Feature Roadmap

This roadmap outlines our anticipated major feature releases in addition to proposed and planned ongoing service releases.

Disclaimer We cannot predict the future and how everything will shake out. Things will change. Timing may be adjusted due to priority changes, in pursuit of quality standards, or any number of other really good reasons that we will strive to proactively and openly communicate.

Current Version

Xamarin.Forms 4.1.0 is the current stable release. Project Board

Release Timing

We are now working on a 6 week release cycle and as appropriate will align releases with Visual Studio in order to preserve the best experience when updating your environment.

4.1.0 (June/July 2019)

Feature	Description	Status
[F100] Checkbox	Spec Pull Request	Completed

4.2.0 (August/September 2019)

Feature	Description	Status
CollectionView (preview)	Spec Project	In Progress
[Spec] CarouselView (preview)	Spec Project	In Progress
FontImage Markup Extension for FontImageSource	Pull Request	Completed
Switch ThumbColor	Pull Request	Completed
Color.ToHex()	Pull Request	Completed
[Shell] Set background image for flyout item	Pull Request	Completed

4.3.0 (September/October 2019)

Feature	Description	Status
[F100] Add support for RelativeSource binding	Spec Pull Request	Completed
[F100] Letter spacing	Spec Pull Request	Completed
CollectionView	Spec Project	In Progress
[Spec] CarouselView	Spec Project	In Progress
[F100] Make Label display HTML from a string	Spec Pull Request	In Progress
[F100] Add "Target" support to VisualStateManager	Spec Pull Request	In Progress
Custom/Embedded fonts	Pull Request	In Progress
[F100] MediaElement/MediaPlayer	Spec Pull Request	In Progress
[F100] CameraView	Spec Pull Request	In Progress
[F100] RadioButton	Spec Pull Request	In Progress
[F100] GIF Animation Support	Spec Pull Request	In Progress
[Enhancement] Convert all default image handling in Android over to using Glide	Spec Pull Request	In Progress
[F100] Floating Action Buttons	Spec Pull Request	In Progress

4.4.0 (November/December 2019)

Feature	Description	Status
[F100] Allow overriding theme capitalization settings in Android	Spec	Proposed
[F100] Rounded Corners	Spec	Proposed
[F100] Bordered Views	Spec	Proposed
Gradients/Brushes	Spec needed	Proposed
[Material] Add attached properties for Material specific attributes	Spec	Proposed
[F100] Transparent Navigation Bar	Spec	Proposed
[F100] Improved Lifecycle Events	Spec Pull Request Branch	In Progress
[Spec] Shell Flyout Content Template	Spec	Proposed
[Spec] Shell Flyout Footer Template	Spec	Proposed
[Shell] Specify transitions	Spec	Proposed
[Spec] Transitions Api	Spec	Proposed
[Shell] Segue navigation	Spec	Proposed
Shell TitleView	Template level control of the entire experience.	Proposed
Shell Top Tab Template	Spec Needed	Proposed
Shell Bottom Tab Template	Need full control of styling individual tabs (center raised for example) Spec Needed	Proposed

Status Legend

Proposed	This is something we want to do, but as yet it hasn’t been fully spec’d and scheduled.
Planned	This is work we are in the process of defining and it has been scheduled.
In Progress	Development work has begun.
In Review	Primary development work has been completed and is currently being reviewed, but has not been merged.
Completed	The work has finished, approved in review, merged and available on our Nightly feed.
Cut	This work has been removed from the release plan. It may be considered for a future release.

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