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Using Apilayer REST APIs from Delphi

As you might have seen online, Idera (Embarcadero parent company) recently acquired apilayer, a company offering a number of REST API micro-services, ranging from IP address geolocation to email and phone number checks, from financial information to weather and flight tracking. You can find a list of the company products at https://apilayer.com/. Each product has itw own web site, where you…
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New FireUI App Preview on Play Store

When FireMonkey introduced the FireUI Preview a few releases back, the application was available in the Google and Apple stores, to simplify the deployment to a device. The same app is also a demo available as source code, but that requires a few configuration steps to be…
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Apple Platforms Patch for RAD Studio 10.4.1

We have just released a new patch focused on improving RAD Studio 10.4.1 support for XCode 12, iOS 14 and macOS 11 Big Sur (Intel): these are operating systems and tools which were not available when 10.4.1 shipped. Specifically, the patch offers fixes for a Delphi exception issue on macOS 11 Big Sur Intel (which was also affecting PAServer when running on that platform, meaning this patch…
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RAD Studio November 2020 Roadmap PM Commentary

by Marco Cantu, David Millington and Sarina DuPont Introduction The Embarcadero RAD Studio product management team regularly updates the product development roadmap for Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio. As you can see in our official roadmap blog post, we have just…
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Delphi Compiler And LSP Patch for RAD Studio 10.4.1

Embarcadero has just released a new patch for RAD Studio 10.4.1. This includes Delphi compiler improvements and Delphi LSP improvements. The patch is available in GetIt, and the RAD Studio IDE Welcome page should indicate its availability. The patch is also going to be available in the my.embarcadero.com customers download portal. Read on to learn more about this patch and the two GetIt packages…
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New GetIt Web Portal

Since introducing the GetIt Package Manager in RAD Studio XE8, Embarcadero has been focusing on making it a great tool for distributing additional libraries, components, tools, samples, demo projects, styles and more to RAD Studio customers. We use it to distribute…
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Addressing the Problem of the Missing dbxConnections.ini File

There is an issue with RAD Studio 10.4.x related with dbExpress configuration, that you can work around by creating a new configuration file. When you install RAD Studio 10.4 (or 10.4.1) or Delphi or C++Builder, there is an error in the installation script that causes a configuration file to be missing. The lack of this file, that the IDE expects, causes a few errors reported for example…
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