Live Editor

Use the MATLAB Live Editor to create MATLAB scripts and functions that combine code, output, and formatted text in an executable notebook.

NEW Live Editor Controls: Create dynamic controls in live scripts by linking variables to drop-down items and slider values (R2021a)

NEW Live Editor Fonts: Change the name, style, size, and color of fonts programmatically using settings (R2021a)

NEW Live Editor Bookmarks: Navigate quickly between lines (R2021a)

NEW Live Editor Animation Playback Controls: Interactive interface to control animations (R2021a)

Live Editor on iOS: Create, edit, and run live scripts in MATLAB Mobile on iPhone and iPad (R2020b)

Live Editor: Use a live script hyperlink to open another live script (R2020b)

Exporting to Standard Formats: Save live scripts and functions individually and in batch to PDF, Microsoft Word, HTML, and LaTeX (R2019a, R2020b)

Live Tasks: Use Live Editor Tasks to explore parameters, see results, and automatically generate code (R2019b, R2020a)

Hiding Code: Hide code when sharing and exporting live scripts (R2019a)

App Building

App Designer lets you create professional apps without having to be a professional software developer.

NEW uihyperlink Function: Add and configure clickable links in apps and on the App Designer canvas (R2021a)

NEW uitree Function: Add and configure check box trees in apps and on the App Designer canvas (R2021a)

NEW scroll Function: Scroll to a location within a table UI component programmatically (R2021a)

NEW App Designer: Zoom and pan in the Design View canvas; zoom, customize split-screen layouts, and control color and tab settings in the Code View editor (R2021a)

Icon Property: Specify custom icons for UI figure windows and toolbar push and toggle tools (R2020b)

Comparison Tool: Diff and merge App Designer apps (R2020b)

Custom UI Components: Create your own class to make composite UI components that encapsulate algorithms, as well as graphics and UI objects (R2020b)

exportapp and getframe Functions: Capture and save an image of an app (R2020b)

uicontextmenu Function: Add and configure context menus in App Designer and uifigure-based apps (R2020a)

uitoolbar Function: Add custom toolbars in App Designer and uifigure-based apps (R2020a, R2020b)

uihtml Function: Add HTML, JavaScript, or CSS content to apps (R2019b)

Data Import and Analysis

Access, organize, clean, and analyze data from a variety of sources.

NEW XML File I/O: Read and write XML files directly into tables, timetables and structs; create, transform, and query XML files using the MATLAB API for XML Processing (R2020b, R2021a)

NEW Remote Data I/O: Support for reading and writing remotely stored files using low-level file IO as well as through readtable, writetable, save, load and other high-level functions (R2019b, R2020b, R2021a)

NEW ts2timetable Function: Convert timeseries objects to timetables (R2021a)

Optimize Live Editor Task: Interactively create and solve optimization problems (R2020b)

Live Editor Tasks: Interactively preprocess data (R2019b) and manipulate tables and timetables (R2020a) with tasks that automatically generate MATLAB code

Grouping Workflows: Perform group-based operations using grouptransform (R2018b), groupcounts (R2019a), and groupfilter (R2019b)

Datatype I/O: Use dedicated functions for reading and writing matrices, cell arrays, structs and timetables (R2019a, R2020b)

Parquet File Support: Read and write single or large collections of Parquet files (R2019a)

Data Visualization

Visualize your data with new plotting functions and customization capabilities.

NEW Create Plot Live Editor Task: Add plots to live scripts without writing any code (R2021a)

NEW bubblecloud Function: Visualize part-to-whole relationships (R2021a)

bubblechart, bubblechart3, and polarbubblechart Functions: Create bubble charts in 2-D, 3-D, and polar coordinates (R2020b)

swarmchart Function: Visualize distributions of discrete data (R2020b)

Titles, Subtitles, and Axis Labels: Add subtitles to plots, and align titles and axis labels with the plot box (R2020b)

boxchart Function: Create box plots to visualize grouped numeric data (R2020a)

exportgraphics and copygraphics Functions: Save and copy graphics with improved support for publishing workflows (R2020a)

tiledlayout Function: Position, nest, and change the grid size of layouts (R2020a)

Chart Container Class: Develop charts that display a tiling of Cartesian, polar, or geographic plot (R2020a)

NEW Datastores: Read all data from a datastore using parallel processing (R2021a)

ArrayDatastore Object: Create datastores from in-memory data (R2020b)

Datastore Write: Write large collections of data in datastores out to disk for data engineering and file-based workflows (R2020a)

Customize Tall Arrays: Author custom algorithms to operate on tall arrays in chunks or sliding windows (R2018b, R2019a)

Functions for Tall Arrays: Operate on tall arrays with more functions, including innerjoin, outerjoin, xcorr, svd, and wordcloud (R2018b, R2019a, R2019b)

Custom Datastore: Read from Hadoop-based databases using the custom datastore framework (R2019a)

FileDatastore Object: Read large custom files by importing the file in smaller portions (R2019a)

Datastores: Combine and transform datastores (R2019a)

NEW name=value syntax: Use name=value syntax for passing name-value arguments (R2021a)

NEW Class Diagram Viewer: Create graphical class diagrams to explore class details and share designs (R2021a)

pattern Object: Create patterns for text searching in strings (R2020b)

File Encoding: Improved support for non-ASCII character sets and cross-platform compatibility with default UTF-8 encoding for MATLAB files (R2020a)

Function Input Argument Validation: Declare function input arguments to simplify input error checking (R2019b, R2020b)

NEW Sparse Matrix Multiplication: Improved performance multiplying large sparse matrices (R2021a)

NEW Sparse Linear Systems: Improved performance solving sparse linear systems A*X = B with multicolumn B (R2021a)

spdiags Function: Improved performance constructing sparse banded matrices (R2020b)

uitree Function: Improved performance when creating many nodes in a tree (R2020b)

uilistbox Function: Improved performance when setting multiple items in a list box (R2020b)

Profiler: Investigate and improve the execution performance of your code visually using flame graphs (R2020a)

Live Editor: Improved performance in loops and animated plots (R2020a)

NEW Projects: List all referenced projects and impacted project files (R2021a)

NEW C++ Interface: Support for C++ language features including std::vector values and void* values (R2021a)

Python: Start and stop a Python interpreter from a MATLAB session (R2020b)

Code Compatibility Report: Code Compatibility Report includes warnings about unsupported functionality (R2020b)

Unit Testing Framework: Run tests in parallel on clusters and clouds (R2020b)

Out-of-Process Python Execution: Execute Python functions out-of-process to avoid library conflicts (R2019b)

Projects: Organize your work, automate tasks and processes, and collaborate with your team (R2019a)

C++ Interface: Call C++ library functions from MATLAB (R2019a)

Jenkins Plugin for MATLAB: Run MATLAB tests and generate test reports in formats such as JUnit, TAP, and Cobertura code coverage reports

New Reference Architectures: Deploy and run MATLAB on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (R2018b)

NEW Arduino: Use Nano 33 BLE Sense board (R2021a)

NEW Sensor Support: Use LSM and MPU sensors with Raspberry Pi unified server (R2021a)

NEW Raspberry Pi: Deploy with unified server (R2021a)

NEW Arduino: Arduino Engineering Kit examples included in Arduino support package (R2021a)

Raspberry Pi: Deploy MATLAB function on hardware from MATLAB Online (R2020b)

Acquire Webcam Image Live Editor Task: Interactively capture webcam images (R2020b)

Sensor Support: Use BNO055 Sensor with Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox, and Navigation Toolbox to estimate orientation (R2020b)

Arduino: Use IDE version 1.8.13 (R2021a)