v1.0.0

Release 1.0.0 - Launch - 2026/09

The first release of Unity UI Toolkit Extensions - a brand-new companion to the long-running uGUI Extensions library, built from the ground up for Unity 6 and the UI Toolkit (UITK) system.

Two packages. One ecosystem. These notes cover the UI Toolkit package (com.unity.uitoolkitextensions). It launches alongside the V3 relaunch of its sibling under the shared 3.0 banner: UI Extensions (uGUI).

Note

The UIToolkitExtensions-1.0.0.unitypackage is marketed different to the OpenUPM release and are incompatible, so use one or the other. This is due to how Unity handles referencing for UIToolkit related sources.
We strongly recommend you use the OpenUPM release so as not to "dirty" your solution.
But if you wouldn't mind supporting the project, either through one of the Donation Options or purchasing the Unity asset, we would be eternally grateful.

Highlights

• Built for Unity 6 + UI Toolkit - a native UITK control library targeting Unity 6000.0 and above, distributed via the Unity Package Manager / OpenUPM.
• 25 controls out of the box - covering navigation, layout, forms, media, toggles, and feedback, all using the Unity.UI.Extensions namespace.
• Editor menu and starter templates - add any control to a scene or document from the GameObject/UI Toolkit/Extensions and Assets/Create/UI Toolkit/Extensions menus, with demo content and styling already wired up.
• Reusable utilities - helpers for code-first VisualElement construction, attention animations, and procedural textures.
• 12 ready-to-run sample scenes - included as a UPM sample, demonstrating the controls in realistic combinations.

Added

The initial release contains 25 controls and a handful of extensions plus utilities to help making UI Toolkit UX far easier.

Editor integration

• Editor menu integration - a new GameObject/UI Toolkit/Extensions menu adds any of the 22 UXML-placeable controls to the scene in basic form with demo content, automatically creating a UIDocument and PanelSettings (with the default runtime theme) if the scene has none. The UI Toolkit counterpart of the uGUI Extensions GameObject/UI/Extensions menu.
• Starter templates - per-control starter UXML templates with demo content, also available from Assets/Create/UI Toolkit/Extensions for dropping into existing documents. Instantiated copies are placed under Assets/UI Toolkit Extensions so they remain freely editable.
• Self-applying control styles - while authoring (UI Builder) and in Play Mode, controls attach the shared extensions stylesheet automatically on construction, so they render correctly without manually referencing the stylesheet. Overlay controls (DropDownControl, DropDownMenuControl, ImageCropOverlayControl) also style their root-attached panels directly. In player builds, styling comes from the explicit stylesheet references in the starter templates and from the theme generated by the editor menu (which imports the shared stylesheet panel-wide).

Controls

Navigation & Layout

• ScrollSnap - Page-based snap scroller with manual/swipe modes, validation gating, and restricted-movement events.
• QuadrantStepper - Segmented sliding-overlay step selector for tab bars, mode switchers, and category filters.
• CollapsibleSection - Accordion panel with animated max-height expand/collapse, ideal for FAQs and settings groups.
• PageDotIndicator - Row of pagination dots; all dots up to and including the current page are highlighted.
• StepProgressBar - Horizontal gradient fill bar driven by step counts.
• ScreenHeader - Configurable top app-bar with title, notch spacer, and up to four edge action buttons (events only, no app state).
• ElasticListView - Vertical list with iOS-style elastic overscroll and an optional swipe-up "load more" trigger. Items can be declared as child elements in UXML or added with plain Add(), as well as from code with AddItem()/SetItems().
• DropDownMenuControl - Anchored overlay action menu with large tappable rows and backdrop-tap dismiss (distinct from the value-picker DropDownControl).

Inputs & Forms

• PillInputField - Mobile-aware labeled text input with password mode, multiline support, and validation events.
• RoundedInputField - Rounded input field with custom placeholder rendering.
• PillSelector - Read-only tap-to-open selector row with chevron icon.
• PillButton - Pill-shaped gradient CTA button with flash feedback animation.
• IconLabelButton - Row button with a 24 × 24 icon and label, ideal for menu items and list actions.
• DropDownControl - Custom dropdown selector with a scrollable list of selectable entries.
• SocialLinkContainer - Editable list of platform-labelled social-link fields with add/remove and a platform picker.

Media & Images

• CircularImageButton - Circular tappable image with no-image overlay, ideal for avatars and profile photos.
• GrayscaleImage - Immediate-mode image renderer with a toggleable greyscale shader effect.
• LoadingIcon - Rotating spinner with configurable speed and optional interaction blocking.
• ImageCropOverlayControl - Interactive overlay for framing and cropping an image.

Toggles & Selection

• ToggleButton - Binary image toggle that fires an event on every press.
• ColorToggleButton - Tint-colored toggle with ripple animation and selected overlay (extends ToggleButton).
• ColorToggleGroup - Single-selection group of ColorToggleButton items with tap and drag-to-select support.

Feedback & Utility

• ToastSwipeDismissManipulator - Pointer manipulator that adds swipe-to-dismiss gesture handling to any element.
• ComingSoonMessage - Centered placeholder panel for in-progress features.
• NotificationBadge - Small rounded unread-count badge that auto-hides at zero and clamps to "99+".

Utilities

• UIToolkitExtensions - Static helper for creating, parenting, and wiring VisualElements from code.
• VisualElementShakeUtility - Horizontal shake animation for validation and attention feedback.
• ProceduralTextureUtility - Generates procedural textures (e.g. rounded rects and gradients) for control styling.

Examples

Included as the UI Toolkit Extensions Samples package sample:

• ScrollSnap + PageDotIndicator - Horizontal paging with dot indicator and a ComingSoonMessage page.
• Registration Form - Full form using PillInputField, RoundedInputField, PillButton, PillSelector, and shake validation.
• Step Wizard - Multi-step flow using QuadrantStepper and StepProgressBar.
• Content Explorer - LoadingIcon reveal with CollapsibleSection and IconLabelButton items.
• Profile Editor - CircularImageButton, GrayscaleImage, ToggleButton, and ColorToggleGroup.
• Toast Notifications - Swipe-to-dismiss toast stack using ToastSwipeDismissManipulator.
• Dropdown Phone Entry - Phone-number entry pairing a country-code DropDownControl with PillInputFields.
• Image Crop Overlay - Pan / pinch-zoom crop flow using ImageCropOverlayControl and CircularImageButton.
• Notification List - Elastic notification feed using ElasticListView, NotificationBadge, and PillButton.
• Screen Header - Top app-bar demo wiring ScreenHeader's title and action events.
• Scroll Snap (Split Views) - The same ScrollSnap built three ways - C#, UXML, and a split layout.
• Social Links - Editable social-links section using SocialLinkContainer and PillButton.