An elegant and friendly chart library for iOS

AAChartKit

AAChartKit is an elegant, friendly and easy to use chart library for iOS, based on the open source Highcharts JS libraries. AAChartKit is extremely powerful, easy to configure and a pleasure to use. Currently AAChartKit includes support for the following chart types: column chart, bar chart, area chart, area spline chart, line chart, spline chart, radar chart, polar chart, pie chart, bubble chart, pyramid chart, funnel chart, column range and area range chart. More chart types are planned to be supported. AAChartKit gives you easy and fast access to a wide range of chart types, hassle-free and quick to integrate into your own project.

Features

  1. Support up from iOS 6, ARC support.
  2. Powerful and easy to use. It supports column chart, bar chart, area chart, areaspline chart, line chart, spline chart, radar chart, polar chart, pie chart, bubble chart, pyramid chart, funnel chart, columnrange chart, arearange chart, mixed chart and other graphics. Support for more chart types is planned.
  3. The charts are interactive and animated. The animation effect is exquisite, delicate, smooth and beautiful.
  4. Supports chain programming syntax like Masonry
  5. AAChartView + AAChartModel = Chart. The AAChartKit follows a minimalist formula: Chart view + Chart model = The chart you want, just like the powerful and beautiful charts lib AAInfographics

Beauty Appreciation

Column Chart Column Range Chart Area Chart
Line Chart Step Area Chart Step Line Chart
Spline Chart Areaspline Chart Stacked Polar Chart
Bubble Chart Arearange Average Value Chart Column Mixed Line Chart

Usage

The required 'pre' work

  1. Drag the AAChartKitLib folder into your project.

  2. Add the following to your .pch file.

#import "AAGlobalMacro.h"

The 'real' work

  1. Add the following to your view controller file:
#import "AAChartKit.h"
  1. Create an instance object of chart view:AAChartView
CGFloat chartViewWidth  = self.view.frame.size.width;
CGFloat chartViewHeight = self.view.frame.size.height-250;
_aaChartView = [[AAChartView alloc]init];
_aaChartView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 60, chartViewWidth, chartViewHeight);
//_aaChartView.scrollEnabled = NO;
//// set the content height of aaChartView
// _aaChartView.contentHeight = chartViewHeight;
[self.view addSubview:_aaChartView];
  1. Configure the chart model properties: AAChartModel
AAChartModel *aaChartModel= AAObject(AAChartModel)
.chartTypeSet(AAChartTypeColumn)
.titleSet(@"THE HEAT OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE")
.subtitleSet(@"Virtual Data")
.categoriesSet(@[@"Java",@"Swift",@"Python",@"Ruby", @"PHP",@"Go",@"C",@"C#",@"C++"])
.yAxisTitleSet(@"Degrees Celsius")
.seriesSet(@[
        AAObject(AASeriesElement)
        .nameSet(@"2017")
        .dataSet(@[@7.0, @6.9, @9.5, @14.5, @18.2, @21.5, @25.2, @26.5, @23.3, @18.3, @13.9, @9.6]),
        AAObject(AASeriesElement)
        .nameSet(@"2018")
        .dataSet(@[@0.2, @0.8, @5.7, @11.3, @17.0, @22.0, @24.8, @24.1, @20.1, @14.1, @8.6, @2.5]),
        AAObject(AASeriesElement)
        .nameSet(@"2019")
        .dataSet(@[@0.9, @0.6, @3.5, @8.4, @13.5, @17.0, @18.6, @17.9, @14.3, @9.0, @3.9, @1.0]),
        AAObject(AASeriesElement)
        .nameSet(@"2020")
        .dataSet(@[@3.9, @4.2, @5.7, @8.5, @11.9, @15.2, @17.0, @16.6, @14.2, @10.3, @6.6, @4.8]),
                 ])
;
  1. Draw the chart (this method is only called the first time you create an AAChartView instance object)
//The chart view object calls the instance object of AAChartModel and draws the final graphic
[_aaChartView aa_drawChartWithChartModel:aaChartModel];

???Congratulations! Everything was done!!! You will get what you want!!!???

Update chart content

if you want to refresh chart content,you should do something as follow.According to your actual needs, select the function that fits you.

