Chart component for Monotouch? - ipad

For my client I have to develop a dashboard for the iPad (in Monotouch), showing several charts. Is there a chart component available for MonoTouch? Or does anybody have an idea to generate charts for the iPad?
Thanks,
Danny

There are a couple of commercially available chart components with MonoTouch bindings:
ShinobiControls - have launched a beta of their bindings
Steema Charts - have MonoTouch bindings

I was looking for such a control for charting but haven't found one. I draw my graphs manually. After all it is not so big deal just a bit of math. I draw pies and bar graphs.

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google chart and jquery highchart

My UI screens currently use jQuery datatables. I need to add chart feature to some of the screens. I have worked on some samples that utilizes google chart APIs and some that are rendered using jQuery highchart. My first inclination is to use jQuery highchart since all my screens render data tables using jQuery datatables. Is there a technical reason, difference or performance orientation that I choose one over the other. I have been researching this but did not find a concrete reason to bias towards one of the options.
I've diligently used both, and the way it stands today, highcharts just has more to offer, and documentation is superb. You can make that decision yourself by looking at the charts gallery for Google Charts and Highcharts. I personally also think Google Charts has a steeper learning curve. They have two very distinct versions and just more clumsy getting it running. Lastly, Highcharts has animation by default.
You can use jQuery datatables for both though.

TChart quality issue

We were using Delphi 2010 with the full VCL edition of TeeChart this worked fine
We have now updated to Delphi XE 5 with the latest version of TeeChart and the quality of the charts is now worse
Please see the image here
2 bars which were seperate are now merged into 1 bar
If I make the charts wider which is not an option it looks better but still not as good as before
Please see here
Has anyone come across any issue like this?
The projects are here for Delphi XE5 and here for Delphi 2010
The search paths may need modifying
Cheers
Paul
The issue might be because of the anti-aliasing function being turned on by default in the newer versions of TChart(!).
We had the same issue with a line series graph.
After writing to the vendor (Steema) they came up with the following solution:
Chart1.Canvas := TTeeCanvas3D.Create; //Disable GDI+ to prevent smooth drawing of the graph.
I don't get why we have to switch off drawing with GDI+ as - to my knowledge - GDI+ can also be used without anti-alias.
Anyway, our graphs now behave like the previous versions of the TChart, which is what we want.
I was also hating the "new" anti-aliased charts that are blurry and slow.
It's pretty easy to fix, when you know where to search for.
Double-click on chart, then go to 3D -> Render -> select GDI instead of GDI+
If you look "behind the scenes" into DFM file you can see the change:
Crisp and fast graph (as in 2010): DefaultCanvas = 'TTeeCanvas3D'
Blurry and slow graph (as in XE5): DefaultCanvas = 'TGDIPlusCanvas'
chart settings
Hope this helps.
Some kind of a clumsy runtime workaround was found here, that is also working:
http://www.teechart.net/support/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15078

What graphics library with custom controls should be selected for ios development?

I want to find a graphics library for iOS (specifically for iPad), which will have the following features:
Map
TreeMap
Charts (and their asynchronous rendering)
Time navigator
Grids
Drill-Down
Multiaxial
Crosshair
Manual drawing
Zoom
Ability to draw shapes or polygons
Different types of charts (piechart, areachart, barchart, ...)
At the moment I came across a Shinobicontrols. Can be experienced developers prompt me which of the following is in the library, and what is not. And may prompt other libraries.
You might want to look at cocoa controls.

Display charts on iPhone and mobile devices

I have an iOS app which currently uses Google Charts to display some data on a chart. I've seen that as April 2015 Google Image Charts will be deprecated and won't be usable. Is there any other way of displaying charts?
This app also has a counterpart for mobile devices (Symbian, BlackBerry, Bada, etc.) so it'd be cool if this service works also for this devices.
Thanks
You can look at DSBarChart. A simple Objective-C Bar Chart / Histogram library.
And here is the sample usage
Precisely what you are looking for.

iOS: draw editable Graphs in iPad App, using html5

In my App I need to draw graph data with different datamodels that frequently change and can not be generalized. This graph data must be editable with a slider or a segmented control.
The idea is to load all necessary data to draw the graph from the server. Is html5 the right solution? Can the iPad-UI-Controlls used to manipulate the graph?
Where do I start and how much work is it?
Currently I'm using Core Plot to draw the graph - but I need to model my graph data on the server.
Option 1: If you are developing for Android as well or you are better at javascript, then you can use HTML5.0. Have a look at http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/charts/
Option 2: If you want to develop it natively for iPad(which I feel is a better option), then please look at google library for graph http://code.google.com/p/core-plot/ and Is there a good charting library for iPhone?
I extended the work of this gentleman:
http://buildmobile.com/creating-a-graph-with-quartz-2d/#fbid=EKAB22zV7It
And I'm quite pleased with the results. It took me about a week to get my graph able to draw a stock chart with scrolling, pinching zooming, 3 different symbol indicators, a secondary plot line, tap-able data points with a little custom popover showing details, and a few annotations. Not bad considering the overall complexity, and largely thanks to the detailed walkthrough.
He also talks about why he didn't use Core Plot.
Good luck,
Damien

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