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iPhone X and iPad Pro resolution support on Delphi 10.3.1

With Delphi 10.3.1, you can build applications for the iPhone X series devices and iPad Pro with native resolution support. To support the newer resolutions, the overall configuration and some of the image names have changed. While this applies to new projects, existing projects opened with 10.3.1 require a couple of quick project changes. Go to the Deployment Manager window Click on the Revert…
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RAD Studio 10.3.1 HTTP and SOAP Clients Enhancements

In RAD Studio 10.3, Embarcadero moved the SOAP client implementation to the HTTP client library for all platforms, given the issues support HTTPS with the previous architecture (based on Indy) on mobile platforms. On Windows, there was already a native implementation, but…
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Always New, Always Delphi - New Features since Delphi 2009

The story has it, on February 14th, 1995, in San Francisco, whenAnders Hejlsberg was presenting at the Delphi launchsome of the staff from Microsoft fell out of their chairs. Everyone was so blown away Anders received a standing ovation. There was a reason Microsoft hired him the next year to becomeaDistinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow. He went on to design J++, C#…
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Key Improvements in RAD Studio 10.3.1

On February 14th, Delphi’s birthday, we released RAD Studio 10.3.1, a point release to 10.3 Rio. We have a number of great improvements this release I’d like to highlight. RAD Server Console UI RAD Server is our platform for building services, such as REST/JSON.
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Expanded iOS 12 and iPhone X series support in 10.3.1

In RAD Studio 10.3.1, we have expanded our support for iOS 12 and the iPhone X series devices. This was done to address the upcoming March 2019 App Store requirement from Apple, which requires that apps are built with the iOS 12.1 SDK and fully support the iPhone XS Max and iPad Pro. The changes include: Info.plist updates to account for new image sizes  Additional app icon and splash screen…
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What’s New in FireDAC for Firebird in RAD Studio 10.3.1

Among the many databases FireDAC supports, one commonly used by our customers isFirebird(the open source spin-off of InterBase). FireDAC used to have a single driver for Firebird and InterBase, given they still have a significant degree of compatibility after…
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New VCL and FireMonkey Styles in RAD Studio 10.3.1

In today’s blog post, I wanted to highlight the 15 new custom VCL Windows and FireMonkey multi-device styles that we added to Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10.3.1.Many of the styles come in different color variants, and Bitmap Style Designer templates are also…
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New Productivity Tooling in RAD Studio 10.3.1: Bookmarks

In RAD Studio 10.3.1, we’ve added two new really useful productivity tools to the IDE, which improve navigation: finding your code, and moving around within your code. These were previously third-party tools that were very popular withthousands of Delphi and C++Builder developers, and which we’re glad to integrate into the IDE itself to bring these useful features to every…
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