News

June 21, 2010

Release 0.5.0

The 0.5.0 version has been released. It contains the following new features:

  • New chart type: range (high-low) bar chart
  • New chart settings (available for all chart types)
    • Text typeface setting for all text types.
    • Text font size setting for main title, axis titles, labels, legend labels, chart values.
  • New chart settings (available for line, area and time charts):
    • Line width settings
  • Demo application improvements:
    • Code that demonstrates how to put a chart view and other view widgets together into the same activity
    • Demos for the bubble chart and the new range bar chart
    • Updated the files layout such as it runs fine on Android 1.5+
December 19, 2009

Release 0.4.0

The 0.4.0 version has been released. In this release, the following new features have been added:

  • New chart types: the doughnut chart, the bubble chart.
  • New chart settings (available for all chart types)
    • The ability to remove series data
    • Anti-aliasing
  • New chart settings (available for line, area, scatter, time, bubble and bar charts):
    • Grid lines
    • User defined range is not overridden anymore
 
May 15, 2009

Release 0.3.0

The 0.3.0 version has been released. In this release, the following new features have been added:

  • New chart settings (available for line, area, scatter, time and bar charts):
    • Orientation of the X axis - can be HORIZONTAL (default) or VERTICAL
    • The value of the chart point can be displayed on top (for the horizontal charts) or right side (for the vertical charts) of each point
    • The X axis labels can be set as being custom strings. The existing numeric or date X axis labels can be hidden or can be displayed together with the custom labels
  • Bar charts having multiple series are not rendered as stacked by default, the bars are displayed one next to the other instead. The stacked bar charts are still supported.
 
March 2, 2009

Release 0.2.0

The 0.2.0 version has been released. In this release, the following new features have been added:

  • New chart type: the pie chart
  • A demo project with source code included
  • Chart settings (available for line, area, scatter, time and bar charts):
    • X axis approximative labels number
    • Y axis approximative labels number
  • Time chart settings:
    • Set the date format pattern for displaying the date and/or time values as X axis labels
  • Series settings:
    • If the chart should be filled below (or above, if the points are located below the Y = 0 axis) its line, but above / below (depending on the Y values) the Y = 0 axis and the fill color - for the line chart. By doing this, a line chart becomes an area chart
    • If the points should be filled - for the line, area, scatter and time charts
February 16, 2009

First version (release 0.1.0)

The first version (release 0.1.0) was released. In this release, the following chart types can be displayed:

  • Line chart
  • Area chart
  • Scatter chart
  • Time chart
  • Bar chart

All the above chart types support multiple series. For instance, in a line chart, this means that several distinct lines can be drawn into the same chart (one line per series).

Any chart can be displayed as a full screen activity or as a view, embedded into a view group. Based on the developer preference, the following properties can be adjusted:

  • Chart settings (available for line, area, scatter, time and bar chart types):
    • Chart title
    • X axis title
    • Y axis title
    • X axis range
    • Y axis range
    • If the labels (axes labels, title, X axis title, Y axis title) should be displayed or not
    • The labels display color
    • If the axes should be displayed
    • The axes display color
    • If the background color should be defined
    • The background color
    • If the legend should be displayed
  • Series settings:
    • Title - for the line, area, scatter, time and bar chart types
    • Color - for the line, area, scatter, time and bar chart types
    • Point style - for the line, area, scatter and time charts