Road Map for Essential Studio for Xamarin.Forms

New components

We are planning to add the following new components:

• Date Picker: Allows you to pick a date within a range.
• Time Picker: Allows you to pick a time in either 12-hour or 24-hour format.
• Chat: Provides users a modern conversational chatbot experience to display a conversation between two or more users in a fully customizable layout.

Chart

Stacked line and 100% stacked line charts

The new stacked line and 100% stacked line series in Xamarin.Forms Charts allow users to visualize the different series stacked together to show a cumulative value.

DataTable binding

This feature allows users to bind the DataTable collection to the chart series.

Dashes support for line series

This feature allows users to set a dashed line for line series.

DataGrid

Xamarin.Forms for WPF

This feature provides WPF platform support for the DataGrid component.

Load more view customization

This features allows users to customize the size and opacity value of the load more view.

Pull to Refresh

Material UI improvement

This features allows users to show the Pull to Refresh control in the Material UI.

ListView

Disable scrolling

This feature allows users to disable scrolling in ListView and render full-height content.

SelectionChanged command

This feature provides command support for the SelectionChanged event in ListView.

Item reordering in Xamarin.Forms WPF

This feature provides item reordering support for the Xamarin.Forms WPF ListView component.

Swiping in Xamarin.Forms WPF

This feature provides swiping support in the Xamarin.Forms WPF ListView component.

TreeView

Loading the custom views in Unbound Mode

This feature allows users to load custom views in Unbound Mode.

Loading the custom views in unbound mode

This feature allows users to load custom views in unbound mode.

Accordion

Dynamic size support

This feature provides dynamic size support to update an accordion’s height based on the content’s size changes.

PDF Viewer

Printing support

This feature allows users to print PDF documents.

Import and export annotations

This feature allows users to import and export PDF annotations in FDF and XFDF formats.

RichTextEditor

RTL support

This feature allows the Rich Text Editor to flow in the right-to-left direction.

Undo and redo support for UWP

The feature manages the undo action history to store users’ editing actions, and also to customize the undo steps.

Placeholder support

This feature allows users to add semantic meaning to text by inserting custom tags that can be used as placeholders for dynamic content.

Hyperlink support

This feature allows users to insert or change hyperlinks with customization options such as display text, tooltip, and link to be opened in a new window.

AutoSize support

This feature will change size to accommodate input as the user enters it.

Shimmer

UWP support

This feature provides Xamarin.Forms UWP support for the Shimmer component.

Schedule

Resource view on the left side of timeline view

This feature allows users to set the resource view on the left side of the timeline view for better task scheduling of the available resources.

StepProgressBar

RTL support

This feature allows the StepProgressBar to flow in the right-to-left direction.

Effects View

UWP support

This feature provides Xamarin.Forms UWP support for the Effects View component.

Text Input Layout

A feature that provides support for the Xamarin.Forms Picker, Date Picker, and Time Picker components as input views for the Text Input Layout component.

Maps

Render polylines from a collection of points

This feature allows users to render polyline shapes on maps using a collection of points.

Masked Edit

ReturnType and ReturnCommand support

These features allow users to control the appearance of the keyboard return button and execute command when users press the return key button.

Word Library

MathML

This feature allows users to create and edit MathML (equations) in Word documents (DOCX and WordML).

Table auto fit to contents

This feature allows users to automatically adjust a table cell’s size based on its content.

PowerPoint Library

Header and footer

This feature allows users to add and edit headers and footers in PowerPoint presentations.

PDF Library

Metadata support for images in PDF

This feature allows users to draw images with metadata in PDF documents.

PDF A conformance

This feature allows users to create PDF documents with PDFA1A, PDFA2A, PDF A2U, PDFA3A, and PDFA3U.

ZUGFeRD 2.0

This feature allows users to create PDF invoices with ZUGFeRD 2.0.

Merge accessible PDF documents

This feature allows users to merge PDF documents with tags.

Excel Library

Macros

This feature allows users to create, read, and edit VBA in Excel files.

Conditional formatting enhancement

This feature allows users to use top/bottom rules in conditional formatting.