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FireUI Multi-Device Designer and working with Views

In RAD Studio XE7, we introduced the FireUI Multi-Device Designer. FireUI makes it easy to create user interfaces across multiple devices using a master form to share all user interface code, and then optimize inherited views for each target platform and device. Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7 provide a set of predefined views, including Windows Desktop, Surface Pro Tablet, Mac…
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Bluetooth LE support in RAD Studio XE7

RAD Studio XE7’s integrated wireless support (Bluetooth and Wifi) works with thousands of consumer and industry specific devices. RAD Studio’s approach makes it easy to integrate virtually any device into the app user experience, and even support multiple device…
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Developer Direct 2014 Mobile School: Lesson 3 Slides and Replays

Author: Wayne S8181 Monday, July 14, 2014: Lesson 3 – Accessing Local Storage and Data In this lesson, we explore local storage covering a range of options including using INI files and local document storage. This lesson will also show how to use FireDAC database access components to connect to and use local SQLite, InterBase IBLite and IBToGo. You will understand the core concepts when…
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Mobile User Interface Design: Navigation Drawer

Drawer menus are very popular since they allow you to take advantage of more screen real estate when building your app. The main application menu is hidden by default, and invoked by tapping on a menu item or swiping left/right. This type of UI can be seen in many…
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Adding user account creation to your BaaS enabled apps

In RAD Studio XE6, we introduced our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support. This includes components for both Kinvey and Parse. Part of our component pack is the TBackendUsers component which is designed to be hooked into either the ParseProvider or KinveyProvider…
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Finding your Tethered Apps

Author: Vincent P596 RAD Studio XE6, Delphi XE6 and C++Builder XE6 include support for tethering your VCL and FMX apps together. This blog post shows you how to display all of the tethered apps that you can find on your subnet. App Tethering includes two components…
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Using Custom Endpoints to create a BaaS enabled Desktop application for sending notifications to your mobile apps

I previously wrote a blog post on how to send notifications via our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support in Delphi to your mobile devices on iOS and Android. This blog post assumes that you followed the steps in my previous blog post and in the referenced docwiki articles. In this post, I thought I would cover how to send notifications from BaaS enabled FireMonkey or VCL Desktop apps to your…
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