[Solved] Xamarin Telerik backward capatibility with Kendo

[Alex]

I'm working on Xamarin forms app and trying to implement a DataGrid. Source came from server which use Kendo and have some option how to show this data in Web. Is it possible to use this settings with Telerik or need to create own parser and control to display this data?

[Lance | Senior Manager - Technical Support]

Hello Alex,

There is no connection/compatibility between Kendo and Telerik UI for Xamarin. They're entirely different technologies, Kendo is HTML and jQuery, while UI for Xamarin is .NET.

If you have everything already written for the web, you can use a Xamarin.Forms WebView and display the web page you already have. Here's some guidance you can follow Xamarin.Forms WebView - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs.

However, if you're using Xamarin.Forms UI (i.e., XAML ), you cannot use your existing HTML/jQuery code in a .NET application (even with some sort of custom HTML parser). So yes, you would write your XAML/C# logic to interact with the same data API backend and show that data using a Telerik UI for Xamarin Chart control. See the Getting Started documentation here Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms Chart Control | Telerik UI for Xamarin. 

Regards,
Lance | Manager Technical Support
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