Automated Unity iOS build on Mac

Question

I am doing the iOS builds for a group of Unity (Unity3d) game developers.

After pulling the latest git updates, I start up the Unity editor on my Mac and choose "Build Settings", select the iOS target platform, press Build, specify a destination folder and that is it.

Can this exact process be done automatically via the terminal prompt?

Answer 1

What you would need to do is create an editor method in Unity that does the iOS building:

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer.html

And then call that method via the Unity command line arguments.

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/CommandLineArguments.html

/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/MacOS/Unity -quit -batchmode -executeMethod MyEditorScript.MyMethod

Answer 2

As Calvin said, you can use the executeMethod switch of Unity's command line to call your own C# command and have some build logic executed. I have written a small article about how to do this. There is also a cheat sheet showing the Unity API to use for specific tasks.