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Audi Lou Abatayo
2,645 PointsAndroid Studio vs. Unity
If I wanted to build a 3d game for mobile applications(based on android), should I use Android Studio or Unity?
I checked out the two and understood that the foundation for Android is Java, while Unity is C#. So now I'm confused as to what language I should really be learning first. :| Can anyone share their thoughts??
2 Answers
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherIf you want to make a Unity game for Android, you'll need to use Unity.
The scripts you write in Unity are indeed written in C#, but Unity uses a virtual machine on target devices and has a scripting backend called IL2CPP that will translate your project into the code needed for a given device. In other words, you can make your game in Unity and build for Android, and Unity will figure out how to build your project for an Android device.
Audi Lou Abatayo
2,645 PointsOh, I see. Thank you very much for making it clear to me. :)