Essential Studio for Xamarin.Android Release Notes

v20.1.0.47
April 4, 2022

Common

Features

  • Now all the android support libraries used in Syncfusion controls are migrated to AndroidX libraries.

  • Syncfusion controls now supports the minimum android version as 5.0 [API 21].

DocIO

Features

  • #I131175, #I195343, #I199221, #I323836, #I333914, #I343475, #I358626 - Provided support for preserving picture fill in DOCX to PDF conversion.
  • #I341225 - Provided an API to link paragraph and character styles in a Word document.

Breaking Changes

  • The default XHTML validation type is changed from XHTMLValidation.Transitional to XHTMLValidation.None while importing a HTML file.

PDF

Features

  • #I259782, #I308276 - Added support for importing and exporting annotations with appearance.
  • #I361251 - Added support for converting the PDF/A conformance document to a normal PDF document.
  • #I362189 - Added support to get annotation type and creation date directly from PdfLoadedAnnotation instance.
  • #I358952 - Improved the performance of Annotation flattening by 30 times faster.
  • Added support for setting base URL for PDF document.

SfAutoComplete

Features

  • Provided the support to customize the load more text label with any custom view in SfAutoComplete.

SfCalendar

Bug fixes

  • #I357817 - Now, SelectedDate works properly when set to todays’ date after changing the calendar view mode from year view to month view.

SfComboBox

Features

  • Provided the support to customize the load more text label with any custom view in SfComboBox.

SfPdfViewer

Bug Fixes

  • #I362800 - The application will no longer crash while loading a particular PDF document.
  • #I367991 - InkPointsCollection will be returned properly in the InkAdded EventArgs.
  • #I367991 - Ink annotation will now be moved or deselected properly.
  • #I365160 - Annotations are now preserved properly on the exported images.

Features

  • #I335385 - Implemented the support for selecting locked annotations and restricted their moving and resizing.
  • #I335385 - Implemented the support for restricting annotation selection.
  • #I353301 - Implemented the support to obtain the PDF page coordinates relative to the PDF Viewer’s client coordinates and vice versa and bring a particular region into view.

Breaking Changes

  • Now, the annotation can be selected if the IsLocked property is set to true for all annotations, particular annotation types, or individual annotations. The tapped and selected events will be raised, but the annotation cannot be modified or removed. As an alternate, the selection of annotations can be disabled by setting the Constraints property value to ~AnnotationConstraints.Selectable.

XlsIO

Features

  • Provided support for new functions such as XLOOKUP, VALUETOTEXT, ARRAYTOTEXT, XMATCH, and LET.

Bug Fixes

  • #I366365 - The default space maintained between cell border and cell text is now rendered properly in Excel to PDF conversion.