What's New in Essential Studio for Xamarin.Android

Charts

ErrorBar chart

The new ErrorBarSeries in Xamarin.Android allows users to visualize the variability of data and indicates the errors or uncertainty in the reported values.

BoxAndWhisker chart

The new BoxAndWhiskerSeries in Xamarin.Android depicts groups of numerical data through their quartiles. The lines in the chart represent variability outside the upper and lower quartiles.

Word Library

Table of contents

Allows updating the table of contents in a Word document.

Security

Encrypt a Word document with a password and open an encrypted Word document with the valid password.

SEQ fields

Word Library now allows updating SEQ (sequence) fields in a Word document.

Track changes enhancements

Word Library now provides the following features in tracked changes preservation:

• Move-to and move-from revisions are preserved in Word documents (DOCX and WordML).
• Move-to and move-from revisions can be accepted and rejected.
• Style and section property tracked changes are preserved in Word documents.
• All tracked revisions in a Word document can be accessed through an API.

FirstColumn and LastColumn in bookmarks

Word Library now provides FirstColumn and LastColumn APIs to define the column range for bookmarks inside tables in Word documents.

Mathematical equations in Word-to-PDF conversion

Word Library now preserves mathematical equations (MathML) when converting Word documents (DOCX and WordML) to PDF.

Maps

Marker virtualization

This feature allows users to virtualize a large number of markers when zooming and panning maps.

PDF Library

Redact annotation

Mark the words or areas to be redacted with the Redact Annotation.

Cloud style annotation

Create a shape annotation with the cloud style.

PowerPoint Library

Extract OLE object

PowerPoint Library now allows extracting embedded OLE objects from a PowerPoint presentation.

PDF Viewer

Asynchronous PDF loading and cancellation

This feature allows users to load PDF files asynchronously and cancel the loading operation while it is in progress.

Customize the position of handwritten signatures

This feature allows users to customize the position of handwritten signatures when the “Done” button on the built-in signature pad is tapped.

Disable annotation interaction

This feature allows users to disable selecting, moving, and resizing annotations.

Tiled rendering

This feature allows users to render the PDF pages using the tiled layer approach to reduce memory consumption.

Excel Library

Export Excel data to JSON files

Essential XlsIO supports converting Excel data to JSON files by simply saving the workbook using the SaveAsJson method. This support includes the features to save,  

• a workbook as a simple JSON file or a JSON file with XML schema
• a workbook to JSON
• a worksheet to JSON
• a range to JSON
• a stream with the above features

Export Excel notes to PDF

Essential XlsIO provides support to export Excel notes to a PDF document that will be displayed similar to the worksheet cells or at the end of the worksheet.