Syncfusion Essential Studio for Xamarin 2019 Volume 3

Xamarin.Forms for WPF (Preview)

• WPF support for Xamarin.Forms for the following controls:
  • ListView
  • Scheduler
  • Border
  • Button
  • Chips
  • Switch
  • Radio Button
  • CheckBox
  • Gradient View
  • Segmented Control
  • Text Input Layout

Material design support

• Material design support for the following controls:
  • Accordion
  • Autocomplete
  • Button
  • Calendar
  • CheckBox
  • Chips
  • ComboBox
  • Expander
  • ListView
  • PDF Viewer
  • Picker
  • Popup
  • Radio Button
  • Range Slider
  • Scheduler
  • Switch
  • TreeView

Rich Text Editor (Preview)

• Rich Text Editor for Xamarin.Forms is a WYSIWYG editor that provides a great user experience for composing or editing rich text content from your Xamarin.Forms applications. Users can format their content using standard toolbar commands. Key features
  • Apply formatting such as bold, italics, and underline.
  • Create bulleted and numbered lists.
  • Apply font color and background color to content.
  • Customize text size and selection.
  • Cut, copy, and paste content.

Avatar View (Preview)

• The Avatar View control for Xamarin.Forms provides a graphical representation of a user’s image. The view can be customized by adding an image, gradient background, group view, and more. Key features
  • Displays initials, images, and font icons.
  • Supports customizing border color, background color, and corner radius in the view.
  • Includes avatar characters as built-in vector images.
  • Supports adding up to three images or initials in a single view.
  • Supports different types of visual styles.
  • Supports gradient backgrounds.

Effects View (Preview)

• The Effects View is a container control that provides modern effects like ripple, selection, scaling, and rotation out of the box. Users can render these effects through touch interactions like touch down, touch up, long press, and also by calling the API. Key features
  • Highlight and ripple animations.
  • Selection effect with built-in support for notifications during selection state changes.
  • Scale down, scale up, and rotation effects.

Shimmer (Preview)

• The Shimmer control can be used to improve the responsiveness of an application by showing a modern shimmer effect when the data is being loaded in the background. This control will come with six built-in shimmer types. Key features
  • Six built-in shimmer types for easy integration.
  • Support for custom shimmer types.
  • Shimmer effects from multiple directions.

Charts

• Plot series based on index or value in a category axis - This feature allows users to plot series based on the index or value in a category axis.

Chips

• Chips support for WPF in Xamarin.Forms (preview) - The Chips control support is provided for WPF platform in Xamarin.Forms.

DataGrid

• DataTable binding - This feature allows users to bind the DataTable collection to DataGrid. All data operations (sorting, grouping, filtering, and summaries) are supported, including CRUD operations.
• Load custom view in edit mode - DataGrid allows users to load any custom view to the template column in edit mode. Load edit template in xamarin data grid cells
• Disable selection or navigation to columns - This feature allows you to disable the selection of or navigation to a column. So, interactions or navigation will no longer be recognized and cells in that column will be disabled.
• Rectangular shape of numeric buttons in data pager - Users can give the numeric buttons of a data pager a rectangular shape. rectangle buttons for xamarin page navigation
• Vertical border support for summary rows - This feature allows users to show vertical borders in summary rows (caption, group, and table summaries).

Word Library

• Custom table styles - Word Library now allows creating and applying custom table styles in Microsoft Word documents (DOCX and WordML), and preserving them in DOCX-to-PDF, Word-to-image, and Word-to-HTML conversions.
• Rotation support for shape, text box, image, and group shape - Word Library now allows rotating shapes, text boxes, and group shapes in Word documents and preserving them in DOCX-to-PDF and Word-to-image conversions.
• Watermark preservation support in Word-to-PDF conversion - Word Library now preserves watermark elements in Word-to-PDF conversion.

