Adds new features and enhancements to the control suite, plus a new dashboard sample and project templates.
Features
- New Dashboard Demo
- An all-new mobile version of the dashboard sample app, displays sales and profit comparison, goals, top products, and customers.
- Features many of the controls, including FlexChart, FlexPie, FlexGrid, BulletGraph, and CollectionView.
- Demonstrates using the controls within more complicated multi-page arrangements, including master detail, carousel, and tabbed pages.
- Displays many of the new control animations.
- FlexChart
- Added pan and zoom to FlexPie and Sunburst charts making dense datasets easier to visualize, improving interaction with both chart types and providing an even better experience on mobile.
- Added new properties to the Axis object of a traditional FlexChart including Scale and DisplayedRange.
- Animations - Added animations for FlexChart and FlexPie, these animations are available for loading and updating data in these chart types, as well as selection for FlexPie.
- FlexGrid
- Added Column/Row Dragging Reordering - One of the most requested features for FlexGrid was the ability drag to reorder rows and columns. This is now available by setting the AllowDragging property.
- Resizing columns and rows should also feel better in this release, as most of the gesture and touch interactions have been overhauled.
- New animations accompany reordering your data.
- Deletion is now based on selection, rather than current cell. Changing the SelectionMode has an impact on what is deleted. Cell-based Selection simply deletes the content of the cell without modifying the CollectionView, though Row-based selection have the rows deleted in both the FlexGrid and CollectionView.
- Gauge
- Added the ability to use dragging interactions with gauge controls (Linear Gauge, Radial Gauge, and Bullet Graph) rather than just taps.
- Improvements to Input controls
- Added animations for all the DropDown derived controls.
- Added basic keyboard handling to the controls, so for UWP users and mobile users with a keyboard you should now be able to navigate through the list of items available in a DropDown using the arrow keys, use Enter to begin and end editing, and use the tab key to navigate through tab stops on UWP.
- Added new properties for customizing the fonts in AutoComplete and ComboBox. There are now FontAttributes, FontSize, and FontFamily properties for configuring these controls.
- New Project Templates
- Added a new .NET Standard project template for Visual Studio 2017.
- Modernize your Xamarin.Forms projects as the .NET platform continues to evolve.
- Templates should now automatically open up the GrapeCity license manager add in (on platforms that support it) to make licensing your projects more straightforward.