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New in 10.2.3: FireMonkey UI Templates - Profile Screens

Delphi and RAD Studio 10.2.3 include 18 new FireMonkey UI templates, designed to highlight FMX’s multi-device capabilities, showcase best practices, and help new users get started quicker. They showcase UI paradigms that mobile application developers need in today’s applications. This blog post focuses on the three new profile screen GUI templates, available for download in GetIt (Tools…
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Database and FireDAC Enhancements in RAD Studio 10.2.3

I already blogged about RAD Server changes and RTL fixes in the Delphi, C++ Builder and RAD Studio 10.2.3 update. Another area that has received attention is the database support in general, and FireDAC in particular. Below is a list with some of the most notable…
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Four Humble Ideas for Embarcadero

Author: NickHodges I hereby humbly offer the following four suggestions to improve the Delphi product and community. Acquire the Assets of DevJet Have you guys seen the stuff done by DevJet? This is some seriously excellent work. They have two main projects —…
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C++ Builder 10.2.3 - CMake and Ninja Command-Line Support

Introduction CMake is a popular C++ build tool. RAD Studio 10.2.3 Tokyo provides support for building CMake projects on the command line using RAD Studio compilers. 10.2.3 also specifically supports using Ninja with CMake, allowing for very fast parallel builds. This…
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darkUnicode codec for Delphi

Author: Craig Chapman Another library to drop out of my Dark Glass development project today is my unicode codec (now named darkUnicode). https://github.com/chapmanworld/darkUnicode This simple class can be used to encode and decode unicode code-points by hand (independent of RTL functions to do the same), and I’ve used it previously to create my own unicode text buffer and stream…
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New in 10.2.3: Using CMake with Ninja

One big new feature in 10.2.3 is support for building with CMake. If you haven’t already, read the previous two posts: introduction to CMake and building with Windows, and building for iOS and Android. Today I’d like to cover using CMake generators, and…
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RTL Enhancements in RAD Studio 10.2.3

As listed in the “What’s New in 10.2.3” DocWiki page,http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/10.2_Tokyo_-_Release_3, among the changes, new features, and fixesin the latest update of 10.2 Tokyo. One of the added features isMIME support improvements for the REST Client library. This was achieved by adding a new internal TMimeTypes class to handle the…
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