Released: Mar 29, 2019

Updates in 2019 Volume 1

Features

Xamarin.Forms

Common

• Dark theme support - You can apply a dark theme to Syncfusion controls using predefined dynamic resource keys.
• Accordion (Preview) - The Accordion control allows content to be organized in a vertically stacked list of items that is collapsible. Each item can also be expanded to reveal the content associated with that item.
• Cards (Preview) - The new Cards control allows you to create a dismissible card, or a stack of cards where one card is visible at a time until you swipe to see the next card.
• Expander (Preview) - The Expander is a layout control that can load any UI view in Header and Content which can be easily expanded or collapsed by tapping on the header and thus saving valuable screen space.
• UI Templates (Preview) - Login screen templates help you to easily reuse the code to add login screens to the Xamarin.Forms applications.

Backdrop

• Icon support - This feature allows users to customize the icons of the navigation header in revealed and closed states separately.

Calendar

• RTL support - Calendar supports right to left (RTL) direction for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian.
• Support to Customize trailing and leading days - The SfCalendar allows you hide the days of the next month and previous month in calendar to enhance the appearance.

Charts

• Fast scatter chart - The new, fast scatter series loads a high number of data points in Xamarin.Forms scatter charts and provides smooth interactions.
• Dashes support in spline chart - The Xamarin.Forms spline chart can be customized with dashes.
• Multiple trackball support - Add multiple trackballs to a single Xamarin.Forms chart and drag them independently to view the information of different data points at the same time.
• Activate the trackball on touch move - Activate the trackball with a touch move instead of a long press in the Xamarin.Forms Charts control.

DataForm

• Masked text editing support - Restrict input to certain types of characters, like text and numbers, by using a mask pattern.
• RTL support - DataForm supports right to left (RTL) direction for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian.
• ScrollTo support - Programmatically scroll to a specific editor.
• Support to collapse group items - Collapse all individual items in a DataForm group item.
• Custom DataFormItems support - Generate your own DataForm items for the business model defined.
• Two-way binding support - With the two-way data binding support when DataForm business object properties are updated, the value will be sync with underlying DataForm editors.
• Custom layout editor - Supports loading of customized editor layout in the DataForm for business models.

DataGrid

• Template support for table summary row - The data grid hosts any view(s) inside a table summary for an entire row or individual columns by loading a template.
• Template selector support for left swipe and right swipe template - The DataTemplateSelector can be directly assigned to the left swipe and right swipe templates.
• Aspect support for Image column - Users can set scaling modes for images in the image column type.
• Event support to notify scroll state - An event support is being introduced to notify scrolling states such as dragging, fling, idle, and programmatic when performing scrolling operation in the datagrid.
• Support to set scrolling position - Users can set a row or column position (start, end, center, or make row/column visible) on datagrid view when performing scrolling operation programmatically.

Word Library

• Word-to-PDF enhancements - Word Library now preserves 2D and 3D charts in a Word document as images while converting Word documents to PDF.
• Chart-to-image conversion - The charts in a Word document can be converted to JPEG or PNG images using the .NET Standard library. All 2D and 3D charts can be converted along with their elements like chart titles, axis titles, data labels, and legends.

ListView

• Auto on scroll support - This feature allows to load an item when users interact with the listview and reach to the end of list.
• Dynamic height support - List view supports to automatically adjust the height at run time when the content of list view item is changed.

Maps

• Sublayer support for imagery layer - This feature supports adding a sublayer over a main imagery layer to draw shapes or routes on maps.

PDF Library

• ZUGFeRD - Create a ZUGFeRD PDF invoice document.
• PDF/A-2b conformance - Create a PDF/A-2b conforming document.
• PDF/A-3b conformance - Create a PDF/A-3b conforming document.
• Get review details from the PDF annotations - Get comment and review details from the PDF annotations.
• Import and export PDF annotations - Import and export PDF annotations as FDF and XFDF.

PopupLayout

• Full screen mode support - Users can show the popup control in full screen mode without specifying the height or width.
• RTL support - PopupLayout control provides RTL support to change the flow of text to a right-to-left orientation.

PowerPoint Library

• Presentation-to-PDF conversion - PowerPoint Library now allows converting PowerPoint presentations containing text, shapes, SmartArt diagrams, charts, tables, and more to PDFs while preserving their formatting.
• Presentation-to-Image conversion - PowerPoint Library now allows converting PowerPoint slides containing text, shapes, SmartArt diagrams, charts, tables, and more to images while preserving their formatting. Slides can be converted to JPEG and PNG formats.

