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Access FTDI, Prolific, USB, And Serial COM Ports With Firemonkey In Delphi 10 Berlin On Android And Windows

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August 23, 2016
Author: Wolfgang_W_ Developer Erik Salaj over at WINSOFT has a whole suite of Com Port components for Firemonkey in Delphi and C++Builder. The various Com Port components give you access to the Com Port on Android, OSX, and Windows. It does not appear that there is any support for IOS though. You can communication with all kinds of different devices using the Com Port like printers, sensors…
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Using the new Windows 10 TMultiView mode in your FireMonkey applications

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September 9, 2015
TMultiView is a smart menu component for FireMonkey applications that makes it really easy to create app navigation that automatically adjusts itself depending on form factor, orientation and target platform. TMultiView is a container component which means that you can parent many different components to it, such as a top aligned TToolbar or a client aligned TListview. Depending on device and…
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New FireMonkey Media Library Options in RAD Studio XE8

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June 15, 2015
RAD Studio XE8 provides new FireMonkey Media Library options. This includes the ability to automatically save pictures taken by the device camera (in your iOS and Android applications) to the on-device photo library. Today, I thought I would show you how to save photos taken with the device camera directly to your photo library by extending our ShareSheet code snippet demo that is included with…
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Fun with FireMonkey Gradients

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January 9, 2014
Author: Pawe Gowacki Everybody loves colours. Great apps should use colours in clever and original ways. I have been recently spending a lot of time using Delphi XE5 for designing screens for mobile apps and must admit that I really like the way how iOS 7 is using colours…
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Changing FireMonkey style at runtime

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November 21, 2013
Author: Pawe Gowacki Last month Sarina DuPont blogged about loading custom FireMonkey styles on a mobile device at runtime (“How to load custom styles at runtime“). That’s a very interesting approach to compile a custom style as a resource into the mobile app. This week there was another blog post by David I about the availability of the new great looking mobile FireMonkey…
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