current community

your communities

more stack exchange communities

company blog
Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges
tour help
Game Development Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for professional and independent game developers. Join them; it only takes a minute:

Sign up
Here's how it works:
  1. Anybody can ask a question
  2. Anybody can answer
  3. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top
up vote 0 down vote favorite

Unity Remote is good app. It allows to connect with Unity while you are running your project in Play mode from the editor.

But what if I want to test game but I don't have an Android phone? Yes, it happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have a great Android emulator: Nox APP Player

screenshot

The emulator doesn't have USB, so it just show me standsrt text Connect device with a USB cable ..... bla bla bla ...Game in the Unity Editor is running...emulator doesn't display the game.

Can I somehow connect this emulator to unity using Unity Remote? Or using something else? How?

share|improve this question
    
Do You have adb running? Did You inatalled unity remote on emulator? – Axxxon Jul 26 '16 at 14:36
    
@Axxxon of course I have installed Unity Remote ))) And I don't know about ADB, but I installed USB Debug and I enable option USB Debugging (debug mode when USB is connected) ..... But emulator doesn't have USB and that option is not make sense...I think – Alexey Shimansky Jul 26 '16 at 14:50
    
adb is part of android sdk which allows to check for connected devices, upload files, etc. and which is propably used by unity remote. What is output of adb in your case when emulators runs? Something like:List of devices attached: emulator-5554 device? – Axxxon Jul 27 '16 at 6:50
up vote 2 down vote

I was able to run Unity Remote 4 on standard Android emulator.

Final efect looks something like Final effect

Whole procedure:

  1. Install Unity and open some Unity tutorial project (2D Roguelike tutorial in my case)
  2. Install JDK, Android SDK and setup Android emulator using AVD Manager. My emulator config looks like this:Emulator config

Important note: CPU/ABI option seems to be one of most important ones(Intel x86 emulator didn't work for me)

  1. Then install Unity Remote 4 from apk file to emulator using command: adb.exe install path/to/apk (Windows) or adb install path/to/apk (Linux/Mac).
  2. Then in Edit > Preferences > External Tools - set paths to Android SDK and JDK
  3. In Edit > Project Settings > Editor in section Unity Remote select: Any Android Device.
  4. In File > Build Settings - add Your scenes and switch platform to Android.
  5. Press PLAY in Unity while Android Emulator is running and Unity Remote 4 app is opened.

Tip: At first I needed to restart unity after all changes, because it wasn't starting game on emulator. Now it runs everytime.

Note: My emulator config was only for test purposes, so You can find better config for yourself.

Note2: I have not tested this solution with other emulators like: Nox App Player or Genymotion.

Note3: Using emulator may be very laggy.

share|improve this answer
    
Thanks for your answer. It works for AVD Manager emulators.I've tried them too, before I asked the question, and they didn't work because of CPU/ABI Intel x86 as you said...now it works with ARM armeabi... Unfortunately NOX APP PLayer doesn't connect...may be it because its not have CPU/ABI settings....it is said....Because NOX APP has touch simulating, screen shaking and other good stuff for checking game. AVD emulators doesn't have these things :'-( therefore they are useless for me....I upvote your answer and I'll accept it later – Alexey Shimansky Jul 27 '16 at 13:12

Your Answer

 
discard

By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.