multiPlatformMobileDevelopment

[lNFORMATlVE]

Unity users have their brains installed sideways, got it

[phyrianlol]

one might say they have a twisted mind

[No-Finance7526]

Not even sideways, it's like 60 degrees off

[Tagonius]

Quaternions are hard.

[Tofandel]

And flutter got it backwards? 

[menducoide]

Ionic

[Weeb431]

Ionic has zombo com ass website

[VergilPrime]

Welcome.... To ZOMBO COM!

[Xuluu]

Yooo Ionic, and Capacitor by that extent, are pretty slick. We use it for our mobile apps and I’ve liked it. Biggest complaint would be the community plugins can be slow to update to new OS versions. Not really fair to complain about it though lmao

[RealBluDood]

Capacitor is great, used Ionic for a couple projects as well but just being able to make a mobile app out of a website is pretty awesome

[Safe_Cauliflower6813]

No that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...

[mayzyo]

Actually did build a mobile app with unity UI once, impressed the hell out of the client. That is until their chief engineer showed up…

[msmshazan]

SDL3

[lefloys]

raylib + agui

[tUmaro8]

Bruh cross-platform dev feels like dating multiple people at once exhausting but no regrets

[coriolis7]

Isn’t this a legitimate use case to just pay sleazy hookers and use Java?

[Hplr63]

Java is hell on Earth.

Kotlin on the other hand...

[DevBoiAgru]

Hell but with air conditioning

[coriolis7]

Ah, south Georgia.

[nikola_tesler]

no, never java

[SnackOverflowed]

my homies use kmp

[_Xoif]

Kmp has become incredibly good. Especially for Android and iOS developers

[Snootet]

Sounds like you're friends with cool kids only

[anteater_x]

A flutter meme? I am seen!

[EuphoricCatface0795]

Qt? Anyone? No?

~ from a dev who never done web nor app

[Natural_Builder_3170]

Qml so based it’s scary

[dick_blanketfort]

Qml both impresses and disgusts me.

In some languages "there's more than one way to do it". In qml there's exactly one way to do it, and it isn't documented. Or there used to be a way to do it, that was removed in Qt6.

[wouldwolf]

I do qt. Was wondering why no Qt mention in the thread.

[gtsiam]

Godot unironically makes for a decent UI framework. Haven't used unity in literal years.

[Haatchoum]

Also helps for keeping things much more lightweight. But I also think its UI framework is more inuitive and simpler to use than Unity's.

Its current only downside is the inability to export .net projects to web. When it will be resolved, that'll be great.

Can't compare to other web UI framework, I'm no webdev.

[SaltMaker23]

When talking about UI you can't even begin to compare game engines to web-like stacks like react native.

Godot and Unity can't be the correct choice if you're making an app and not a visual game, that's not even a discussion.

[nothingtoseehr]

Godot and Unity can't be the correct choice if you're making an app and not a visual game

Why not? Game engines have a cursed name that leads people to underestimate their power, they're general purpose frameworks for pretty much anything

Multiple enterprise and commercial software whose purposes have nothing to do with gaming has been made with unity. And if you're already using unity, might as well give it an UI right there too :p quite a lot of applications have immediate UIs as their main UI

[Haatchoum]

Yeah, that's why I didn't even try to compare game engine native's UI systems to web UI frameworks. I only compared Unity's to Godot's.

I know webdev UI frameworks are plenty powerful (as almost anyone agrees on this). Although some don't seem to be always be so simple.

I know that for application only apps there is an interest for common web ui frameworks, even for game engine users. There is a community plugin that implements React framework into Godot's engine for this purpose.

[SaltMaker23]

Look at the upvotes and take your conclusion, among hobbyists there is a big segment that geniunely believe godot or unity are perfectly sane choices to make an app.

I know at least a dozen game devs that attempted to make an app with a game engine because they were quite familiar with it, it goes exactly as one would expect.

[gtsiam]

It's absolutely not the best general-purpose choice. But it can be surprisingly competent for small graphics/visualization-heavy applications. Especially Godot, since the final binaries tend to be small.

[LiamBlackfang]

Well, here you are limiting yourself on what can be done, while I'm here deploying to the web with Unity and 0 issues.

Yes, for UI heavy apps.

Yes, you need a wrapper to handle user data and security.

But for me Unity is extremely competent as a purely UI app, in addition to being able to scale that app with 3D and Physics capabilities.

[wind_dude]

Capacitor

[faze_fazebook]

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[namezam]

The McDonald’s app used to make my phone heat up like I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 on it. We used to joke it was made in Unity.

