring the deep down framework and I've decided to try out a full game development environment.

Some friends have recommended me Unity for mobile development (If you could give me any better advice I'd be grateful) but my main concern is my custom libraries I built on Objective C for multiplayer real time connectivity, it's probably thousands of lines and I wouldn't like to write them all over again.

Is there any way I could invoke my objective-c library in Unity ?

I know it's probably a vague question but can't seem to find where to start! Any guidance will be highly appreciated!

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Seems you could convert it to a Unity plugin docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/Plugins.html. Never used unity though so I'll let more people exspand on if that is practical or even possible. –  ClassicThunder Apr 15 '14 at 20:36
    
I appreciate the suggestion and honesty. –  Joel Hernandez Apr 15 '14 at 20:39

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Plugins for Unity can be written using Objective C; refer to this page: http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/PluginsForIOS.html

However I wouldn't assume that a code library of thousands of lines that wasn't designed to be used as a Unity plugin will work as a Unity plugin. It's all free so you could download Unity, fire up the demo project, and then try to integrate your Objective C library.

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Will attempt to! Thank you. –  Joel Hernandez Apr 16 '14 at 1:25
    
Assuming the free version of Unity can load this kind of plugin? Well, anyway there's a 1-month free trial of the paid version. –  Lohoris Apr 16 '14 at 15:46
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The free version can load plugins for iOS and Android but not for standalone. –  jhocking Apr 16 '14 at 17:57

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