avatarchik / unityhubnative

A native alternative to the heavy Electron Unity Hub, written in C++

Unity Hub Native

UnityHubNative is a lightweight C++ / wxWidgets alternative to the unnecessarily heavy official Unity Hub, built using my wxWidgets Template repository. This means that, instead of using heavy web components like the official Electron hub, it uses native GUI components on all platforms.

It launches many times faster, uses far less memory and CPU, and is a fraction of the total size of the offical Unity Hub.

Supports Mac dark mode!

Features

• Add an existing project to the list using the Add Existing button
• Open projects by double-clicking them in the list, or by selecting them and pressing Enter
• Create new unity projects with templates, for any modern Unity version you have installed, with the Create New button
• View Unity installs by double clicking them in the list views in the Editor Versions section
• Update projects to a Unity version of your choosing

UnityHubNative does not have every feature that the official hub has, namely installing / managing Unity Installs. There is a Manage button in the Editor Versions page which will launch the official hub. In addition, you cannot uninstall the official Unity Hub. This app serves as a shortcut to get into your projects faster.

Installation

This application is self-contained on Windows and macOS.

1. Open the Releases section, and download the version for your platform.
2. Place the executable anywhere. (Recommended /Applications on Mac, C:\Program Files on Windows, and /usr/bin on Linux)
3. Double click to run

Application data files

This application stores its own files in an application data directory. If the application is behaving unexpectedly or is not working at all, try removing the folder at these locations:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/UnityHubNative
• Windows: %APPDATA%/UnityHubNative
• Linux: ~/UnityHubNative

Compiling it yourself

macOS

1. Open mac.xcodeproj in Xcode.
2. Select AppStatic from the target selector.
3. Press Build (cmd + b). Everything will compile in one step.

Windows

1. In the repository root folder, open windows.sln
2. select your configuration (Debug/Release, X86/x64)
3. Build.

Linux

1. In the repository root folder, run make. The app will compile to linux-build/. If you are missing a dependency, the build system will stop and alert you with which dependency is missing.
   • You will need to have the webkit2gtk3 package installed for your system. For Fedora, this can be installed with sudo dnf install webkit2gtk3-devel.x86_64 and for Debian/Ubuntu it can be installed with sudo apt install webkit2gtk-driver

Issues

Please report all problems in the Issues section of this repository. Make sure to include as many details as possible, or I won't be able to fix it.