Requesting download size & pre-downloading(caching) remote groups?

Will there be some API to use that will check the size of the asset you might be trying to download?
Like I'd want to know how many bundles need to be downloaded and how much data that will be so I can prompt my user for confirmation to download the bundles. On a mobile platform that would be a mobile data friendly thing to do instead of burning through their data.

Also will there be a way to cache an entire remote group that consists of several smaller bundles? That way you could download remote updated content and make sure that all critical content is locally available before using it (instantiation / loading into memory).

 

This would definitely come in handy... we used to have a very... "hacky" system that we ourselves cached the sizes of asset bundles at build time, and when downloading we would refer to a dictionary to find the size of all the bundles beign downloaded and use the percentages to estimate how much was downloaded or not... I mean, it worked, but was a lot of work for such a basic info... would be useful if Unity did this size caching itself, would make life much simpler

 

+1
Addressables are not production-ready without it as iOS requires this info for all new content downloads.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#minimum-functionality

(iii) If your app needs to download additional resources, disclose the size of the download and prompt users before doing so. Existing apps must comply with this guideline in any update submitted after January 1, 2019.

 

Oh wow I did not even know that Apple had actually changed their guidelines for this.
Thank you for the heads up. I wanted this functionality to make it "User Mobile Data Friendly" but this makes it an actual requirement!

 

wow that is good to know... thanks for pointing it out, one more reason to get sizes as part of the system!

 

+1

waiting for the new address system.

 

Thanks for pointing out the new Apple requirement. I've added this to our task list.

 

Any update on this topic ?? I know that we can now get the PercentComplete from the IAsyncOperation but how we can know the size of the asset bundles ?? (I am using the 0.5.3 version)

 

That'll be there in the next release or next+1 (almost certainly next).

-Bill

 

Are there updates about this?
I'd like to substitute a simple tool I made to update game data with addressables, but I can't without this feature.

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c...ressables_GetDownloadSizeAsync_System_Object_

 

Great, thanks, I missed that function!