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Deep Space Rocks Runtime Customizable Mobile Arcade Game For Delphi 10.2 Tokyo

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September 9, 2017
Embarcadero has four mobile arcade game projects for Delphi in Object Pascal available for free over on GitHub. All of the projects run on Android, IOS, OSX, and Windows. One of the projects is called Space Rocks and I modified this project to allow the player to customize the game at runtime (for more info about Space Rocks check out this blog post). The modified game is called Deep Space Rocks.
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Simulating Transparent Dialog on FireMonkey Mobile

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September 1, 2017
Author: Pawe Gowacki Delivering great user experience is probably one most important thing in app design. Certain ideas that seem to be easy to achieve in the conceptual phase of development, when an app is still a bunch of wireframes and sketches, could be more difficult to implement then expected. Today I was helping in providing the “transparent modal dialog” experience to an…
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Container Accordion on Delphi FMX

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August 26, 2017
Author: Landerson Gomes Watch this video tutorial on how to create a retractable container using Delphi Firemonkey. (In Portuguese) Subscribe to the channel:https://www.youtube.com/landersongomes6 Follow my personal blog with various tips from…
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Why I choose Delphi

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August 17, 2017
Author: Jens Fudge Why do I use Delphi I have been using Delphi since the first version came out back in 1995. My first encounter with Delphi was with Cary Jensen doing a presentation in Copenhagen. I was a student at the time, and didn’t really have the money to attend the presentation, which was something like $250. Luckily my brother invited me. The $250 included a licensed copy of Delphi…
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Easy Add Custom Component Icons in Delphi

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August 3, 2017
Author: Pawe Gowacki I have just recently discovered a super easy way of adding custom icons to Delphi components. Traditionally you had to start from a rectangular bitmap of a specific size and color depth and then use Image Editor. This is documented in many places…
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My "Expert Delphi" book published!

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July 23, 2017
Author: Pawe Gowacki My “Expert Delphi” book has been published by PACKT Publishing and is currently available for a limited time for just $10at https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/expert-delphi.The book is about how to become developer…
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New free VCL Style from DelphiStyles.com available in GetIt

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June 29, 2017
DelphiStyles.comsells custom VCL and FireMonkey Styles. They are offering a free custom VCL Windows Style for RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo customers through the GetIt Package Manager (Tools > GetIt Package Manager). After downloading the style, you can find it under C:UsersYourUsernameDocumentsEmbarcaderoStudio19.0CatalogRepositoryAquaLightSlate2-1.0 Select the .vsf file and copy it into…
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