Here is how I was able to set up the android sdk and
export from unity to my android phone. I am not sure if this is the correct way
or the best way but it is how it worked for me.
Firstly you need to get yourself a pro version of unity
you can either buy the expensive licences which are $1,500 for the pro version
and $400 for the android license or you can get the 30 day free trial which is
what I would recommend.
You can get unity by going to the unity website
http://unity3d.com/unity/ and clicking on
the download link in the top right corner. Once it downloads it will pop up
with a choice for either a free license or a 30 day free trial for the pro
version, select the pro version and make an account if you need to or log in
with your email address and password.
Click on the blue button to download the ADT bundle for
windows.
On the next screen agree to the terms and conditions and
download the 32-bit version. You could
try 64 bit but I have heard of there being problems with using the emulator so
I stuck with the 32-bit.
Once the zip folder downloads I extracted it to my C:
drive.
Once you have done this if you open up the
folder there should be 3 items, an eclipse folder, sdk folder and an
application called SDK Manager.
If you open up the SDK Manager application it will have a
list of all the different versions of android and two folders one called tools
and one called Extras. You want to open up the extras folder and make sure that
the Google USB Driver is installed as you may need this driver to use your
phone properly.
Before you plug your phone in you need to enable USB
debugging inside the developer options which can be found within the settings
on your phone.
If you now plug in your android phone, it should
automatically install the drivers for you and your phone should be recognised
as an Android device in the device manager. If not you will need to install the
Google usb driver that we just downloaded.
You can install the driver to your phone by selecting
your phone in the device manager.
In my case my phone was under the portable
devices.
If
you right click and open up the properties and then go to drivers and then
update driver and select “browse my computer for driver software” and find the
following folder.
And hit next the driver should be installed and your
phone should be recognised as an android device. If not then I’m sorry you are
on your own I don’t know how to fix that L.
Once this is set up we should be able to make a new unity
project which can be exported to the phone.
I am assuming you know how to do some basic things in
unity, like make a new project, add objects and scripts to the project etc.
First thing to do is to make a new project in unity which
we will use to export to our phone.
Inside this new project let’s add a cube and a plane and
we will move the cube about using the accelerometers.
So once you have added the cube and plane and a
directional light you should have something that looks like this.
Once you have this add a new c# script called
MovableObject and input the following code
Drag this script onto the cube object so that it is
attached. This will allow us to move an object using the
accelerometers.
Next we need to set up unity to get it ready to
export to the phone. To do this we need to go to Edit->Project
Settings->Player and you should be presented with the following screen.
You
want to select the little android icon and set the default orientation to
landscape left. And then select the Other Settings option lower down the page.
Here we need to make sure that the company name and
product name match up with the bundle identifier. It should be
com.CompanyName.ProductName so we need to change that to match the company name
and product name we have chosen. This step is important or else it will crash
when you try and export.
After this we are almost ready to build and run. We just
need to set up the build settings.
To do this goto file->Build Settings
Here you need to select android and then add current to
add the scene that we want to export to the build. Once you have done this your
screen should look the same as the one above and we should be able to hit build
and run!
Save the file anywhere you would like and name it
whatever you want, Remember your phone needs to be plugged in.
The first time you run, unity will ask for the location of
the android sdk, here find the folder that we downloaded earlier the one called
adt-bundle-windows-x86_64 and select that.
It will come up saying it is building the scene
and pushing to the device.
Unity should open up on your phone and there should be a
cube which you can move about the screen by tilting the phone!
I hope this was helpful for you and made sense
it was done in a bit of a rush but if you have any questions email me at 10004794@napier.ac.uk and I will see if
I can help.