PullToRefresh

• Template support for pulling and refreshing views - Users can host any view(s) for pulling and refreshing operations. So, for any view such as busy indicator, progress bar can be loaded instead of default pulling and refreshing views in the PullToRefresh control.

Text Input Layout

• Font support - This feature allows users to customize the font family, font size, and font attributes for the hint, error, and helper text, as well as the counter label.
• Padding support - This feature allows users to customize the padding around the input view.

TreeMap

• Tooltip support for TreeMap - Tooltip support has been provided for TreeMap to show information about the leaf item when the end user taps on it.
• Data label smart alignment support - This feature smartly aligns data labels within leaf item boundaries and avoids label overlap.

TreeView

• Tree view node animation - The tree view control provides animation support when expand or collapse the tree view node.
• Expander position support - Supports to change the expander icon position at the start or end in the tree view control.
• Check box - The tree view control provides support for adding check box to each tree node and allows users check/uncheck the corresponding node.

Excel Library

• Chart to image conversion - Excel charts can be converted into images in Xamarin applications. All 2D and 3D charts can be converted, along with their elements like chart titles, axis titles, data labels, and legends. The charts can be converted to JPEG and PNG.
• Excel to PDF enhancement - In Excel-to-PDF conversion, all the 2D and 3D charts are preserved in the PDF document.
• Conditional formatting enhancement - Formatting unique and duplicate values in Excel worksheets can be done simply using conditional formats.
• Custom table styles - Excel tables can be customized in different formats to visualize data.
• Excel 2019 compatibility - Support for Microsoft Excel 2019 file format version.

Xamarin.Android

DataGrid

• Event support to notify scroll state - An event support is being introduced to notify scrolling states such as dragging, fling, idle, and programmatic when performing scrolling operation in the datagrid.
• Support to set scrolling position - Users can set a row or column position (start, end, center, or make row/column visible) on datagrid view when performing scrolling operation programmatically.

Word Library

• Word-to-PDF enhancements - Word Library now preserves 2D and 3D charts in a Word document as images while converting Word documents to PDF.
• Chart-to-image conversion - The charts in a Word document can be converted to JPEG or PNG images using the .NET Standard library. All 2D and 3D charts can be converted along with their elements like chart titles, axis titles, data labels, and legends.

Maps

• Sublayer support for imagery layer - This feature supports adding a sublayer over a main imagery layer to draw shapes or routes on maps.
• PDF Library
• ZUGFeRD - Create a ZUGFeRD PDF invoice document.
• PDF/A-2b conformance - Create a PDF/A-2b conforming document.
• PDF/A-3b conformance - Create a PDF/A-3b conforming document.
• Get review details from the PDF annotations - Get comment and review details from the PDF annotations.
• Import and export PDF annotations - Import and export PDF annotations as FDF and XFDF.

PopupLayout

• RTL support - PopupLayout control provides RTL support to change the flow of text to a right-to-left orientation.

PowerPoint Library

• Presentation-to-PDF conversion - PowerPoint Library now allows converting PowerPoint presentations containing text, shapes, SmartArt diagrams, charts, tables, and more to PDFs while preserving their formatting.
• Presentation-to-Image conversion - PowerPoint Library now allows converting PowerPoint slides containing text, shapes, SmartArt diagrams, charts, tables, and more to images while preserving their formatting. Slides can be converted to JPEG and PNG formats.

Calendar

• Support to Customize trailing and leading days - The SfCalendar allows you hide the days of the next month and previous month in calendar to enhance the appearance.

Charts

• Fast scatter chart - The new fast scatter series loads a high number of data points in Xamarin.Android scatter charts and provides smooth interactions.
• Multiple trackball support - Add multiple trackballs to a single Xamarin.Android chart and drag them independently to view the information of different data points at the same time.
• Activate the trackball on touch move - Activate the trackball with a touch move instead of a long press in the Xamarin.Android Charts control.

DataForm

• ScrollTo support - Programmatically scroll to a specific editor.

TreeMap

• Tooltip support for TreeMap - Tooltip support has been provided for the TreeMap control to show information about the leaf item when the end user taps on it.
• Data label smart alignment support - This feature smartly aligns data labels within leaf item boundaries and avoids label overlap.

