Godot Daily: UI Controls Major Overhaul

Godot received significant UI system improvements with custom maximum sizing for controls, ping-pong animation support, and Android API 36 compatibility fixes. Ten pull requests were merged focusing on container layouts, text rendering optimizations, and cross-platform enhancements.

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  • Show: Godot Daily
  • Published: 2026-04-07T00:00:00Z
  • Audio duration: PT1M56S

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Good morning, this is Godot Daily for April 7th, 2026.

Today brought substantial improvements to Godot's UI system. Thaddeus Crews merged a major pull request adding custom maximum size properties to Control nodes, enabling more flexible layout management across containers including BoxContainer, GridContainer, and ScrollContainer. This change affects 47 files and…

Animation systems received an upgrade with ping-pong playback support for SpriteFrames, AnimatedSprite2D, and AnimatedSprite3D nodes. This adds reverse animation capabilities that developers have requested for smoother animation workflows.

The Android platform sees better compatibility with API level 36 through improved back navigation handling. Meanwhile, Windows users will benefit from OneCore WinRT emoji picker integration when available on their systems.

Performance optimizations landed for RichTextLabel with reduced RID usage and increased maximum RID counts for accessibility and text server components. The .NET integration expanded with MSBuild properties enabling Godot.NET preview functionality.

StarryWorm contributed extensive test coverage, adding comprehensive test suites for container nodes including…

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