

There are occasional bugs to fix in the mobile version, such as this one showing patchy trails on an iOS phone at high simulation speeds. We’re also currently hiring a cross-platform engineer to help bring Universe Sandbox to mobile and beyond. We have been working on numerous updated user interface designs that improve functionality and clarity no matter what device you are on, and implementing those is one of our major next steps. Lower amounts of memory on mobile phones, as well as hardware limitations leading to poor performance, are two of the challenges we are still working on to get Universe Sandbox to run smoothly on mobile devices.



If you do try this, you’ll notice it presents quite a design challenge, not only for existing features but also for any features we add. You can check out how we are building this flexible user interface right now by making the window in the desktop version small. In Update 26, we unified the user interface across desktop and VR, and we’re continuing to develop this unified interface with physically smaller (that is, mobile) screens in mind. For the last few months, we’ve been focusing on making sure the mobile version is just as fun to play as the desktop version.
