What's the status on this?

Hey. We are still actively developing it, working on it every day.

We have recived a lot of useful feedback, we decided that some core aspects needed a rewrite before we go forward so thats what we are doing now. Its a big change so the next release is likely going to be a few months away.
There was a plan to do a talk at Unite next week and roll out a release then but we couldnt get a free slot, its a busy one this year!

We have not pushed to be public on the package manager yet as we still want to do a lot more work first, we already know what the most common requests are so theres not much point going any more public until we have finished those features.

Some info on what we have changed:

- Merged all asset table types into a single table - AssetTable. This table can now hold any Unity asset type.
- Added support for Smart Strings - Heres an early preview https://twitter.com/KarlJamesJones/status/1172164381687320577
- Added Metadata support for Locales, Keydatabase, Tables and Table Entries.
This lets you attach additional information such as:

• Comments,
  
• Fallback details,
  
• Preload details,
  
• Font info
  
• Locale specific component values(such as RectTranform properties for some text etc).
• Etc

Once we have support for external formats (Google sheets, localization file formats etc) then we plan to go public on the package manager. This does depend on another package that is not yet released though.(data pipeline)
We want to be out of preview late next year.

I hope this helps. At the moment we are mainly seeking feedback, we dont want people to start using the package for production as a lot is changing. Once we go public in the package manager then the changes should be smaller and we expect people to start using the package.

 

Data pipeline. More info next year

 

It should be in the package manager. What version are you using?
I would actually hold off on trying 0.4.0 as we have changed a lot. 0.5.0 should be out in the next few months.

 

Yes all tables have changed, for the better

 

We are very small. We have some background technology that has some people in our Tokyo office (not sure of the number), the editor localisation is a few, the package is largely me at core with assistance from other teams for integration(Addressables, data pipeline, UI, editor etc). Then we have the usual qa, docs and reviewers etc. It's actually not that an unusual size.

Most of the work is building on existing and in development technologies so time is spent working with those teams to get things right (e.g Addressables).

 

We do support 2019.3 and the plan is to stick with that as our minimum. Next release is scheduled for around November 1st.

The whole thing is built on top of Addressables so we kind of need to support that
Smart strings are working now and they are optional so you can just use normal strings if you wish.

Right now I'm adding back in preload behaviour then test and documentation.

 

We integrated a modified version of this library to give you a flexible system for formatting strings
https://github.com/axuno/SmartFormat

https://github.com/axuno/SmartFormat/wiki

 

We have had discussions with the UIElements team. It's on our roadmap but not available yet. We will certainly be working towards an integration though. It's still possible to do now but with scripts, hopefully not with hacks