API for iOS, Android and WPF not identically

Hi all,

Why the API’s for iOS, Android and WPF are not identically?
I have seen many samples on the forum, but to adapt it to a different platform is very hard.
A lot of classes are different for each platform.

Is there any “comparison” for the different platforms?
Is this planned to unify the API’s?

Regards
Urs

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Urs Geser asked 4 years ago

- Andrew Burnett-Thompson
- 4 years ago
I should add, if there’s any specific API that is very dissimilar you’d like us to improve, please let us know which. Best regards, Andrew

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Answers (1)

Answer: because they are written in different languages, in different frameworks and operating systems.

For example:

WPF supports MVVM, templating and XAML, it has C# with generics
Java supports generics, but layout is defined in a layout XML file (not XAML). Java doesn’t have properties but does have get/set methods.
Swift/Objective-C have poor support for generics, views are created in a designer file. There is no XAML or MVVM.

The main concepts however are the same across all platforms.

The SciChartSurface hosts the chart surface
The SciChartSurface has one or more XAxis or YAxis
The SciChartSurface has one or more RenderableSeries which draws the data
RenderableSeries each have a DataSeries which holds the data
Zooming, Panning, Tooltips are provided by ChartModifiers
Annotations are added to the SciChartSurface.Annotations properties.

I hope this helps clarify our design choices. We will work toward unifying the APIs as much as possible, but it will never be possible to get 100% unification because different operation systems and programming languages support different things.