Released: Jan 15, 2016

Updates in this release

Updates in 2015 Volume 4

• Calendar Control - The calendar widget provides a multiview display that allows users to select one or more dates within specified ranges. It also provides a gesture-friendly UI for navigating, adding events, and more.
• Chart Control
• • Tooltips - The chart control supports tooltips to display information over a chart.
  • Logarithmic Axis - Large amounts of data can be visualized in a logarithmic scale.
  • Vertical Chart - The chart control supports orienting a chart vertically, providing a different perspective on data.
  • Smart Labels - Overlapping labels can be realigned with respect to available space in a circular series, such as pie and doughnut charts.
  • Stepline Series - The chart control supports a stepline series, which is similar to a line series except that the points are connected by horizontal and vertical lines to form a step-like progress.
  • Explode on Touch - Selected segments in the chart control can be highlighted by exploding them. This is applicable for pie, doughnut, pyramid, and funnel series.
• Data Grid Control
• • Loading More Items - The data grid control supports loading a subset of data to its data source in the runtime when selecting the Load More view. It also allows you to customize the Load More Items option and position it to the top or bottom of the control.
  • Pull to Refresh - The data grid control supports refreshing the data source in the runtime when performing a “pull to refresh” action. This view can be customized.
  • Paging - The data grid control provides built-in options to page data on demand when dealing with large volumes of data.
• Date-Time Range Navigator
• • The date-time range navigator control is a time-bound data visualization control used to filter a particular range of data from a larger range. Its rich feature set includes auto-interval calculation, tooltips, interactive range selection, smart labels, and more.
• Rating Control
• • The rating control displays a group of stars for users to indicate a rating with flexible precision. It also supports customization for its item size, item spacing, and the number of displayed item
• Schedule Control - The schedule control for Xamarin is a powerful scheduler with a UI similar to the built-in Google calendar. It provides common scheduling functionalities to create and manage appointments. It also uses a gesture-friendly UI to perform common operations like selection, navigation, and more. Scheduled appointments can be viewed in different layouts, including Day, Week, Work Week, and Month views.
  • Views - The schedule control features four built-in views for displaying appointments: Day, Week, Work Week, and Month.
  • Recurrence - Recurring appointments can be created with daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly recurrence patterns supported by the iCal standard.
  • Localization - The schedule control’s UI can be changed to accommodate different cultures as needed. It also has built-in culture support for basic items, such as day and month text representations.