  • Refresh the chart data (this method is recommended for updating the series data dynamically)
//Refresh the chart dynamically only when the series attribute of the AAChartModel object is updated
[_aaChartView aa_onlyRefreshTheChartDataWithChartModelSeries:aaChartModelSeriesArray];
  • Refresh the chart, minus the chart data (this method is recommended for subsequent refreshes after the first drawing of graphics has completed. If you want to update the chart data only, you should use the function aa_onlyRefreshTheChartDataWithChartModelSeries)
//Refresh the chart after the AAChartModel content is updated
[_aaChartView aa_refreshChartWithChartModel:aaChartModel];

Samples

  • line chart

  • column chart

  • bar chart

  • special area chart one

  • special area chart two

  • special area chart three

  • radar chart

  • polar chart

  • pie chart

  • bubble chart

  • scatter chart

  • arearange chart

  • step area chart

  • mixed chart

More graphics

  • Note: The following DEMO picture is a GIF dynamic picture which has a size of around 6M. If you don't see any dynamic preview, then this is because the picture resources were not fully loaded. In such a case please be patient and wait for the contents to finish loading. Maybe you need to reload this page.

Special instructions

Special chart types in AAChartKit

The pie chart as well as the bubble chart are special in AAChartKit. If you want to draw these types of charts, you need to prepare the property series of AAChartModel differently:

  • To draw a pie chart, you should configure the properties of AAChartModel like this:
   AAChartModel *chartModel= AAObject(AAChartModel)
    .chartTypeSet(AAChartTypePie)
    .titleSet(@"THE HEAT OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE")
    .subtitleSet(@"Virtual Data")
    .yAxisTitleSet(@"Degrees Celsius")
    .seriesSet(
               @[AAObject(AASeriesElement)
                 .nameSet(@"Percent")
                 .dataSet(@[
                            @[@"Java"  , @67],
                            @[@"Swift" , @44],
                            @[@"Python", @83],
                            @[@"OC"    , @11],
                            @[@"Ruby"  , @42],
                            @[@"PHP"   , @31],
                            @[@"Go"    , @63],
                            @[@"C"     , @24],
                            @[@"C#"    , @888],
                            @[@"C++"   , @66],
                            ]),
                 ]
               
               )
    ;
  • To draw a bubble chart, you should configure the properties of AAChartModel like this:
   AAChartModel *chartModel= AAObject(AAChartModel)
    .chartTypeSet(AAChartTypeBubble)
    .titleSet(@"THE HEAT OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE")
    .subtitleSet(@"Virtual Data")
    .yAxisTitleSet(@"Degrees Celsius")
    .seriesSet(
               @[
                 AAObject(AASeriesElement)
                 .nameSet(@"2017")
                 .dataSet(
                          @[
                            @[@97, @36, @79],
                            @[@94, @74, @60],
                            @[@68, @76, @58],
                            @[@64, @87, @56],
                            @[@68, @27, @73],
                            @[@74, @99, @42],
                            @[@7,  @93, @87],
                            @[@51, @69, @40],
                            @[@38, @23, @33],
                            @[@57, @86, @31]
                            ]),
                 
                 AAObject(AASeriesElement)
                 .nameSet(@"2018")
                 .dataSet(
                          @[
                            @[@25, @10, @87],
                            @[@2,  @75, @59],
                            @[@11, @54, @8 ],
                            @[@86, @55, @93],
                            @[@5,  @3,  @58],
                            @[@90, @63, @44],
                            @[@91, @33, @17],
                            @[@97, @3,  @56],
                            @[@15, @67, @48],
                            @[@54, @25, @81]
                            ]),
                 
                 AAObject(AASeriesElement)
                 .nameSet(@"2019")
                 .dataSet(
                          @[
                            @[@47, @47, @21],
                            @[@20, @12, @4 ],
                            @[@6,  @76, @91],
                            @[@38, @30, @60],
                            @[@57, @98, @64],
                            @[@61, @17, @80],
                            @[@83, @60, @13],
                            @[@67, @78, @75],
                            @[@64, @12, @10],
                            @[@30, @77, @82]
                            ]),
                 
