Display Unity Scene as Sub View in android studio

Question

I\'m a bit confused about displaying 3D models and graphics in android studio projects.

I\'ve been working a lot with Rajawali, which is a Android OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0

Answer 1

What you are looking for is how to display Unity Scene as a subview.

Something like below:

This is described here on Unity's forum. And the code to load Unity scene:

package com.unity3d.viewexample;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.FrameLayout;
import android.widget.LinearLayout.LayoutParams;

import com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer;


public class JavaCubeViewActivity extends Activity {
    private UnityPlayer m_UnityPlayer;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // Create the UnityPlayer
        m_UnityPlayer = new UnityPlayer(this);
        int glesMode = m_UnityPlayer.getSettings().getInt("gles_mode", 1);
        boolean trueColor8888 = false;
        m_UnityPlayer.init(glesMode, trueColor8888);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        // Add the Unity view
        FrameLayout layout = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.frameLayout2);    
        LayoutParams lp = new LayoutParams (LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
        layout.addView(m_UnityPlayer.getView(), 0, lp);
    }
}

You can export the Unity project to Android Android project then use that code above or you can write that Java code then compile it as a jar plugin and make Unity load it by modifying the Android Manifest in Unity. Both method should work.

Finally, you can call C# function on the Unity side from Java with UnityPlayer.SendMessage.

Manifest file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:installLocation="preferExternal" package="com.unity3d.unity" android:versionName="1.0" android:versionCode="1">
  <supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" />
  <application android:icon="@drawable/app_icon" android:label="@string/app_name" android:debuggable="false">
    <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerProxyActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|locale|mnc|mcc|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|uiMode|touchscreen" android:screenOrientation="portrait">
      <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
      </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|locale|mnc|mcc|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|uiMode|touchscreen" android:screenOrientation="portrait">
    </activity>
    <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerNativeActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|locale|mnc|mcc|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|uiMode|touchscreen" android:screenOrientation="portrait">
      <meta-data android:name="android.app.lib_name" android:value="unity" />
      <meta-data android:name="unityplayer.ForwardNativeEventsToDalvik" android:value="false" />
    </activity>
    <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.VideoPlayer" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|locale|mnc|mcc|navigation|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|uiMode|touchscreen" android:screenOrientation="portrait">
    </activity>
  </application>
  <uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00020000" />
  <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" android:targetSdkVersion="15" />
</manifest>

EDIT:

If you want to call Unity's function from Java, use

UnityPlayer.UnitySendMessage("GameObjectName", "MethodName", "parameter to send");

You can find more information on this and how to import it into Android Studio here.