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Posted by Andrew Burnett-Thompson on 30 December 2021 12:02 PM
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In many ways 2021 has been an incredible year of growth for SciChart, and I wanted to share with you some of our progress in 2021 to ensure you didn’t miss anything, what’s available to you as a customer of SciChart and what is coming soon in 2022. Many customers are delighted with our software, and we consistently receive a 5* rating on external review sites. With this year’s improvements we will help you create innovative, cutting-edge charting applications with incredible performance, features and stability, helping you win business & outpace your competitors. Releases and Updates in 2021We’ve made lots of releases and updates in the past year in our WPF Charts, iOS/Android/macOS charts as well as JavaScript Charts. Take a look at the release notes recap below to see what’s new! If you are not up to date, then do take the opportunity to update. There have been loads of improvements. WPF Chart ReleasesIn 2021 we had several releases for SciChart WPF Chart Library– our flagship product still used by thousands of developers worldwide. SciChart WPF enjoyed a strong year with the following milestones: SciChart WPF 6.3 released in Jan 2021. This included
In July we released SciChart WPF v6.4, which included:
![]() SciChart WPF v6.5 was also released at the end of October 2021, another big upgrade, including:
WPF Consultancy ProjectsThe WPF team also carried out several consultancy projects throughout the year. One was for a Formula One team, and we’ve blogged about SciChart’s use in F1 here and also here: Max, Data and Marginal Gains – Why You Can Only Optimise What You Can See Another was an Electronic Test Measurement manufacturer, where our team built an entire app from scratch to display billions of data-points acquired from digital logic analyser. Case study coming on that soon, but in the meantime check out the new example we have in our WPF Chart Examples Suite – the Digital Analyzer. WPF PerformanceSeveral strides were made in performance this year as well. The introduction of UniformDataSeries allowed us to render massive datasets – up to 64 Billion Datapoints was demonstrated in this video. ![]() Our team also re-evaluated performance vs. our strongest competitor, and blogged about performance test results. SciChart WPF is still by far the world’s fastest WPF chart control, in a wide variety of real-world test cases. Beware of claims to the contrary! ![]() WPF Process ImprovementsFinally the WPF team also pioneered work in the analysis of tech-support requests, finding out what our most common problems were and adding automated testing to improve the quality around those areas. Reducing our tech-support load by pre-emptively finding and fixing common issues and upgrading our build & deployment pipelines will give our team better efficiency in 2022 and beyond. iOS/Android/macOS Chart ReleasesOur native mobile charts had several releases this year, including: SciChart IOS/Android v4.2, released in January which featured:
The mobile team blogged about XCode 12 & Big Sur support here. In July 2021, SciChart iOS/Android v4.3 was released. This release featured:
![]() The mobile team blogged about the challenge/solution of the Swift API here. Something we discovered when creating the SciTrader App. The result of this work was a complete overhaul to our Objective-C / Swift interop, massively improving the usability of SciChart’s iOS Chart Library in Swift (macOS/iPad/iOS) applications. The SciTrader App & SDKIn November 2021 the mobile team released the SciTrader App, a showcase application which you can download from the Apple App Store / Google Play Store. ![]() In the future we plan to make this available as a financial chart library on both native iOS/Android and JavaScript. You can learn more about SciTrader at https://scitrader.io or read our blog post on the SciTrader App & SDK Kotlin Examples for SciChart.AndroidFinally, in December we’ve now published the Android chart examples as both Kotlin and Java. These are viewable by cloning or downloading SciChart.Android.Examples on Github and will be on the website shortly. JavaScript Chart Releases2021 was a big year for SciChart.js – our newest product – a high performance JavaScript/TypeScript WebGL chart library. In Feb 2021 we released SciChart JavaScript v1.2, which included
In March we released SciChart.js v1.3. This release featured:
We also updated the SciChart.js demo site at https://demo.scichart.com with a new look and style. Two minor patches to SciChart.js: v1.3.1514 and SciChart.js v1.4 were released in April & May. These included:
![]() Finally in October we released SciChart.js version 2. We had been working on this all year and this major release included:
Support StatsThat’s not all! A large part of what we do is supporting our customers. SciChart is rated 5* for technical support, and we respond to literally thousands of requests to ensure that you are able to build your projects without interruption. ![]()
We’ve also made multiple improvements to our processes, testing and support including:
All of this will improve quality of our work and efficiency so that we can continue to serve our customer base in 2022 and beyond. Usage & Growth StatsSo it’s great that we’ve made so many releases, and answered so many support & sales requests, but who is using our software? SciChart usage continues to grow: we saw a +25% Year on Year increase in licensing sales in 2021. This compounded on a +20% YoY increase in 2020. The number of users continues to grow and more and more impressive projects use SciChart. ![]()
We’ve made thousands of impossible projects possible with our software and continue to see amazing applications & services built with our chart libraries around the world. What’s Coming in 2022So what’s coming soon? We’re continuing to innovate and build out our cross-platform charting libraries. What you can look forward to in 2022 includes:
Finally, thank you to all our customers who have supported us this year, reviewed us, encouraged us and of course purchased from us. We hope to make you very pleased about your purchasing decisions in the coming 12 months! Best regards, The post SciChart 2021 – What you might have missed & What’s Coming Soon in 2022 appeared first on SciChart. | |