TreeView

• Tree view node animation - The tree view control provides animation support when expand or collapse the tree view node.
• Expander position support - Supports to change the expander icon position at the start or end in the tree view control.

Excel Library

• Chart to image conversion - Excel charts can be converted into images in Xamarin applications. All 2D and 3D charts can be converted, along with their elements like chart titles, axis titles, data labels, and legends. The charts can be converted to JPEG and PNG.
• Excel to PDF enhancement - In Excel-to-PDF conversion, all the 2D and 3D charts are preserved in the PDF document.
• Conditional formatting enhancement - Formatting unique and duplicate values in Excel worksheets can be done simply using conditional formats.
• Custom table styles - Excel tables can be customized in different formats to visualize data.
• Excel 2019 compatibility - Support for Microsoft Excel 2019 file format version.

Xamarin.iOS

DataGrid

• Event support to notify scroll state - An event support is being introduced to notify scrolling states such as dragging, fling, idle, and programmatic when performing scrolling operation in the datagrid.
• Support to set scrolling position - Users can set a row or column position (start, end, center, or make row/column visible) on datagrid view when performing scrolling operation programmatically.

Word Library

• Word-to-PDF enhancements - Word Library now preserves 2D and 3D charts in a Word document as images while converting Word documents to PDF.
• Chart-to-image conversion - The charts in a Word document can be converted to JPEG or PNG images using the .NET Standard library. All 2D and 3D charts can be converted along with their elements like chart titles, axis titles, data labels, and legends.

Maps

• Sublayer support for imagery layer - This feature supports adding a sublayer over a main imagery layer to draw shapes or routes on maps.

PDF Library

• ZUGFeRD - Create a ZUGFeRD PDF invoice document.
• PDF/A-2b conformance - Create a PDF/A-2b conforming document.
• PDF/A-3b conformance - Create a PDF/A-3b conforming document.
• Get review details from the PDF annotations - Get comment and review details from the PDF annotations.
• Import and export PDF annotations - Import and export PDF annotations as FDF and XFDF.

PopupLayout

• RTL support - PopupLayout control provides RTL support to change the flow of text to a right-to-left orientation.

PowerPoint Library

• Presentation-to-PDF conversion - PowerPoint Library now allows converting PowerPoint presentations containing text, shapes, SmartArt diagrams, charts, tables, and more to PDFs while preserving their formatting.
• Presentation-to-Image conversion - PowerPoint Library now allows converting PowerPoint slides containing text, shapes, SmartArt diagrams, charts, tables, and more to images while preserving their formatting. Slides can be converted to JPEG and PNG formats.

Calendar

• Support to Customize trailing and leading days - The SfCalendar allows you hide the days of the next month and previous month in calendar to enhance the appearance.

Charts

• Fast scatter chart - The new fast scatter series loads a high number of data points in Xamarin.iOS scatter charts and provides smooth interactions.
• Multiple trackball support - Add multiple trackballs to a single Xamarin.iOS chart and drag them independently to view the information of different data points at the same time.
• Activate the trackball on touch move - Activate the trackball with a touch move instead of a long press in the Xamarin.iOS Charts control.

DataForm

• ScrollTo support - Programmatically scroll to a specific editor.
• TreeMap
• Tooltip support for TreeMap - Tooltip support has been provided for TreeMap to show information about the leaf item when the end user taps on it.
• Data label smart alignment support - This feature smartly aligns data labels within leaf item boundaries and avoids label overlap.

TreeView

• Tree view node animation - The tree view control provides animation support when expand or collapse the tree view node.
• Expander position support - Supports to change the expander icon position at the start or end in the tree view control.

Excel Library

• Chart to image conversion - Excel charts can be converted into images in Xamarin applications. All 2D and 3D charts can be converted, along with their elements like chart titles, axis titles, data labels, and legends. The charts can be converted to JPEG and PNG.
• Excel to PDF enhancement - In Excel-to-PDF conversion, all the 2D and 3D charts are preserved in the PDF document.
• Conditional formatting enhancement - Formatting unique and duplicate values in Excel worksheets can be done simply using conditional formats.
• Custom table styles - Excel tables can be customized in different formats to visualize data.
• Excel 2019 compatibility - Support for Microsoft Excel 2019 file format version.