I googled about this and could not find anything.
Has anyone create any non-games with unity? Since it still is the only option for coding for some people…
As far as the GUI and the WWW classes how limitless is unity?
For example… Are all the tools there to make a basic RSS reader (the networking classes and the GUI classes)
You should have, since googling “unity non-game” immediately comes up with some good results. This is my non-game Unity app.
–Eric
Not that Unity can’t be used for programs other than games, but how is it anyone’s only option for coding?
Also, it’s not appropriate for some things even if it’s technically possible…the RSS reader, for example: I’m not sure it makes much sense to have the overhead of a 3D engine hanging around for that.
–Eric
what I mean is
I don’t want to pay $399 for monotouch… And I do not want to spend time figuring out Objective C…
I am already learning Unity 3d for my iphone programming so why not use it for apps also ?
Nothing advanced… Just call some web services and display some info…
I am guessing this is still easier to do in unity than Objecttive C?.. though you wont get the native gui.
You didn’t say anything about iPhone development. 
Because of the extra limitations and expectations of that platform, as great as Unity is, I wouldn’t recommend it for “standard” applications.
–Eric
oops… yes I meant Iphone…
ofcourse non iphone theres is already C#.NET/WPF/Silverlight
But for iphone it still doesnt seem like a bad idea since wethere its 3d gfx or calling a webservice I am under th eimpression its all easier to code with unity than anything else…
Maybe in the future Unity can work more on the GUI side and have Datagrids etc… with the idea to make creating applications more attractive
Not really, since you don’t have direct access to the standard iPhone UI API. You can hack various things with links to native Objective-C code in Unity, but then it would be easier just to do it all natively in the first place.
–Eric
Or do what he realized himself: Invest in MonoTouch if one does not want to learn objc or just has a keyboard layout where the total overdriven use of [ ] actually wastes a lot of time, especially as apple is not following the correct keyboard layouts for non us keyboards at all and actually never has.
itll already take me awhile just to get the 99 dev
then the $199 unity
then the $?? unity iphone
so on top of that to learn monotouch I dunno. …
though there is a evaluation atleast I hear