DROID support pre v3 and DataViz Graphics

[Josh]

Currently I am evaluating the kendo MOBILE library in conjuction with the DataViz library and I find the work great btw!  My issues mainly come from testing on my internal DROID devices.

Spoofing DROID through web browsers is find but actually testing on a DROID device pre v3 of the Android OS becomes problematic as it does not seem to support SVG or VGL.

I noticed that on the web site decribing DataViz that Android is supported: Android (via Opera and the Android browser v3+) 

Are you saying that a best practice work around for older droid devices (can ice cream sandwich come quick enough?) that we should use Opera Mobi? or maybe Opera Mini?

[Kamen Bundev]

Hello Josh,

When making Android 2.x releases Google decided that SVG support is too big and too heavy to include it in the default WebKit browser (or any other browser based on that WebKit), so there's no direct way to support Android 2.x with our SVG based DataViz suite. However, you can check this blog post about how you can use Canvas to make a non-interactive fallback for Android 2.x - its not perfect, but at least the data is rendered.

Regards,
Kamen Bundev
the Telerik team

[Josh]

Thank you for the support link!

Will there be any native support for the DROID template for mobile using the opera Mobi?

When you view a mobile site developed by kendo using opera mobi on droid it does in fact render the DROID template styles but they are "off".  Such as the root menu icons no longer so, there are sizing issues, etc.

[Noli]

I like to see DataViz graphics inside Kendo UI mobile.

e.g.

<div data-role="view" id="dataviz_moblle" data-init="InitGrap" data-title="Mobile DataViz" data-layout="mobile-tabstrip">

     <div data-role="content" style="margin: 0; padding: 0">
        <div id="map_canvas"></div>

Hope to see one added in Kendo UI example.

[Noli]

I like to see DataViz graphics inside Kendo UI mobile.

e.g.

<div data-role="view" id="dataviz_moblle" data-init="InitGrap" data-title="Mobile DataViz" data-layout="mobile-tabstrip">

     <div data-role="content" style="margin: 0; padding: 0">
        <div id="dataviz_graph"></div>

Hope to see one added in Kendo UI example.

[Kamen Bundev]

Hi Josh,

Unfortunately Opera Mobile is not in our immediate plans, though we do have it in mind and our stylesheets mostly support it. Only the absence of flexbox or other good CSS only replacement prevents us from supporting it fully for now.

@Noli: We probably will do a Kendo Mobile / Dataviz integration example at some point since it is requested occasionally, please visit the Kendo UI Feedback page and add this request there (if not already added in which case you can vote for it).

Greetings,
Kamen Bundev
the Telerik team