I've had good success in the past with flotr2 http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2/
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Jorke Odolphi <jo...@jorke.net> wrote: > Depends if they were sitting on chairs.. > > I’ve had great success with - http://d3js.org/ -it covers that platforms > i’ve needed to address: http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg > > The learning curve can be pretty steep – but I sense you seem to enjoy > that :) > > > From: <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on behalf of Greg Keogh > Reply-To: ozDotNet > Date: Thursday, 10 September 2015 5:19 pm > To: ozDotNet > Subject: Cross-platform charting > > Hi Folks, I may have found a use for JavaScript (I can hear people falling > out of their chairs from here!) ... indirectly. I'm keen to hear if anyone > is doing what I'm about to try. > > My Xamarin generated app for phones on 3 platforms has to display charts > and gauges of various types. I went looking for libraries to do this and > found a variety with differing reputations and forum arguments about their > pros and cons. I found Syncfusion for Xamarin which is a technical work of > art and has renders for all 3 platforms that are single-line additions, > then you feed the data in an off you go. I had it working in an hour, and I > emailed them to confirm the price on their web link was actually $US99. No > reply, but I noticed 3 days later that the price list has updated to show > the price is actually $US1995, and the $99 is for the iOS target only. > Methinks it was a mistake. So I've deleted Syncfusion. > > Ok, now for some lateral thinking: get "someone else" to draw the charts > for me. Candidates are Google Charts > <https://developers.google.com/chart/> and the Microsoft equivalent (I've > lost it, what's it called ... ANYONE?!). > > In the mobile apps I feed the data as JavaScript arrays into HTML and show > it in the WebView control which works easily on all platforms. So on online > service is doing all the rendering for me. > > I'm just about to try the Google one, but I thought I'd ask for comments. > > *Greg K* > -- w: http://jcooney.net t: @josephcooney
