Telerik blogs

Better Mobile Support

Adaptive RadEditor for SmartphonesRich text editing in mobile browsers will never be easier. A new Adaptive RadEditor rendering will offer first-class experience and usability on mobile devices. We will first deliver optimized rendering and interactions for phones in Q2 and expand the support for tablets toward Q3 2015.

What should you expect among the mobile optimizations:

  • UI inspired by the most popular rich text mobile editors on the market
  • Entirely optimized user interface: easy-to-touch bottom-placed toolbar with bigger buttons
  • Touch-friendly dropdowns and dialogs that always pop up and fit in the visible viewport of your smartphone

  
  
Adaptive Image GalleryAdaptive Image Gallery will let you build galleries that end-users will fully enjoy when loaded in a mobile browser. When accessed via a mobile device, the control will deliver mobile-friendly user interface and support for the most popular gestures (spread and pinch, tap and swipe). The image gallery will offer three operation modes: Default, Image Slider and Thumbnails Area, including the convenient full-screen mode.

The UI will be reworked to be touch-friendlier and easy to navigate.

 
Lightweight Rendering

Reduced markup, semаntic rendering and easy-to-customize UI are among the crucial benefits of lightweight rendering, which will enable better performance and responsiveness to your apps. TabStrip, ProgressArea, Notification, RibbonBar, Scheduler, ToolBar, SkinManager and InputManager will get a new lightweight rendering based on HTML5 and CSS3.

It will be as easy as setting RenderMode="Lightweight" to turn on the lightweight rendering mode of those controls.

New Theme Builder Application

Create and customize skins to be compatible with lightweight and mobile (adaptive) rendering.Make default Bootstrap components blend with AJAX controls. Import any Bootstrap theme and apply the color scheme to AJAX controls’ Bootstrap skin.

Оther Important Improvements

We continue to invest heavily in improving and optimizing our controls further, and while there are plenty of improvements happening in Q2, some worth mentioning are:

  • RadEditor: Redesign of the Table Wizard dialog
  • RadDiagram: Rich-text content, UX improvements in shape- connections, improved DataBinding and more;
  • RadFileExplorer: New content providers, easier configuration in Visual Studio and drag-and-drop upload over the file list area
  • RadHtmlChart & RadGrid: Long-anticipated features are coming for both controls, too
We are welcoming anyone who wants to have an early preview of the new features. If you are interested, just drop me a line at rumen.jekov@telerik.com, and I will follow up with more details on availability of the early bits.

Please note that we are extremely agile and try to adapt to any important changes and shifts on the market. While we stay committed to our plan, adjustments and changes might occur.


Rumen-Jekov
About the Author

Rumen Jekov

Rumen Jekov (@Rumen_Jekov) started his career at Telerik’s ASP.NET team in 2004 as a tech support engineer and passed through the position of a team lead to a product manager. He has answered more than 51,500 tickets helping customers to achieve their goals. Presently, he is a product owner of Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX and a manager of the AJAX crew at Progress. Off work, he enjoys traveling across the globe, watching movies and tech shows, reading books and listening to podcasts.

Related Posts

Comments

Comments are disabled in preview mode.