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Feature comparison between Calendar and Schedule control in Xamarin.Forms.

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SfCalendar:  


Xamarin.Forms Calendar provides the multi-view representation to display and select one or more dates within specified ranges. It can be used in various scenarios like ticket booking, events notifying, display working days.

 

Month View

 

Month view of Calendar Xamarin

 

 

Year View

 

Year view of Calendar Xamarin

 

SfSchedule:

 

Schedule provides all the common scheduling functionalities to create and manage appointments. Schedule control is a perfect solution for developers looking to add advanced, feature rich Schedule to their applications.

 

Day View

 

Day view in scheduler

 

Week View

 

Week view in scheduler

 

Work Week View

 

Workweek view in scheduler

 

Moth View

 

Month view in scheduler

 

Feature Comparison:

 

No.

Features

SfCalendar

SfSchedule

  1.  

Views

MonthView

YearView

DayView

WeekView

WorkView

MonthView

  1.  

Date Selection

Single

Multiple

Range

Multi-Range

Single

  1.  

BlackoutDates

Yes

Yes

  1.  

First Day of Week

Yes

Yes

  1.  

Adding the appointments

Yes

Yes

  1.  

Restricting Past dates.

Yes

No

  1.  

Localization

Yes

Yes

  1.  

Show Appointments

Yes

Yes

  1.  

Move to Specific Date

Yes

Yes

  1.  

Navigation of month Programmatically

Yes

Yes

  1.  

Min Max dates

Yes

Yes

  1.  

Inline/ Agenda view

Yes

Yes

  1.  

Header Customization

Yes

yes

  1.  

Appointment Editor for adding or editing new appointments

No

Yes

  1.  

Custom Appointment support

No

Yes

  1.  

Week number support in MonthView

No

Yes

  1.  

Recurrence appointments

No

Yes






 

Feature tour and User guide Link:

 

Calendar


Feature tour: https://www.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ui-controls/xamarin-calendar
User guide: https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin/calendar/getting-started

 

Schedule:

 

Feature tour: https://www.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ui-controls/xamarin-scheduler
User guide: https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin/scheduler/getting-started


Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about feature comparison between Calendar and Schedule control in Xamarin.Forms.


You can refer to our Xamarin.Forms Calendar feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our Xamarin.Forms Calendar example to understand how to create and manipulate data.


For current customers, you can check out our components from the License and Downloads page. If you are new to Syncfusion, you can try our 30-day free trial to check out our other controls.

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