What's new in DevExtreme 14.2.4.0
Feb 5, 2015
- HTML 5/JS Widgets:
- HTML 5 Accordion (optimized for web apps)
- HTML 5 Tree View (optimized for web apps)
- HTML 5 Tag Box (optimized for web and mobile apps)
- HTML 5 Tab Panel (optimized for web and mobile apps)
- HTML 5 Progress Bar (optimized for web and mobile apps)
- HTML 5 File Uploader (optimized for web and mobile apps)
- HTML 5 Box (optimized for web and mobile apps)
- HTML 5 Responsive Layout Box (optimized for web and mobile apps)
- iOS 8 and Android 5 Support:
- DevExtreme now supports the look, feel and user experience of iOS 8 and Android 5.
- The Mobile App Simulator allows you to preview the look, feel and behavior of your apps against iOS 8 and Android 5 devices.
- Validation:
- With this release, DevExtreme ships with a built-in input validation engine with a powerful and straightforward API - one that has been tuned to deliver the best possible UX and one that is consistent across all of our shipping themes.
- Widget Keyboard Support:
- To improve end-user productivity and meet government accessibility requirements, DevExtreme widgets can now be fully controlled with the keyboard. For instance, items displayed within our HTML 5 SelectBox widget may be selected by use of the mouse, gestures or keyboard.
- HTML 5 Widgets Enhancements:
- HTML 5 Data Grid
- HTML 5 List - Edit mode is now available for your desktop browser applications.
- Select Box Search and Editing
- Date Box Time Picker
- DevExtreme Date Box Time Picker
- Tab Horizontal Scrolling
- New UI Events:
- dxtransform - allows you to handle the rotate, zoomIn, zoomOut and move gestures.
- dxcontextmenu - allows you to handle right-clicks or tap and hold in order to invoke a context menu.
- dxpointerleave/dxpointerenter/dxpointerover/dxpointerout
- HTML 5/JS Application Framework:
- Modal Views
- Angular-Based Project Templates - Slideout, NavBar, Pivot
- Visual Studio Integration:
- Build Application Template wizard
- DevExreme projects now support custom application templates created and built using local Cordova CLI
- DevExtreme application templates are updated to the latest version of Cordova (3.6.3).
- DevExtreme projects now support NuGet packages.
- DevExteme Wizards now support OData 4.
- You now have quick access to ThemeBuilder directly from a Visual Studio DevExtreme project.
- iOS 8 and Android 5 are supported by DevExtreme design-time tools and the mobile simulator.
- MS Visual Studio 14 CTP is supported.
- HTML 5 Data Visualization:
- New HTML 5 data visualization widgets, new charts types, improved end-user experiences and dramatically improved performance.
- New Polar Chart
- Chart Enhancements
- New series types - StackedSpline, StackedSplineArea, FullStackedSpline, FullStackedSplineArea
- Error bars can now be used in the scatter, line, spline, bar, area, splineArea series to display errors, deviation and variances in data.
- The diameter of pie charts can now be set explicitly to display multiple pies with the same size on a page.
- Multiple modes for resolving series label overlapping are now available.
- User interaction has been improved.
- Legend, tooltip and crosshair chart elements expose additional usability options.
- Vector Map Improvements:
- You can now display labels for map regions.
- Color and size indication can now be used for areas and markers to better illustrate the value of the specific parameter given for areas/markers in the data source.
- A legend(s) can now be added to a map to provide details on the color and size differentiation.
- You can now obtain the coordinates of clicked markers and any clicked point on a map.
- Zooming is now performed against the current mouse pointer position.
- Range Selector Enhancements - discrete data (categories) are now supported.
- DevExtreme Range Selector - additional Data Visualization Widget Enhancements