Image Editor

• Image filter support - The image filter support enables you to apply effects to an image. You can apply the following effects either from the toolbar or code.
  • Hue
  • Saturation
  • Contrast
  • Brightness
  • Sharpen
  • Blur
• Support to add read-only text - This feature allows users to restrict the text pop-up preview window when tapping the text to add read-only text.
• Disable resizing support for text, shapes, and custom views - Provides support to disable the resizing option for text, shapes, and custom views.

Masked Edit

• Support to display password characters with a delay - This feature allows users to display password characters with a specified delay when entering text.

PDF Library

• PDF digital signatures with CAdES - Digitally sign PDF documents with an advanced digital signature standard called CAdES (CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures).
• Validating PDF digital signatures - Validate digital signatures in existing PDF documents.
• Encrypt only file attachments - Encrypt only file attachments in a PDF document.
• Find corrupted PDF documents - Find out whether a PDF document is corrupted or not.

PopupLayout

• Padding - Set padding in the pop-up view. Users can add some padding when showing a pop-up instead of manually setting the height and width based on screen size.
• Animation improvements - Popup’s default animation has been improved. You can feel the difference in animation effects from previous behaviors. Also, an animation easing option has been provided to control animation’s speed.

Button

• Button support for WPF in Xamarin.Forms (preview) - The Button control support is provided for WPF platform in Xamarin.Forms.
• Image position - This feature allows users to align the position of the image at the top and bottom.

CheckBox

• CheckBox support for WPF in Xamarin.Forms (preview) - The CheckBox control support is provided for WPF platform in Xamarin.Forms.

DataForm

• Autocomplete editor - Complete text in a simple way based on the characters the user has entered before. Users can choose or append a suggestion from the drop-down.
• Floating label layout support for DropDown editor - Improved the design of the drop-down editor and integrated it with the Text Input Layout control, which provides floating and assistive labels, and leading and trailing icons.
• Customization
  • Customize the background color of the editor view in floating label layout.
  • Users can hide the helper text in floating label layout.

PDF Viewer

• Single page view - This feature allows users to display one page at a time and supports navigation of pages horizontally.
• Load encrypted PDF document - This feature allows users to load password-protected PDF documents.
• Minimum zoom customization - This feature allows users to customize the minimum zoom value.

RadioButton

• RadioButton support for WPF in Xamarin.Forms (preview) - The RadioButton control support is provided for WPF platform in Xamarin.Forms.

Scheduler

• Support for WPF in Xamarin.Forms (preview) - Support for the WPF platform in the Xamarin.Forms Scheduler control.
• Appointment display mode - Display appointments in the Scheduler’s month view, like in Outlook, to greatly enhance the readability of the content.
• Auto height support for time intervals - Automatically adjust the time interval height based on the available screen space in schedules’ day, week, workweek, and timeline views.

SegmentedControl

• SegmentedControl support for WPF in Xamarin.Forms (preview) - The SegmentedControl control support is provided for WPF platform in Xamarin.Forms.
• Auto scroll support for selected segment items - This feature allows users to scroll to the selected segment item when changing the selected index.

Visual Studio Extensions

• Project template - Quickly create responsive Syncfusion Xamarin applications with Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.
• Create new project - Provides an option to create Syncfusion Xamarin Project Templates in the New Project dialog.
• Syncfusion project configuration - Customize applications with Syncfusion components and project preferences.

Excel Library

• Data import enhancements
  • Import data from a nested collection to Microsoft Excel and group it in a hierarchy.
  • Import column headers when using the ImportOnSave option.
  • Skip a property while importing data from a collection.
• Data export enhancement - Data from Excel can be exported to collection objects so that the values can be used as models. Now, XlsIO allows exporting data to nested classes to visualize data in a relative structure.
• Excel-to-PDF conversion enhancements
  • Unsupported fonts will be substituted by a font stream in Excel-to-PDF conversions.
  • Capture and log warnings intentionally raised in Excel-to-PDF conversions.