Road Map for Essential Studio for Xamarin.Forms

Common

• Predefined and extendable theming support to easily customize Syncfusion UI controls to match your application theme.
• Beautifully designed, ready-made UI templates for Xamarin.Forms applications with full customization capabilities.

New Components

We are planning to add the following new components to Xamarin:

• Accordion
• Backdrop
• BadgeView
• Border
• Button
• Chips
• Cards
• Timeline

DataGrid

RTL support

This feature supports a right-to-left flow direction in DataGrid.

Unbound rows

Unbound rows allow users to add a row that cannot be bound to an underlying collection. To show custom information in the grid rows, unbound rows can be used.

PopupLayout

RTL support

This feature supports right-to-left flow direction in a pop-up.

Essential DocIO

Word-to-PDF enhancements

• This feature allows users to preserve tracked changes from a Word document in the converted PDF.
• This feature allows users to hyphenate text automatically while converting a Word document to PDF.

Update Auto-Number field

This feature supports updating the Auto-Number field in a Word document.

Essential PDF

Open Type Font support

• This feature allows users to draw text with OTF in a PDF document.

Essential XlsIO

Excel to PDF

This feature allows users to convert Excel files into PDFs.

Chart

Series selection support

This feature allows users to highlight an entire series by touching anywhere on the series.

Custom axis

This feature allows users to add an axis to the chart without mapping it to any series. It is typically used to duplicate a Y axis and display it on the opposite side of the Y axis. The axis can always be kept in the UI even though the respective series is removed or added at runtime.

Straight line support in data marker connector

This feature allows users to change the connector of a data marker to a horizontal line in circular charts. At present, the connector line of a data marker is rendered based on the angle of the respective segment.

Plot range column chart type with single Y value

A typical range column chart requires two values, such as high and low, but this feature allows users to plot the range column chart with a single Y value. This is possible when the Y value is considered the delta value for a range column chart and the segments are arranged at the center of the chart area.

Kanban

DataTemplateSelector support for card template

This feature allows users to customize the data template of cards based on DataTemplateSelector.

RTL support

This feature allows users to change the left-to-right alignment of the Kanban Board to right-to-left (RTL).

Text Input Layout

Container customization

The None container type can be used in addition to the Filled and Outlined types, where the hint and input view will positioned compactly without any background decorations for the container.

RTL support

This feature allows users to change the left-to-right alignment of the text input layout control to right-to-left (RTL).

Essential Presentation

Draw a connector between shapes

This feature supports creating, editing, and removing connectors in the PowerPoint shapes.

PDF Viewer

Form fill and sign

• This feature supports filling in data in the forms present in a PDF file for saving and sharing.
• The signing feature allows you to include handwritten signatures in PDF files.
• This feature allows you to import and export data to fill in a form and extract the filled data from the form in a PDF file.

Maps

Tooltip support

This feature allows users to display map information when tapping shapes, bubbles, and markers.

Load shape files from local path

This feature allows users to load shape files into maps from a device location.

ListView

RTL support

This feature supports right-to-left flow direction in the ListView control.

Pushing sticky group header

This feature supports pushing the sticky group header when another group header leads.

TreeView

RTL support

This feature supports right-to-left flow direction in the TreeView control.

On-demand loading support

This feature allows users to add nodes on demand in the TreeView control.

Animation support

This feature allows users to expand nodes and selection animation.

Schedule

RTL support

This feature supports right-to-left flow direction in the Schedule control.

Data Form

Change multiline text editor height

This feature allows the text editor height to be increased and decreased based on user input to improve readability in a multiline text editor.

Customize validation message

This feature allows users to customize validation messages.

MaskedEdit editor

This feature supports the MaskedEdit editor control displaying data in a specific format.

Calendar

Inline and agenda view customization

This feature allows users to customize inline and agenda view events through a template and template selector.

Image Editor

Image quality improvement

This improvement allows users to save an image without losing its original quality.

Diagram

Customizing annotation position

This feature allows users to customize an annotation’s position in a node or connector.

Autoscroll

This feature allows users to scroll the diagram area automatically when a node or connector is moved to a certain margin region of a diagram area.

Virtualization

This feature allows users to render a large number of nodes and connectors in a diagram for effective performance.