Lean GUI

Name: Lean GUI
Brand: Carlos Wilkes
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (76 reviews)

LaunchedJun 20197y

UpdatedMar 20242.2yAbandoned?

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Pros

This asset is an exceptionally high-value, free toolkit that significantly accelerates UI development by providing a robust suite of components for tweening, transitions, dragging, and interactive elements. It is highly praised for its lightweight footprint, seamless integration with the standard Unity UI system, and a comprehensive library of example scenes that demonstrate complex functionality like constrained dragging, joysticks, and responsive tooltips. For designers and developers who prefer inspector-based workflows, it offers a plug-and-play experience that drastically reduces the time required to implement polished, professional-grade UI animations and interactions.

While an unbeatable free prototyping tool for solo developers, its lack of comprehensive documentation and rigid inspector-centric architecture makes it a risky choice for complex, production-grade projects requiring deep programmatic control.

Cons

The asset suffers from a steep learning curve for beginners due to a lack of step-by-step documentation or setup tutorials, often forcing users to reverse-engineer complex prefabs to understand component dependencies. Advanced developers may find it restrictive, as the heavy reliance on inspector-based configuration limits programmatic control, specifically regarding script-based callbacks and the absence of 'SetValueWithoutNotify' functionality. Additionally, users have reported occasional bugs involving input handling conflicts between mouse and touch, intermittent UI locking issues, and occasional NullReferenceExceptions in the custom inspector scripts.

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Description

📄 Docs 💬 Forum 🌐 Site

💡 Many Demo Scenes ― Lean GUI includes a wide range of tutorial demo scenes, which take you step-by-step through each feature. These scenes contain detailed description text, which explain what is being shown, which components were used, and which settings were used.

💡 Easy To Use ― Lean GUI was designed to be as flexible as possible, while still being easy to use. To achieve this, each component is fully modular, follows Unity’s inspector design style, has intuitively named settings, and includes detailed tooltip text. If you're a programmer then full C# source code is also included, allowing you to create and modify anything you like!

💡 Long Term Support ― Lean assets have received regular updates for over 6 years. Thank you to everyone who was downloaded, rated, reviewed, and provided feedback so far!

💡 LeanButton ― Allows you to make responsive buttons that activate as soon as you begin touching them, and perform advanced transitions with just a few clicks!

💡 LeanDrag ― Allows you to freely drag UI elements around the screen - no need to use a ScrollRect!

💡 LeanTooltip + LeanTooltipData ― Allows you to add tooltips to any UI element!

💡 LeanJoystick ― Allows you to make on screen joysticks. In both a circle and box shape!

💡 LeanHitbox ― Allows you to change the UI element hitbox so that can be clicked based on the graphic image shape!

💡 LeanOrientation ― Allows you to make UI elements that change layout between portrait and landscape display modes!

💡 LeanHover ― Allows you to make UI elements that appear when you hover over something!

💡 LeanShake ― Allows you to easily shake UI elements!

💡 LeanPulse ― Allows you to easily make notifications or alerts!

💡 LeanSwipe ― Allows you to detect when the user swipes on top of the current UI element, allowing you to perform a custom action!

💡 LeanResize ― Allows you easily make UI elements that can be resized!

💡 LeanToggle ― Allows you to make UI elements that can toggle between two states!

💡 LeanSwitch ― Allows you to make UI elements that can toggle between any number of states!

💡 LeanWindow ― Allows you to make modal windows that can later be closed in the correct order!

💡 LeanSelection + LeanSelectionHighlight ― Allows you to make custom keyboard navigation selection effects!

💡 LeanSafeArea ― Allows you to make UI elements that take into account notches on mobile device screens!

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This asset uses the VarelaRound font under SIL OFL 1.1; see Third-Party Notices.txt file in package for details.