Volume 4 delivers exciting new controls for your cross-platform mobile projects, including Chat, DatePicker, and TimePicker controls, plus new stacked line and 100% stacked line chart types in the Charts control.
The Chat control for Xamarin.Forms provides a modern conversational chatbot experience. It is a flexible control that shows a conversation between two or more users in a fully customizable layout.
Message types: Built-in support for various message types such as text, calendar, date picker, time picker, and hyperlink.
Message input area: Send messages to users by interacting with the built-in editor and the button at the bottom of the chat control.
Time break: Shows chat messages in groups based on the date and time the messages were created.
Typing indicator: Indicates the users who are currently typing.
The Date Picker control for Xamarin.Forms lets users quickly select a date and specify minimum and maximum dates to restrict date selection.
Displays different date formats.
Supports customizing header text, column header text, and background color.
Supports minimum date and maximum date restrictions.
Supports standalone and dialog modes.
The touch-friendly Time Picker control for Xamarin.Forms lets users quickly select a time.
Displays different time formats.
Supports customizing header text, column header text, and background color.
Supports standalone and dialog modes.
The new stacked line and stacked line 100 series in Xamarin.Forms Charts allow users to visualize the different series stacked together to show a cumulative value.
This feature allows users to set a dashed line for line series.
This feature allows users to bind the DataTable collection to the chart series.
This feature allows users to customize the size and opacity value of the Load More view.
Word Library now allows creating and editing mathematical equations (MathML) in Word documents (DOCX and WordML).
Word Library now automatically adjusts table cell size based on its content.
This feature allows users to disable scrolling in ListView and render full-height content.
This feature provides command support for the SelectionChanged event in ListView.
This feature allows users to render polyline, polygon and point shapes on maps using a collection of points.
This feature allows users to downloading tiles asynchronously by using RequestTileUri event.
These features allow users to control the appearance of the keyboard’s Return button and execute a command when they press it.
This feature is used to control whether a masked entry displays a clear button that allows the user to clear the text.
Support provided to create PDF/A conformance documents. Using this library, the following types of conformance documents can be created.
Improved the PDF digital signature validation algorithm to identify Incremental saving attacks (ISA).
Support provided to remove duplicate PDF resources such as image and fonts when merging PDF documents.
This feature allows you to digitally sign a PDF document externally with LTV.
Support provided to create ZUGFeRD 2.0 PDF documents.
Support for a discrete timeline view for each resource has been provided to enhance the viewability of appointments.
We have added UWP support for the Effects View control.
These features allow users to control the appearance of the keyboard’s Return button and execute a command when they press it.
This feature allows users to print PDF documents.
This feature allows users to import and export PDF annotations in FDF and XFDF formats.
This feature allows users to provide a placeholder for the Rich Text Editor.
The Rich Text Editor control provides support to change the flow of the UI from right to left based on the culture of the device.
This feature allows users to programmatically focus and unfocus the Rich Text Editor control in Xamarin.Forms for Android and UWP platforms.
This feature allows undo and redo operations in the Rich Text Editor for Xamarin.Forms UWP.
This feature allows users to restrict editing in Rich Text Editor.
This feature allows you to insert, edit, browse, and remove hyperlinks in the Rich Text Editor.
We have added UWP support for the Shimmer control.
The StepProgressBar control provides support to change the flow of the UI from right to left based on the culture of the device.
Support added for input views such as a picker, date picker, and time picker in Android and iOS.
A macro is a set of programming codes that runs in the Excel environment to automate tasks. XlsIO allows you to create and edit macros in Excel worksheets using IVbaProject and save the worksheets in different formats such as XLS, XLTM, and XLSM.
Conditional formatting now allows you to highlight the following:
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