Kendo UI Adds Tablet Support; Server Wrappers in Latest Release

Waltham, MA (PRWEB) July 11, 2012

Kendo UI, a new product from leading developer tools and solutions provider Telerik, today unveiled its next major release of Kendo UI Complete, a collection of Web, DataViz and management tools for professional software developers. With this release, Kendo UI adds support for tablet UIs and debuts server-side wrappers for ASP.NET MVC in order to extend and simplify development of HTML5 and JavaScript mobile apps and sites.

In todays fragmented computing landscape, developers are turning to HTML5 and JavaScript to build software that can run anywhere and reach the largest possible audience. Kendo UIs award-winning unified framework incorporates adaptive rendering capabilities and leverages the latest in CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript web standards to automatically adapt a mobile apps native look-and-feel on any smartphone and tablet device, while delivering broad support for all major browsers.

With this release, Kendo UI moves beyond mobile phones to help developers create experiences with HTML5 that look native on the iPad and other tablets, said Todd Anglin, Vice President, HTML5 Web and Mobile Tools at Telerik. In addition, weve added important updates across the Kendo UI framework, including the first in a series of server-side wrappers that further equip developers to quickly and cost-effectively create advanced apps and mobile sites with HTML5 and JavaScript.

Creating Rich Tablet UIs

Todays Kendo UI release adds a complete set of controls and widgets for creating rich iPad user interfaces. According to IDC, more than 107 million tablets will ship this year, with nearly 2/3 of those expected to be iPads. By adding iPad-specific widgets to Kendo UI Mobile, the company provides developers with a streamlined way to build native-like apps leveraging HTML5 for the markets #1 tablet.

HTML5 is quickly becoming the dominant cross-platform runtime, with ABI Research forecasting the installed base for mobile devices with HTML5 to grow from approximately 500 million in 2011, to more than 2.1 billion in 2016. Gartner further forecasts that worldwide tablet sales will grow by 98% in 2012 to 119 million units.

Kendo UI Mobile already helps developers build HTML5 or JavaScript apps that automatically transform to the native look-and-feel of iOS, Android and Blackberry. With this update, developers can use Kendo Mobile UIs unique adaptive rendering to target multiple phone and tablet platforms with a single UI codebase, thus eliminating the traditional challenges that developers face of manually researching and then combining all of the plug-ins and frameworks and libraries needed to build mobile apps.

Maximizing Developer Productivity while Supporting Platform Choice

This new release also adds server-side helpers for ASP.NET MVC, enabling developers to incorporate and configure Kendo UI via familiar server-side programming, while still producing apps that benefit from the client-side power of Kendo UI and HTML5. While Kendo UI works with any server-side technology, some developers are less comfortable in JavaScript and CSS, but feel very capable when working inside of a server-side language. These wrappers ensure that developers who prefer to build apps from their own server-side language, can do so quickly.

Developers using the new ASP.NET MVC wrappers can take full advantage of server-side framework features and coding conveniences, while targeting both desktop and mobile devices using the cross-platform power of modern HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Kendo UI Complete for ASP.NET MVC is the first of what the company plans to be a collection of server-side helpers for different platforms, including Java and PHP, all designed to maximize developer productivity with HTML5.

Further Kendo UI Framework Enhancements

In addition to the new iPad widgets and server wrappers, there are updates across the entire Kendo UI framework. These include new and improved widgets and charts in Kendo UI Web and DataViz, enabling the presentation of rich, touch-aware visual information on any browser and any device. Additional enhancements include:

Kendo UI Adds Tablet Support; Server Wrappers in Latest Release