New features

• Custom styling (#146)
  A simple, trait-based approach for customizing the appearance of different widgets.

• Event subscriptions (#122)
  A declarative way to listen to external events asynchronously by leveraging streams.

• Canvas widget (#193)
  A widget for drawing 2D graphics with an interface inspired by the Web Canvas API and powered by lyon.

• PaneGrid widget (#224)
  A widget that dynamically organizes layout by splitting panes that can be resized and drag and dropped.

• Svg widget (#111)
  A widget that renders vector graphics on top of resvg and raqote. Thanks to @Maldela!

• ProgressBar widget (#141)
  A widget to notify progress of asynchronous tasks to your users. Thanks to @Songtronix!

• Configurable futures executor (#164)
  Support for plugging tokio, async-std, wasm-bindgen-futures, or your own custom futures executor to an application.

• Compatibility with existing wgpu projects (#183)
  A bunch of improvements to the flexibility of iced_wgpu to allow integration in existing codebases.

• Text selection for TextInput (#202)
  Thanks to @FabianLars and @Finnerale!

• Texture atlas for iced_wgpu (#154)
  An atlas on top of guillotiere for batching draw calls. Thanks to @Maldela!

More examples

• bezier_tool, a Paint-like tool for drawing Bézier curves using lyon.
• clock, an application that uses the Canvas widget to draw a clock and its hands to display the current time.
• counter, the classic counter example explained in the README.
• custom_widget, a custom widget that draws a circle.
• download_progress, a basic application that asynchronously downloads a dummy file of 100 MB and tracks the download progress.
• events, a log of native events displayed using a conditional Subscription.
• geometry, a custom widget showcasing how to draw geometry with the Mesh2D primitive in iced_wgpu.
• integration, an example demonstrating how to integrate Iced in an existing graphical application.
• pane_grid, a grid of panes that can be split, resized, and reorganized.
• pokedex, an application that displays a random Pokédex entry (sprite included!) by using the PokéAPI.
• progress_bar, a simple progress bar that can be filled by using a slider.
• styling, an example showcasing custom styling with a light and dark theme.
• solar_system, an animated solar system drawn using the Canvas widget and showcasing how to compose different transforms.
• stopwatch, a watch with start/stop and reset buttons showcasing how to listen to time.
• svg, an application that renders the Ghostscript Tiger by leveraging the Svg widget.

Thank you! 🎉

• @AlisCode created iced-pancurses, started a great issue to find a project logo (#143), and worked on a potential website (#115).
• @artursapek contributed a Mesh2D primitive for iced_wgpu (#140) which ended up being the foundations of the Canvas widget.
• @clarkmoody added customization support for the Checkbox widget (#192).
• @daxpedda improved the Node API (#187) and has been working on the Grid widget (#189).
• @ejmahler removed the Clone bound on the Message associated type of Application (#155).
• @FabianLars contributed text selection for TextInput (#202) on top of @Finnerale's work.
• @Friz64 enhanced the scrolling behavior of the Scrollable widget (#95).
• @Gohla introduced missing style attributes in iced_web (#127), removed unnecessary bounds (#128), and built a cool Space Engineers calculator.
• @hatoo added platform-specific settings to iced_winit (#94), implemented the bezier_tool example (#144), and provided feedback related to using the library for building VST plugins (#118).
• @Imberflur updated winit to 0.21 (#181) and exposed the Clipboard type in iced_winit (#178).
• @kaimast removed unnecessary lifetimes in the integration example (#240) and contributed other minor code cleanups (#242).
• @maaku fixed some formatting to comply with cargo fmt (#228).
• @Maldela implemented the Svg widget (#111) and a texture atlas for iced_wgpu (#154).
• @memoryruins cleaned up some code and made it more idiomatic (#45).
• @michael-swan implemented Ctrl+Backspace behavior for TextInput (#249).
• @mrkgnao added support for displaying already-decoded images (#211).
• @nvzqz made a bunch of functions const (#91) and added some From implementations (#92).
• @piaoger fixed the file path of the svg example (#196).
• @Plecra improved the scaling of the hands in the clock example (#251).
• @rowungiles introduced a with_children method for Column and Row (#220).
• @Shootertrex fixed the hash_layout implementation of the Image widget (#101).
• @simlay experimented with iOS support and touch events (#57) while contributing to winit.
• @Songtronix wrote the ProgressBar widget (#141), contributed the download_progress example (#232), and has been using the library in Airshipper, a cross-platform launcher for Veloren.
• @sumibi-yakitori enabled custom fonts for TextInput (#171).
• @tirz removed unnecessary 'static lifetimes in a bunch of generic types (#245).