Inovista Mobile App tools help you to work around these current limitations. Inovista components include the Mobile App suite specifically for mobile devices, additionally existing components have been enhanced for mobile. A very wide range of options are available, including:

 

 

Touch Scroll Lists that are created in Xcelsius and can be placed in the application or opened by another component such as a button. They attempt to replicate the behavior of native mobile lists. The lists can be skinned with a background image and each list item can also contain a different image.
Online Data Access. The Dashboard Reader allows data to be accessed via XML, Query as a Web Service and also offers integration with InfoSol's InfoBurst product. InfoBurst provides very rapid data retrieval and even offers the capability of updating online databases from the tablet.
Floating, Draggable, Animated Background Containers (the SVG Background). This component is a container (now including core Xcelsius components) that can be dragged, moved and bounced around the screen.
Mobile Style Sliders and Progress Bars.
Text Input Simulator. This add-on is deployed to simulate objects like a combo box. The standard Xcelsius combo box does not really work in a mobile environment, so by combining the Text Input Simulator with, for example, the Touch Scroll List provides a genuine mobile look and feel. In Android devices, this add-on can be deployed to call the operating system and present the user with native lists and the system soft keyboard.
The Swipe Manager simulates swipe gestures for both Android and iOS devices. Swipe gestures may be up, down, left or right. One option allows the designer to increment a value in the Xcelsius spreadsheet. This means, for example, as a user continues to swipe to the right a different window can be moved into place; the window corresponding to the value in the spreadsheet.
Scroll Suppression. The Swipe Manager has an option which allows the designer to remove scroll bars from the parent application. Other Inovista components such as the Tree Grid, Org Chart, and SVG Components also allow the removal of scroll bars.
Long Touch Tooltips. Inovista components offer powerful custom tooltip options. On mobile devices, it is difficult to present tooltips, so we decided to implement tooltips using a long touch event. Components such as the Microcharts, Data and Tree Grids and SVG Controller all offer the capability of popping up a tooltip after a user has held down a finger on a sensitive part of the visualization for a defined period of time (default is 1/2 a second).
Scalable Components. All Inovista components are created to be scalable without losing any image quality. This is a particularly useful feature in mobile devices where screen real estate is limited. On Android devices, a pinch/zoom gesture is also available for scaling individual components.
The Ability to Sub-Divide and Chain Applications. Applications on a mobile device can take a significant amount of time to load, so to help minimize this, Xcelsius dashboards can be broken down into smaller sub-sets. By using a URI Scheme, which can be defined in the Mobile App Builder, applications can be open from each other or called from an on-line or local web page.
Shared Data. When applications share a user id and use the same certificate, data can be shared between them. This means that in a suite of applications, data available in the spreadsheet of one Xcelsius dashboard can be transferred to another application and vice versa.
Pinch/Zoom Gestures. Two finger gestures are available and can be used, for example, to update the scale cell in an Xcelsius dashboard, allowing a user to scale maps and charts with a pinch/zoom.
Geo Location. The current location of the Android device with a GPS capability can be pumped into an Xcelsius spreadsheet at pre-defined intervals, for example, every 500 milliseconds or every 10 minutes.
Splash Screen. A customized splash screen can be added for each dashboard and shown until the application completes start up.