C++

Using Custom Endpoints to create a BaaS enabled Desktop application for sending notifications to your mobile apps

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April 17, 2014
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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C++

Remote push notifications on Android with RAD Studio XE6

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April 16, 2014
In RAD Studio XE6, we introduced support for remote push notifications with our BaaS (Backend as a Service) integration. We include components for Kinvey and Parse, two popular BaaS providers, right out of the box. Our BAAS framework in RAD Studio XE6 is based on our REST…
News

How to Fix MSBuild Error MSB4006

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March 3, 2014
Author: Craig Stuntz You may encounter an error which looks like this: MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target “ResolveProjectReferences” [MyProjectName\MyProjectName.csproj] …when running MSBuild from the command line. This error happens when: You run MSBuild on a machine with .NET 4.5 installed and You build a project…
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Delphi

Lazy Form Creation Design Pattern

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February 19, 2014
Author: Pawe Gowacki One of the most important things about any application, and especially mobile apps, is short start-up time. End user does not like to wait for too long for an app to start. In some cases, if the start-up time is excessively long a mobile app may not be…
Delphi

Creating an InterBase database on the fly with FireDAC

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February 14, 2014
Recently I have been creating a number of applications using InterBase on iOS and Android using FireDAC components to talk to the database. One route to achieving this is by create the database file and table structure either via iSQL or using IBConsole GUI first before…
C++

Using the REST Debugger will help you prototype your Delphi and C++ REST apps

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January 17, 2014
As part of the new addition of the REST Client Library components in Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE5, we also include a REST Debugger so that you can explore REST Services and use it to help prototype the property settings for your app’s REST Client components. We also provide the source code to the REST Debugger and you can build other platform versions (Win64 and OSX) of the…
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C++

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…
Delphi

You can easily location enable your Delphi VCL Windows apps

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December 9, 2013
Author: Michael Gillen Sensor support was originally added to Delphi a year ago. The sensor APIs are defined in the System.Sensors unit name scope and can be use in your Windows VCL and FM apps. This blog post will show you how you can easily location enable your Delphi VCL Windows applications. You’ll need a GPS device for your Windows computer (some of the recent Intel based…
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