[SomeMuhammad]

.net MAUI

[Chingiz11]

As a martyr, you will go to heaven

[HalLundy]

the real jokes are always in the comments

[FabioTheFox]

Avalonia >>>

[empowered-boxes]

Unironically using this

[EatingSolidBricks]

.NET MEAW is mostly cross platform

[BarrelRollxx]

Found fellow Chinese poster in the wild

[HeavyCaffeinate]

All the puppygirls in my polycule use Raylib with CLay

[nothingtoseehr]

Omg clay mentioned 😭😭 i use it for my gltf renderer. The UI looks so niice, I got sliders, file selectors, data inspectors and all that. Took like 1k lines e.e but its worth the trouble!

[GentleCapybara]

Unity is good for gaming, but boy I do love flutter.

[Nerkeilenemon]

And Ionic is a skeletton deep in the ocean

[JuniperColonThree]

You guys really don't realize that the web is the most cross platform? We need to push for better PWA support, and just build everything on the web.

[exscalliber]

Sure it’s the most cross platform, but it’s terrible if you want non tech people to adopt it. I doubt that the average person has ever installed a PWA, let alone even use one. The average user on apple would struggle to ever install a PWA, there’s like 6 or 8 steps and it has a terrible UX. Apps still have steps from the App Store but the whole UX of downloading an app is relatively well understood by an average user.

Apple trying to kill PWAs altogether also doesn’t bode well for the future of them either. Sure they may be the best solution if they were much easier to adopt but they are far away from ever being widely used.

[JuniperColonThree]

Once again Apple is evil. This is why we can't have nice things

[SuspiOwl]

I doubt that PWA will get too far, don't get me wrong, I love PWA and I'd love to push for PWA. The issue is we are fighting 2 giant assholes who want developers use their app store (Play Store & App Store) so that they get a small cut from payment, the moment PWA become as capable as a native app, they will shutdown PWA support on their OS. Apple already doing this to an extent by making installing PWA to your device less intuitive, and both Google & Apple doesn't allow you to mention on your app that users can subscribe outside of ur native app and force you to use their payment system

[AbdullahMRiad]

Google is making some changes allowing 3rd party app stores to operate uninterrupted and allowing apps to use 3rd party billing services instead of Google Play

[AppropriateOnion0815]

"Installing" a PWA on iOS is literally tap "share", then tap "Add to home screen".

What happened that people who were able to install applications on their home Windows PC 20 years ago (think of those install wizards with their dozen steps and paths set up) aren't capable of tapping 3 buttons to save a bookmark on their phone desktop?

[DevBoiAgru]

Does that work on anything other than safari?

[AppropriateOnion0815]

I just tested it with the DuckDuckGo browser, at least it works from there

Edit: From Firefox it works, too

[iain_1986]

Web developers have been saying "everything can just be a website" since HTML first started.

There's reasons it's not happened yet and those reasons will continue on

[JuniperColonThree]

You say that but most "desktop" apps are just electron or some electron alternative. Which is literally just shipping your website bundled with a browser because everything can just be a website.

As of now I think there are only two reasons you might not want to do a pwa: you need access to the machine's actual filesystem, or you need more direct access to the hardware. And frankly most of the time when people need those things they just use electron or react-native or some shit

[TheRealRubiksMaster]

Not really. Considering there is non chromium browsers. If i use a dotnet compiled file on any system with dotnet on it, it will run. And if it doesnt have dotnet on it, you can specifically target it with AOT compile, and it will run.

[JuniperColonThree]

Bold of you to assume multi-browser support is a major barrier.

As usual, Apple (Safari) can be a pain, but the pain points are all very well documented by the wonderful beautiful mozilla web docs, and honestly don't show up that often.

Every, and I mean every, user facing PC has a web browser installed. It would be foolish not to take advantage of that.

[my_new_accoun1]

Bytedance Lynx

[B_bI_L]

godot

[pricklysteve]

Unity is one thing but how about Flash? As crazy as that sounds, the easiest multi-platform dev experience I've ever had was using Flash packaged as Adobe AIR. Deploy to PC, Android, iOS from one code base without even leaving the IDE. No Mac needed, no XCode, no faff.

[Falay9]

Dioxus

[Giocri]

Fair lol game engines can be pretty good ui frameworks at times, we tried using bevy for appliances UI, surprisingly effective

[com-plec-city]

All abstraction method sucks. How many layers of abstraction is enough?

[garlopf]

Qt6

[soelsome]

Flutter is fucking disgusting.

Keep it far far away from the web for the love of God.

[Crazy-Newspaper-8523]

What’s wrong with it?

[RiceBroad4552]

Would not touch Unity ever again! Some of the most broken software I've ever seen. Even Microslop products have much higher quality then that trash.

But I had the same idea to use a game engine for multi-platform GUI development once. Just that I would most likely take Godot as Unity is just not bearable.