Roadmap

This is a summary for thenew fatures of the major releases and a collection of ideas.

This list indicates only the current intention and can be changed.

v8

Planned to September/October 2020

• New scrolling:
  • See feat/new-scroll branch and #1614) issue.
  • Remove lv_page and support scrolling on lv_obj
  • Support "elastic" scrolling when scrolled in
  • Support scroll chaining among any objects types (not only lv_pagess)
  • Remove lv_drag. Similar effect can be achieved by setting the position in LV_EVENT_PRESSING
  • Add snapping
  • Add snap stop to scroll max 1 snap point
  • Already working
• New layouts:
  • See #1615 issue
  • CSS Grid-like layout support
  • Work in progress
• Simplified File system interface (feat/new_fs_api branch) to make porting easier
  • Work in progress
• Remove the align parameter from lv_canvas_draw_text

v8.1

• Add radio button widget

v9

• Simplify groups. Discussion is here.
• Unit testing (gtest?). See #1658
• Benchmarking (gem5?). See #1660
• Consider direct binary font format support
• Remove the copy paramter from create functions

Ideas

• 9-patch support for lv_imgbtn.
• lv_mem_alloc_aligned(size, align)
• Text node. See #1701
• RGB888 support #1722
• Consider ARGB4444, ARGB1555 format
• CPP binding. See Forum
• Optmize font decompression
• Switch to RGBA colors in styles
• Need coverage report for tests
• Need static analize (via coverity.io or somehing else)
• Support dot_begin and dot_middle long modes for labels
• Add new label alignment modes. #1656