Syncfusion Essential Studio for Xamarin 2019 Volume 2

Xamarin.Forms

Switch (Preview)

• The Switch control allows you to turn an item on and off, and provides an optional indeterminate state. It supports VSM, busy state, and gradient colors. Key features
  • Visual types: Supports built-in visual types such as Material, Cupertino, and Fluent.
  • Indeterminate state: Supports an additional state called indeterminate state.
  • Visual State Manager: Support to customize the switch’s thumb and track based on switch states.
  • Orientation: Supports vertical orientation.
  • Gradient: Support to customize its background with gradients.
  • RTL support: Supports right-to-left(RTL) direction.

StepProgressBar (Preview)

• The Xamarin StepProgressBar is a control that indicates the progress of a multiple step (state) process, such as new user registration or package status tracking. You can customize its appearance by changing the step shape, step content, progress bar color, and more. Key features
  • Display the progress in horizontal or vertical orientation.
  • Provides three-state progress indication: Not Started, In Progress, and Completed.
  • Customize the shape of the state or step as a circle or a square.
  • Add descriptions to each state on both sides.
  • Customize the step content with numbers, ticks, crosses, dots, or images.
  • Allows initializing the state and progress value.

Accordion

• Themes support - Themes support has been provided to load the Accordion with light and dark themes.
• Bindable Layout support - Bindable layout support allows the Accordion to generate its content by binding it to a collection of items.
• Visual State Manager (VSM) support - The Accordion appearance can now be customized based on the expand and collapse visual states of AccordionItem.

Button

• Gradient background - This feature allows users to set gradient colors as a button’s background.
• Accessibility - The Button control has accessibility support for Android and iOS.

Calendar

• Week view - Support to display one or more weeks in the month view which saves more screen space to achieve modern UI of mobile applications. It allows users to select single, multiple, and range of dates and displays the events associated with the selected date in agenda view.
• Century and Decade views - Displays century and decade view which allows users to easily select and navigate between month, year, decade, and century views.

Charts

• Charts support for WPF in Xamarin.Forms (preview) - Charts control support is provided for the WPF platform in Xamarin.Forms.
• Directional zooming - This feature allows users to zoom charts based on pinch gesture direction.
• Waterfall chart - The new waterfall series in Xamarin.Forms Charts allows users to visualize sequentially introduced positive and negative values.
• Customize individual axis element appearance - This feature allows users to customize the appearance of individual axis elements in Xamarin.Forms Charts.

CheckBox

• Accessibility - The CheckBox control has accessibility support for Android and iOS.

Chips

• Accessibility - The Chips control has accessibility support for Android and iOS.

DataForm

• Modernized DataForm - Improved design of DataForm editors integrated with TextInputLayout, which provides floating and assistive labels, leading and trailing icons, and password toggle icon to show or hide password. Support provided to choose either filled or outlined container for DataForm editors based on the necessity and appearance of the application.

DataGrid

• Stacked headers support - Users can add multilevel column headers (unbound header rows) that span across multiple columns. So, columns in DataGrid can be grouped under common column headers.
• New combobox column type - A combobox column type allows you to easily choose an item from a list of items. It also provides autocomplete support to easily search and select an item in a drop-down.
• Autogenerate support for complex properties - DataGrid lets you automatically generate columns for complex properties (custom type properties). So users can set a data grid to auto-generate the parent property, inner properties, or both properties for the complex property type.
• Support to disable diagonal scrolling - Disable diagonal scrolling in DataGrid. DataGrid can scroll vertically or horizontally based on how the user is panning.
• ItemsSource selector support for picker column type - Users can select a different ItemsSource of each row.

Excel Library

• Excel chart enhancements - Certain Excel charts support drop lines to help viewers determine a data point’s value on the horizontal axis.
• Trace precedents and dependents enhancements - Cells with formulas referring to other cells can be retrieved by the GetDirectPrecedents() and GetDirectDependents() methods.

Expander

• Themes support - Themes support has been provided to load the Expander with light and dark themes.

Image Editor

• Dark theme support - You can apply a dark theme to the Image Editor control using predefined dynamic resource keys.

ListView

• Right-to-left support for horizontal orientation - ListView now supports right-to-left flow direction for all orientations and layouts.
• Sticky footer position support - The footer view can be positioned right below its content instead of at the bottom of the ListView when it has less content by using the StickyFooterPosition property.

Maps

• Polyline and point shape support - Users can render polylines and point shapes to show river views and road views on maps.
• Marker alignment support - Align map markers to vertical and horizontal positions such as start, center, and end.

PDF Library

• Add comments and reviews to the PDF annotation - Set or change PDF annotation review statuses and make comments.
• PDF 2.0 version support - Create a 2.0 version of PDF.

PDF Viewer

• Accessibility support - This feature allows visually impaired users to efficiently interact with the PDF Viewer control.
• Custom stamp annotation - Custom stamp annotation allows users to include any form of Xamarin.Forms widget like Button, Entry, Label, and Image anywhere in the pages of the PDF Viewer. You can perform operations like add, move, resize, and delete on custom stamp annotations. Also, you can save and load the existing custom stamp annotations associated with the PDF document in the PDF Viewer control.
• Search enhancements - The PDF Viewer control helps users find specific text within a PDF file more quickly. Now, users can find the total number of occurrences of the searched text and its current instance, too.

