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 May 2021

Create an extra folder for complex widgets
- It makes the core LVGL leaner
- In extra we can have a lot and specific widgets
- Good place for contributions
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
- CSS Flexbox-like layout support
- Remove lv_cont and support layouts on lv_obj
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
Remove the copy parameter from create functions
Optimize and simplifie styles #1832
Use a more generic inheritenace #1919

Add radio button widget
Unit testing (gtest?). See #1658
Benchmarking (gem5?). See #1660
chart: pre-delete X pint after the lastly set
chart: autoscroll to the right
lv_snapshot: buffer a widget and all of its children into an image. he source widget can be on a different screen too. The result image can be transformed.
9-patch support for lv_imgbtn.
Handle stride. See #1858
Rework animation to something like GSAP
- Add scroll trigger inspired by GSAP scrolltrigger
- Add FLIP inspired by GSAP FLIP

Simplify groups. Discussion is here.
Consider direct binary font format support
Optimize line and circle drawing and masking
Reconsider color format management for run time color format setting, and custom color format usage. (Also RGB888)
Switch to RGBA colors in styles
Make gradients more versatile
Make image transformations more versatile