The first release of 2026 brings some notable new features to Xojo’s Android support. You’ll find new charting, color-picking, PDF viewing, and file-zip utilities, plus ongoing improvements to several controls. Here’s a quick tour of what’s new.
MobileChart
Matching the features available for iOS, MobileChart lets you create a wide variety of charts to show in your Android app.
MobileColorPicker
This new control, as its name suggests, lets you use the system color picker to select a color.
MobilePDFViewer
Last year Android added PDFDocument support for creating your own PDFs, and now we’ve added MobilePDFViewer to give you an easy way to show PDF document files from your Android apps.
Zip/Unzip
The FolderItem class now supports the Zip and Unzip methods to make it simple to compress and uncompressed Zip files.
Android Keeps Getting Better
There are also improvements to MobileTabPanel, MobileTextArea, MobileSlider, MobileScrollableArea, Barcode and more. With each release, Android gets closer to feature parity with iOS!
And of course, we continue to squash framework and compiler bugs.
Be sure to check out the full release notes for all the details!
Paul learned to program in BASIC at age 13 and has programmed in more languages than he remembers, with Xojo being an obvious favorite. When not working on Xojo, you can find him talking about retrocomputing at Goto 10 and on Mastodon @lefebvre@hachyderm.io.