PopupLayout

• Autosize support - This feature allows users to autosize a pop-up control’s height and width based on its content template. So, now you don’t have to specify width and height for a pop-up. Support to customize overlay background PopupLayout allows users to customize the background color and opacity, and always show the overlay in spite of setting the width and height of a pop-up.

PowerPoint Library

• Write protection - PowerPoint library now allows enabling write protection for PowerPoint presentations.

Radio Button

• Group Key - This feature allows users to group a set of radio buttons inside any layout.
• Accessibility - The Radio Button control has accessibility support for Android and iOS.

Schedule

• Timeline view - Timeline view displays the dates in horizontal time axis with the desired day`s count. Each view displays events accurately across the time slots with an intuitive drag-and-drop feature. Provides support to highlight selected time intervals of time slots and handle interaction.
• Resource view - Resource view displays the resources as discrete view integrated with the scheduler to display appointments in all types of schedule views. It allows users to select single or multiple resources to filter and displays the events associated with the selected resources for efficient and effective utilization.

Text Input Layout

• Autocomplete and Combo box support - This feature allows users to set Autocomplete or Combo box as input view for the TextInputLayout control.
• Outline corner radius support - This feature allows users to customize outlined containers with rounded edges.
• Container background color support - This features allows users to customize the background color for outlined containers.

TreeMap

• Drill-down support - This feature provides a drill-down option to visualize large sets of data in a minimal data view.

TreeView

• Node height support - Support to automatically set the height of a node based on its content. Also allows users to specify the height for each node or level.

Word Library

• Mail merge enhancements - Word library now provides the following features in mail merge:
  • Event to customize clearing unmerged fields during mail merge.
  • Event to customize removing unmerged groups during mail merge.
  • Option to access the new instance (WPicture or WTextRange) replaced during mail merge.
  • Execute mail merge using ADO.NET objects.
• Group shape in DOCX and DOCX-to-PDF conversion - Word library now allows creating group shapes in Word documents (DOCX) and preserving them in DOCX-to-PDF conversion.
• RTL text rendering in Word-to-PDF conversion - Right-to-left (RTL) text rendering in Word-to-PDF conversion has been improved.

Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android

Charts

• Waterfall chart - The new waterfall series in Xamarin.iOS Charts allows users to visualize a sequence of positive and negative values.
• Customize individual axis element appearance - This feature allows users to customize the appearance of individual axis elements in Xamarin.iOS Charts.

DataGrid

• Right-to-left support - DataGrid supports right-to-left (RTL) arrangement for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian.
• Unbound row support - Add additional rows at the top and bottom of the DataGrid that are not bound with data objects from the underlying data source.

Word Library

• Mail merge enhancements - Word library now provides the following features in mail merge:
  • Event to customize clearing unmerged fields during mail merge.
  • Event to customize removing unmerged groups during mail merge.
  • Option to access the new instance (WPicture or WTextRange) replaced during mail merge.
  • Execute mail merge using ADO.NET objects.
• Group shape in DOCX and DOCX-to-PDF conversion - Word library now allows creating group shapes in Word documents (DOCX) and preserving them in DOCX-to-PDF conversion.
• RTL text rendering in Word-to-PDF conversion - Right-to-left (RTL) text rendering in Word-to-PDF conversion has been improved.

Maps

• Polyline and point shape support - Users can render polylines and point shapes to show river views and road views on maps.
• Marker alignment support - Align map markers to vertical and horizontal positions such as start, center, and end.

PDF Library

• Add comments and reviews to the PDF annotation - Set or change PDF annotation review statuses and make comments.
• PDF 2.0 version support - Create a 2.0 version of PDF.

PowerPoint Library

• Write protection - PowerPoint library now allows enabling write protection for PowerPoint presentations.

PDF Viewer

• Accessibility support - This feature allows visually impaired users to efficiently interact with the PDF Viewer control.
• Custom stamp annotation - Custom stamp annotation allows users to include any form of Xamarin.iOS UI widget like UIButton, UITextField, UITextView, and UIImageView anywhere in the pages of the PDF Viewer. You can perform operations like add, move, resize, and delete on custom stamp annotations. Also, you can save and load the existing custom stamp annotations associated with the PDF document in the PDF Viewer control.
• Search enhancements - The PDF Viewer control helps users find specific text within a PDF file more quickly. Now, users can find the total number of occurrences of the searched text and its current instance, too.

TreeMap

• Drill-down support - This feature provides a drill-down option to visualize large sets of data in a minimal data view.

Excel Library

• Excel chart enhancements - Certain Excel charts support drop lines to help viewers determine a data point’s value on the horizontal axis.
• Trace precedents and dependents enhancements - Cells with formulas referring to other cells can be retrieved by the GetDirectPrecedents() and GetDirectDependents() methods.