Release History / 2018 v2
2018 v2

This section contains information about all the new features, enhancements, and breaking changes in Xamarin for iOS since 2018 v2 release.

General
  • Added a new Entity Framework Core project template.
  • Added Visual Studio for Mac project templates
  • Improved C1Weather sample with updated design and use of Geolocator Plugin to get your local weather
FlexChart

Improvements

  • Added implicit conversion from CAMediaTimingFunction to C1Easing on iOS.
  • Added sunburst update animation
  • Added Histogram Chart type.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue where axis labels could be cut off when LableAngle is set to 45 and LegendPosition is top or bottom.
  • Improved the Auto positioning behavior for LegendPositon.
  • Fixed the issue where setting LegendPosition no longer had a thinning effect on Legend border thickness
  • Fixed several issues where tooltips where not updating properly when data was removed or changed position.
  • Improved Sunburst chart handling of fractional values.
  • Fixed several issues where annotations where not updating properly when data was removed or changed position.
  • Fixed an issue where the bottom part of data series near X axis were cut off when ChartType of one series is set Spline family charts.
FlexGrid

Improvements

  • Added WordWrap property for GridRow.
  • Added FrozenLinesColor property for styling grid lines in frozen rows.
  • DefaultColumnHeadersRowHeight property added.
  • KeyActionTab property added for enabling Excel-like cycling when keyboard tabbing.
  • Grid-lines were improved to display better in the edges of the grid, in grouping scenarios, and in column or row dragging
  • Added customizable selection menu.
  • Added GridColumn HeaderBackgroundColor/HeaderTextColor properties.
  • Added GridRow BackgroundColor/TextColor/HeaderBackgroundColor/HeaderTextColor properties.
  • Added RowHeaderSelectedTextColor/ColumnHeaderSelectedTextColor properties.
  • Added FullTextFilterBehavior.MatchCase and MatchWholeWord properties.
  • Updated Light and Dark mode colors.
  • Added implicit conversion from CAMediaTimingFunction to C1Easing on iOS.
  • Added sunburst update animation
  • Added Histogram Chart type.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when SelectionMode is set to rowRange.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when SelectionMode is set to CellRange and user is filtering.
FlexPie
  • No major change.
CollectionView

Improvements

  • While using filtering operation, now use MatchCase and MatchWholeWord property.
Input

Improvements

  • Added Completed Event for input control.
  • Added MaskCompleted Property for C1MaskTextField.
  • Added Improved animation.
  • Added AutoCompleteMode property in the AutoComplete control.
  • Added ShowClearButton property for showing/hiding clear button from editable input control.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue where DropDown header UI now displays if header is set within StackLayout.
  • Fixed an issue where an Input control could become overlapped with dropdown portion after changing DropDownDirection on iOS.