Released: Sep 21, 2018

Updates in 2018 Volume 3

Features

• Text Input Layout
  • New control - The new text input layout adds decorative elements like floating label, icons, and assistive labels on top of input views such as SfMaskedEdit, SfNumericTextBox, Entry and Editor controls (Xamarin.Forms only).
• TreeView
  • New control - Treeview is a data-oriented control that displays data in a hierarchical structure with expanding and collapsing nodes. It is commonly used to illustrate a folder structure or nested relationships in an application.
• Image Editor
  • Text and custom view rotation - Provided support to rotate text, and custom view over an image.
  • Text effects - Text annotation can be customized with font styles such as bold, italics, and underline.
  • Multiline text and text alignment - Multiple-line text can be added using return key. Text can also be aligned to center, left, and right positions.
  • Custom size and custom format - Provided an option to save an image in various sizes, and images can also be saved in different formats like .png,.jpg, and .bmp.
• Essential PDF
  • Complex script - Add complex script language text to PDF documents.
  • Timestamp - Timestamp the existing PDF document.
  • Signature validation - Appearance of a signature will change based on the signature validation.
  • Measurement annotation - Add, edit, and flatten measurement annotation in the PDF document.
  • Long-term validation (LTV) - Enable long-term validation in the PDF document
• Essential Presentation
  • Slide transitions - Create, edit, and remove slide transitions in PowerPoint presentations.
• Calendar
  • The loading and navigation performance of the calendar control have been improved. Now, the loading time is about 30% faster than previous versions (Android and iOS only).
  • Chart
  • Histogram series - A new histogram chart type has been added. The histogram chart is a bar (column) chart for frequency distribution in which the widths of the bars are proportional to the classes into which the variables have been divided and the heights of the bars are proportional to the class frequencies.
  • Stacked doughnut - Stacked doughnut support has been provided to visualize the chart in a set of concentric circles.
  • Axis label wrap - Axis labels can be wrapped into multiple rows if two labels collide with each other.
  • Dashes support - Dashes support has been provided to the polar and radar charts when they are rendered as line types.
  • Area background customization - The color and stroke of the plotting area can be customized.
  • Designer support - The SFChart can be added to the storyboard from the toolbox and the actual output can be previewed in the designer (iOS only).
• Diagram
  • Overview panel - The overview panel is used to display a preview (an overall mini-view) of the entire diagram. This helps users see the overall picture of a large diagram and navigate to a position on the page using the view port rectangle.
  • Free-form layout - The mind map free-form layout provides an option to rearrange nodes in a layout.
  • Drag-and-drop support for directed tree layout - Now, it is easier to drag a child or parent node to another node in the directed tree layout.
  • Diagram style settings - It is easier to apply default rendering styles to all shapes, connectors, stencil symbols, and stencil headers in a diagram.
  • Zooming enhancement - With support for customizing zoom levels, you can set a minimum zoom level value as low as 0.01f and a maximum level up to infinity.
  • Customizing user handle position - Now, the user handle position can be adjusted from its default position.
  • Layout sibling spacing - It is easy to provide spacing between sibling nodes of any branch on the directed tree layout. Nodes can also be excluded from the layout.
• Maps
  • Color mapping support for bubbles - This feature provides color mapping for bubbles to customize their colors based on the underlying shape values.
  • Access imagery layer’s tile images from application cache - Imagery layer’s zooming performance has been improved by caching tile images in application cache memory.
  • Sublayer support - Feature that supports adding a sublayer over a main shape layer to view roads or river areas in maps.
  • Data label smart alignment support - This feature smartly aligns labels within shape boundaries and avoids label overlap.
  • Legend customization support - Customize legend items and the legend’s position.
  • Image support for marker icon - Add an image in the marker icon.
• PDF Viewer
  • Bookmark navigation - Bookmark navigation support in PDF Viewer allows users to navigate between PDF pages using predefined bookmarks present in the PDF document.
• Progress Bar
  • Range color support - Map colors to the range in the circular progress bar.
• Schedule
  • Recurrence exceptions support - Skip or change particular occurrences of a recurring appointment by setting exceptions for that recurring appointment.
  • Selection text color customization - Customize the selection text color of month cells.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Excel worksheet to image - Worksheets with data, styles, conditional formats, rich text, text alignment, pivot tables, images, text boxes, and Unicode characters can be converted to image formats.
  • Excel to HTML - Workbooks with multiple worksheets or a single worksheet with data, styles, conditional formats, rich text, text alignment, images, and text boxes can be converted to HTML.
  • Data import enhancement - Images, data with URLs, and data with mail IDs are imported as hyperlinks from various data sources into Excel.
  • Pivot table - Supports sorting pivot value fields by direction.
  • Formula - Supports calculation of external formula references.