Released: Apr 21, 2016

Updates in this release

Updates in 2016 Volume 1

Autocomplete

• Image Support - The autocomplete control provides image support to append an image along with suggested text.
• Carousel - The carousel control allows navigating through images in an interactive way so that they can be viewed or selected. Item arrangement and animation speed can be fully customized in the UI.

Chart

• Radar and Polar Charts - The chart control supports radar and polar charts that display data points in terms of angles and values.
• Series Animation - A chart series can be animated while loading data points.
• Data Template Support for Tooltip - Now, tooltips can be customized through data templates.

Data Grid

• Multiple Selection Color - The data grid control provides extensibility to apply multiple selection colors for rows selected at run time.
• Support to select a row when touching row header cells.
• Support for long press event when pressing for a long time anywhere on the grid.

Numeric Up-Down Control

• The numeric up-down control provides up and down repeat buttons to increase and decrease values. The control respects UI culture and can be configured to display different formats like currency, scientific, etc.

PDF

• Named Destinations - Named destinations can be added in PDF documents for interactive navigation. Destinations and properties can also be edited in existing PDF documents.
• Flattening Annotations - Annotations such as circle, rectangle, polygon, and text markup can be flattened to disable the editing capability.
• Built-in Table Styles - With just a few lines of code, table styles similar to Microsoft Word can be added to PDF grids and light tables.
• GS1-128 Bar Code - GS1-128 bar codes can be added in the PDF document, and the API supports exporting a bar code as an image.

Presentation

• Essential Studio for Xamarin.Forms has added Presentation, which allows creating, reading, writing, and modifying Microsoft PowerPoint files. Presentation supports elements commonly found in a PowerPoint presentation, such as slides, paragraphs, text, images, bullets, numbering, charts, SmartArt, diagrams, shapes, tables, styles, and formatting.

Rotator

• The rotator control allows navigating through images in an interactive way to view or select them. It provides various navigation options like swiping, autoplay, and tapping preview thumbnails or dots.