Optimizing Performance in iOS.

Making games for the iPhone/iPad is fun. But in order for your game to be successful, you need to make it run smoothly. Therefore, it is important to understand the graphical capabilities and processing power of the iPhone.

You should expect the iPhone/iPad capabilities to be somewhere between the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable. Please plan your games accordingly!

Thankfully, Unity is there for you! We have spent a lot of time and energy making Unity-created iOS projects run fast. Below we have gathered some guidelines which will help you to achieve better performance on iOS:

• Optimizing Graphics Performance
  • Draw Call Batching
  • Modeling Optimized Characters
  • Rendering Statistics Window
• Optimizing Physics Performance
• Optimizing Script Performance
• Measuring Performance with the Built-in Profiler
• Tuning Main Loop Performance
• Optimizing iOS Players build Size

Page last updated: 2010-09-24

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