                 ]
               )
    ;

Supported chart types for now

typedef NSString *AAChartType;

AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeColumn;          //column chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeBar;             //bar chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeArea;            //area chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeAreaspline;      //area spline chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeLine;            //line chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeSpline;          //spline chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeScatter;         //scatter chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypePie;             //pie chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeBubble;          //bubble chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypePyramid;         //pyramid chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeFunnel;          //funnel chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeColumnrange;     //column range chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeArearange;       //area range chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeAreasplinerange; //area spline range chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeBoxplot;         //box plot chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypeWaterfall;       //Waterfall chart
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartType const AAChartTypePolygon;         //polygon chart

Supported zoom guesture types for now

typedef NSString *AAChartZoomType;

AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartZoomType const AAChartZoomTypeNone;
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartZoomType const AAChartZoomTypeX;
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartZoomType const AAChartZoomTypeY;
AACHARTKIT_EXTERN AAChartZoomType const AAChartZoomTypeXY;

Supported animation types for now

typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger,AAChartAnimation) {
    AAChartAnimationLinear = 0,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInQuad,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutQuad,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInOutQuad,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInCubic,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutCubic,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInOutCubic,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInQuart,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutQuart,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInOutQuart,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInQuint,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutQuint,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInOutQuint,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInSine,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutSine,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInOutSine,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInExpo,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutExpo,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInOutExpo,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInCirc,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutCirc,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInOutCirc,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutBounce,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInBack,
    AAChartAnimationEaseOutBack,
    AAChartAnimationEaseInOutBack,
    AAChartAnimationElastic,
    AAChartAnimationSwingFromTo,
    AAChartAnimationSwingFrom,
    AAChartAnimationSwingTo,
    AAChartAnimationBounce,
    AAChartAnimationBouncePast,
    AAChartAnimationEaseFromTo,
    AAChartAnimationEaseFrom,
    AAChartAnimationEaseTo,
};

Here are the ten concrete animation types of AAChartKit

Back Bounce Circ Cubic Elastic
Expo Quad Quart Quint Sine

AAChartModel:chart attribute list

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, title);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSNumber *, titleFontSize);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, titleFontColor);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, titleFontWeight);

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, subtitle);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSNumber *, subtitleFontSize);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, subtitleFontColor);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, subtitleFontWeight);

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSArray  *, series);

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, AAChartSubtitleAlignType, subtitleAlign);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, AAChartType,              chartType);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, AAChartStackingType,      stacking);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, AAChartSymbolType,        symbol);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, AAChartSymbolStyleType,   symbolStyle);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, AAChartZoomType,          zoomType);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, AAChartAnimation,         animationType);

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, animationDuration);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       inverted);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       xAxisReversed);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       yAxisReversed);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       gradientColorEnabled);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       polar);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       dataLabelEnabled);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, dataLabelFontColor);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, dataLabelFontSize);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, dataLabelFontWeight);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       xAxisLabelsEnabled);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSNumber *, xAxisLabelsFontSize);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, xAxisLabelsFontColor);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, xAxisLabelsFontWeight);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSArray  *, categories);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, xAxisGridLineWidth);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, xAxisTickInterval);

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       xAxisVisible);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       yAxisVisible);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       yAxisLabelsEnabled);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, yAxisTitle);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSNumber *, yAxisLabelsFontSize);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, yAxisLabelsFontColor);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, yAxisLabelsFontWeight);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, yAxisGridLineWidth);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSArray     <NSString *>*, colorsTheme);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, backgroundColor);

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       tooltipEnabled);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, tooltipValueSuffix);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy  , AAChartModel, NSString *, tooltipValueString);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       tooltipCrosshairs);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       connectNulls);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       legendEnabled);

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, borderRadius);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, markerRadius);

AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(assign, AAChartModel, BOOL,       yAxisAllowDecimals);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSArray  *, yAxisPlotLines);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, yAxisMax);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSNumber *, yAxisMin);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(strong, AAChartModel, NSArray  *, yAxisTickPositions);
AAPropStatementAndPropSetFuncStatement(copy,   AAChartModel, NSString *, zoomResetButtonText);

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