The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest topics in the tech world today. The ability to connect everyday objects to the internet and control them with an application or your voice is a true game-changer for end users. With all the connectedness though, there are new challenges that have emerged for the mobile devices that bind this all together. Mobile applications have become a…
August 2018 Roadmap Commentary from Product Management
August 7, 2018
2018 has been a very exciting year so far for Embarcadero. In our roadmap, you can find the key features that we’ve planned for calendar year 2018/2019. Before we get to the details of our updated roadmap, we wanted to recap what we’ve delivered so far:
Back in March, we…
Opening a PDF on Android with Delphi
August 3, 2018
Intents on Android using API 26 to open PDF documents.
The Google Play store recently updated its requirements, so new apps were submitted with an API level of 26 as the target. While this was relatively simple to accomplish by updating the AndroidManifest.Template, the…
Create App Store ready apps with Community Edition
July 26, 2018
Start building visually stunning multi-device applications right away with these great tools accessible from the IDE’s Welcome Page.
TIP: If you accidentally close the Welcome Page, you can reopen it by going to View > Welcome Page.
This article covers the following:
Guided Tour in the IDE
Code Samples and Mobile Snippets
Stunning, ready-to-use Application…
Learn to program C++ with C++Builder Community Edition: #5 Operators, and final application!
July 24, 2018
Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Learning C++ with C++Builder Starter.Last time, we had a calculator and numerical input, demonstrating using boost::optional, smart pointers, and more. This post is shorter: it will finish the calculator with operators…
Learn to program C++ with C++Builder Community Edition: #3, Design, Architecture, and UIs
July 24, 2018
Welcome! Last timewe looked at the IDE, projects, a simple first application, and basic use of the debugger. Today we’re actually going to write code!
Weare going to write a scientific calculator. It’s a useful, real-world app. You might put…
Welcome to the second blog post in the ‘Learning to program with C++Builder’ series – a set of five articles taking you from knowing nothing about C++ to writing a real-world, useful application. The first entry covered installing C++Builder Community. Now it’s time to start using it! Today, we’ll cover the tools you use, creating your first app, and basic debugging.
Understanding…
If you are using FireDAC and building your SQL queries manually you may be using more verbose code than is needed. FireDAC has a feature called Macros which allows you to do a variable substitution in your SQL query similar to parameter substitution but for raw SQL. However…
A vulkan header generator for Delphi.
July 19, 2018
Author: Craig Chapman
What is darkVulkanGen?
A handful of months back, I began working on a game engine for Delphi named darkGlass.
see:
http://chapmanworld.com/darkglass/
https://github.com/chapmanworld/DarkGlass
At that time I’d intended to write the rendering part of…
Learn to Program with Community Edition
July 18, 2018
Author: Rebekah D
Get started programming with our Community Editions!
Community Edition is our full-featured and free IDE to build applications for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS from a single codebase using the robust and easy-to-learn Delphi language. It’s the perfect way to get started learning a new programming language or explore multi-device app development. Embarcadero’s…