Integration with Unity Device Simulator

• Unity Device Simulator Package UPM page.

This package augments a secondary GameView, there is a new drop down added to your Game tab. When in this new "Simulator" GameView, the Screen and SystemInfo API will change depending on selected device. Therefore anything that relies on Screen or SystemInfo could be realistically presented in editor.

Also it comes with several overlays, which goes beyond the device screen to an actual device's edge. (Unlike Notch Simulator which is only the screen area.) It has more tricks than that, including simulating device temperature, etc. It is a very complete package.

Both "more than 1 GameView" and the Screen/SystemInfo hacking from inside-out are only available after 2019.3 in the engine code if you look at UnityCsReference. You cannot use this package before this version.

• Watch the Unite Copenhagen 2019 talk.

So it supercede Notch Solution?

No! It may looked like a competitor to Notch Solution at first glance, but in fact you should use it together. Strictly, it supercede only the Notch Simulator part of Notch Solution. The "solution" part is what works together with Device Simulator.

As I said the Device Simulator hacks the Screen and SystemInfo. The simulator cannot make your game "safe", it is able to present a situation and now it is up to your game to respond to them. My Notch Solution components are that. They are something that follows Screen API at runtime. Only in editor that it uses values from Notch Simulator sent to INotchSimulatorTarget.

So the "integration" is basically, there is a code to detect that if the current GameView is from a type in Device Simulator Package, it is likely that Screen right now is being controlled to be more useful. We then can use Screen like in runtime instead of our simulated values. Notch Simulator stop working automatically when the Game view is switched to Simulator mode and continue working when switched out to normal GameView.

So it supercede Notch Simulator?

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But wait :

• The overlay is drawn on the Game tab with a shader. It doesn't exist on Scene tab unlike our "hacky" full screen hidden Canvas approach. If you want to see the overlay in Scene tab too then you can still find Notch Simulator useful.
• Notch Simulator also put overlay in prefab mode. If you design a piece of UI that is not right now visible on Game tab, or you don't want to press save in prefab mode to see the change that Device Simulator could affect in the Game tab, then Notch Simulator maybe still useful.
• You like the A-B configuration switch or quick on-off shortcuts in Notch Simulator then you can continue using it. You maybe able to write a custom shortcuts to Device Simulator too but I have not investigate it yet.