Progress Introduces New Telerik Kendo UI Capabilities For Building Modern Web And Mobile Applications

Popular JavaScript/HTML5 framework adds additional “responsive design” elements and expands upon some of its most popular UI widgets

Progress recently announced enhancements to the Telerik Kendo UI comprehensive HTML5 and JavaScript UI framework, and its server wrappers for ASP.NET MVC, PHP and JSP, addressing the growing need for responsive design elements in cross-platform and mobile application development. Full details will be available during the webinar, “Build HTML5 Apps Tailored for Any Device,” April 9, 11:00 a.m. ET. Register here. (http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/kendo-ui/march-2015-release)

Improved Responsiveness
Responsive design, a client-side technique for supporting multiple design layouts, has been expanding into the minds of application developers dedicated to delivering cross-platform solutions to accommodate the many sizes and scopes of devices, screen sizes and more. Historically, with the proliferation of the mobile web and the breadth of form factors and devices, responsiveness has gradually become an important requirement for modern user experience.

The Kendo UI framework has responsiveness in its DNA, via a natural integration with the Bootstrap framework and an internal auto-resizing mechanism and API model. With the latest release of the Kendo UI suite, Telerik, a Progress company, has taken responsive design to the next level by introducing a range of improvements targeting mobile web applications of all types and sizes. These new features improve the user experience when interacting with mobile web apps as well as the effectiveness of message delivery by optimizing the usage of screen estate. New features enable developers to:

• Create a hamburger menu when placed inside of a responsive panel, for usage on smaller screens.
• Define whether to show the same Grid or TreeList content on desktop, tablet and phone, or specify different settings for each device.
• Automatically hide the left section of the SplitView widget with on-demand visibility.
• Shift the overflow of view options in Scheduler into dropdown lists or offer date abbreviations, when possible.

Expanding on What Developers Love
With this release, the Kendo UI framework – and the suites for server-side development, UI for ASP.NET MVC, UI for PHP, and UI for JSP – have also made updates to some of its most popular widgets including:

• Export capabilities for all professional widgets
• Excel-like filtering with check boxes and copy/paste cell text in Grid
• Column features in TreeList, such as reordering and resizing, show and hide, and static (frozen) columns support
• Exposure of visual templates in Chart for core elements, enabling developers to tweak or completely replace portions of the chart with custom visualizations
• Virtual scrolling in ComboBox

“The world of Web and mobile application development is iterating at an increasingly aggressive pace, with no signs of slowing,” said Aaron Mahimainathan, Senior Vice President, DevTools and Telerik Platform, Progress. “Our developer community takes pride in the fact that it is always ahead of the development curve and able to maintain this breakneck speed with the ability to push out remarkable apps that exceed consumer demand. We take pride in the fact that the community is using our tools to do this. That’s why we continue to push a consistent stream of valuable updates, such as those released today for the Telerik Kendo UI framework.”

For more details about to register for the April 9 webinar at http://www.telerik.com/campaigns/kendo-ui/march-2015-release.

About Progress
Progress is a global software company that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business applications on-premise or in the cloud, on any platform or device,to any data source, with enhanced performance, minimal IT complexity and low total cost of ownership. For more information, visit www.progress.com.