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Webinar Replay: Embeddable Databases for Mobile Apps: Stress-Free Solutions with InterBase

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April 24, 2018
When it comes to developing mobile applications, keeping data on your device is a must-have feature, but can still be risky. With embedded InterBase, you can deploy high-performance multi-device applications that maintain 256-bit encryption, have a small footprint and need little, if any, administration. What can participants expect to learn: Using InterBase in your mobile apps is easier…
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Why create mobile apps in C++

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April 5, 2018
There are a wide variety of languages used for mobile development: Swift, Objective C, Java, Kotlin, Delphi, C#, and C++. What are the reasons to choose C++? Consider a language along three axes: expressiveness, conciseness, and performance. An expressive language allows…
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New in 10.2.3: Using CMake with Ninja

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March 20, 2018
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 specifically Ninja for fast parallel builds. What are CMake Generators? CMake is a compiler- and platform-independent…
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New in 10.2.3: CMake Support for iOS and Android

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March 19, 2018
We’ve introduced some great new features for C++Builder in 10.2.3.  Last week, I wrote about CMake support for our compilers. That post covered what CMake is, and how to use it for Windows, both Win32 and Win64.  If you haven’t read it, please do; it’s…
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New in 10.2.3: CMake Support

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March 15, 2018
Avery exciting feature in C++Builder 10.2.3 is support forusing CMake with our compilers. Let’s dig in! This post is the first in a series on CMake, and will cover: What CMake is How to write a CMakeLists.txt file How to build a project on Windows What is CMake? You can think ofCMakeas a platform-independent, compiler-independent,project format for C++…
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Media file meta-data on Android in Delphi.

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March 12, 2018
Author: Craig Chapman One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning. “I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or NTSC.” This seemed like a fun challenge, so I thought I’d write a…
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Delphi 23 and Delphi 10.2.3

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February 14, 2018
Today is Delphi’s 23rd birthday. The product was launched on Valentine day in 1995 in San Francisco (andI had the luck to be there, as I covered in the past). 23 years is a lot of time for people. It is a incredibly long time for technologies. It is hard to find…