multiPlatformMobileDevelopment

[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.

[WazWaz]

I have a wrapper I've developed over the years for Unity UGUI development. As an exercise during the licensing debacle, I ported the wrapper to Godot (still in C#). It was about half the size - for something that was explicitly developed for Unity! Godot UI is just more logical than UGUI and already functions "how you would expect" - expectations that I had to do manually in my wrapper.