Conversational UI Control for Xamarin

The Conversational UI component for Telerik UI for Xamarin allows you to create modern chatbot experiences in your Xamarin applications, regardless of the chatbot framework you choose. With  variety of customizable message types such as cards, pickers, suggestions you can replace cumbersome forms with intuitive conversational UI with the look and feel of your app.

Key Features:

• Built-in hero cards
• Built-in suggested actions
• Built-in simple message and typing indicator
• Custom card/attachment templates
• Easy connectivity to chat bot services (Azure/Microsoft Bot Framework, Wit.ai, Amazon Lex)

New Control: TreeView

Another control is making its way into the Telerik UI for Xamarin suite – the TreeView. TreeView is a control, which can be used to display data in a hierarchical structure, commonly used to display file structure, org structure or for the navigation of a mobile application. By implying the hierarchical structure items are clustered into nodes and child nodes making it easier to review and navigate.

New Control: Barcode

The Barcode control for Telerik UI for Xamarin enables the creation of variety of barcodes types in your mobile application, which are used in various industries including aviation, warehousing, healthcare, retail, government and more. The control currently supports the creation of 29 barcode types, including QR, EAN13, EAN8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code39and PDF417 codes. Furthermore, you choose between three sizing modules to fine-tune the rendering of your codes: Manual, Snap and Stretch

Introducing DayView support to the Calendar control

The new DayView feature in the Telerik UI for Xamarin Calendar control enables the end-user to have a detailed view of the schedule for a specific day. The new mode consists of multiple time-slots, where items are placed on a vertical timeline (similar to the experience of the Outlook calendar). DayView comes particularly handy when the end-user schedule is more granular and events’ length is less than a full day. This feature was already supported for Android and iOS, and now support for UWP is in place, covering all platforms.

ListView Expand/Collapse Groups Functionality

With the latest release of Telerik UI for Xamarin, we've extended the ListView feature-set with collapsible groups functionality - now you could display even more items in the ListView in a convenient manner by distributing them in collapsible groups. The groups could be expanded/collapsed programmatically or through a user interaction.

Toolbox for Visual Studio for Mac

We are happy to announce that as of R2 2018, we are now offering ToolBox Support for Visual Studio for Mac, which can facilitate the process of adding Telerik controls to your Xamarin.Forms application on Mac.

Two-way Data Binding to the DataForm component

Based on your feedback, we are adding two-way data binding to the DataForm control, so when the source properties are updated outside of the control, they are still kept in sync with the DataForm editors.