Roadmap

Because we recognize that you depend on Xojo for your development, we are making a product roadmap available to you.

Below is a highly summarized version of the big feature items on our roadmap. The order below is the order in which we currently believe we will deliver these features. Features are often developed concurrently by the Xojo team. Thus an individual release will sometimes ship with multiple features from this list. This roadmap only includes large features that we are ready to discuss publicly.

Warning

WARNING: This roadmap is subject to change. It will be reviewed monthly and revised if necessary. The order in which we expect features to ship may change as features get closer to completion. Do NOT make concrete plans based upon this roadmap. An upcoming feature's suitability for a project cannot be judged until a feature can be tested.

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Upcoming

These items are planned for upcoming releases of Xojo:

Item	Description
macOS signing improvements	Automatically select the right signing certificate for development, distribution, etc
Libraries for Android	Create and use libraries for Android
Debugger watchpoints	Watch certain variables when their values change during debugging, and dynamically set conditions when they meet certain value criteria
Web SEO compatibility	Make web apps that are more easily indexable by search engines.
DBKit v2	The next major version of DBKit with new capabilities and the ability to make custom DBKit controls.
Unicode support for PDF	Correct use/render Unicode characters in generated PDFs.
Modern UI for Windows 10/11	Use the latest modern UI controls in your apps that run on Windows 10/11.
Desktop control baseline/default size improvements	Updated control defaults and new vertical alignment property to more easily group controls together with proper alignment
Control locking for iOS	Allow control placement, width/height setting, and locking like other project types in addition to constraints.
Jade - project interactivity	The ability for Jade to directly change and update the contents of a project when desired.
Command-line compiler	Run Xojo from a console and build systems directly to build projects without requiring the full IDE or communicator.
Single project with multiple layouts and shared event code	Ability to easily share code across multiple platforms from the same project view.

Delivered

The roadmap items below have already been implemented in versions of Xojo that have shipped previously. For more details about a specific release, see the release notes.

Release	Item	Description
2025r3	Xojo Libraries	Portions of protected Xojo code that are easily shared between projects and developers.
2025r3	AI assistant	Built-in access to an AI assistant to help with your projects.
2025r3	Grid control	A flexible Desktop grid control with row/column management and more.
2025r1	Linux ARM IDE	Allows Xojo itself to run on Raspberry Pi and other Linux ARM computers/VMs.
2025r1	macOS/iOS App Store Support	Built-in support to help submit to macOS and iOS app stores.
2024r3	Preemptive threads	Ability to run threads with non-UI code across multiple CPU cores.
2024r2	DatabaseConnection class	DatabaseConnection class that can represent the connection to both development and production servers
2024r1	Popover	A dialog-like layout that can pop up over the existing layout.
2023r3	Zip	The ability to zip and unzip files.
2023r2	Android (Beta)	The ability to build native apps that run on Android devices.
2023r2	Dark Mode for Web	Web apps automatically switch to dark mode when the browser does.
2022r4	ARM64 for Linux	The ability to build ARM64 apps for Linux.
2022r2	ARM64 for Windows	The ability to build ARM64 apps for Windows.
2022r1	New documentation system	Documentation available in an updated, modern format.
2022r1	iOS on-device debugging	The ability to debug iOS apps on device from macOS.
2021r3	New Desktop controls with API 2 events	Availability of desktop controls with improved consistency. Not required to use, just made available.
2021r3	Windows dark mode support	The ability to build apps and use Xojo with support for automatic changing colors/controls in Windows dark mode.
2021r3	Build macOS apps from Windows and Linux	The ability to build and remote debug macOS apps from Windows and Linux
2021r2	PDF support on iOS	The ability to render PDFs in iOS apps.
2021r2	iOS Notifications service for Xojo Cloud	The ability to easily setup iOS notifications from your Xojo Cloud server.
2021r1	Xojo is Universal	Xojo itself is now a Universal binary for macOS and runs natively on Apple Silicon.
2020r2	API 2.0 for iOS	A new set of APIs that are API 2.0-compliant making it easy to share code with your desktop, web and Android projects.
2020r2	New Desktop controls	Built-in Date/Time picker and Search controls for Desktop apps.
2020r2	Plugins for iOS	The ability to build and use plugins based on an updated PluginSDK for iOS.
2020r2	Multicore	An easy way to utilize multiple cores (via Worker) in your Desktop applications.
2020r2	Native Apple Silicon builds	Compile native Apple Silicon/Universal versions of your apps.
2020r1	Web Framework 2.0	A from-the-ground-up rewrite of the Xojo web framework providing more robust web applications, a modern user interface, many new controls, better style management and more. The APIs in this version are API 2.0-compliant.
2020r1	PDF Support	Create PDFs using familiar Graphics class routines for Desktop, Web, and Console.