The coming 10.3 version of Delphi introduces a very handy feature to the language, local inline variables with local scope and type inference.
The Delphi language in 10.3 has a fairly core change in the way it allows far more flexibility in the declaration of local variables, their scope and lifetime. This is a change that breaks a key tenet of the original Pascal language, but offers a…
With the coming 10.3 release, RAD Studio R&D and PM teams are making Delphi’s new directions in memory management official.
A few years back, when Embarcadero started building new Delphi compilers for platforms other than Windows there was a lot of discussion how…
Before 10.3 Rio, you couldn’t put other controls on top of a platform-native control like TWebBrowser or TMediaPlayer, The stacking of controls is referred to as Z-Order. This was especially annoying when used with the TMultiView (one of my favorite controls), because…
In recent RAD Studio releases, we’ve paid a lot of attention to the IDE’s user interface. In 10.2.2, we added a dark theme (one of the most popular changes we’ve made!) and updated the component icons.
In RAD Studio 10.3, we have a number of further UI upgrades we’re…
On October 17, I did an InterBase webinar on using Change Views to simplify data change tracking. Change Views allows you to reduce your network traffic, keep mobile data costs down and speed up your development time by syncing only the changes you subscribe to.
As your…
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You’re short on time, and cash, so where can you go to learn new skills to improve your app UIs? There are a ton of free, or nearly free, on-demand resources if you know where to look.
Enroll in free, or inexpensive, Online Courses:
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Over 20% of users abandon an application after using it the first time (per Localytics). How can you design your mobile app to avoid being one of these casualties?
Start out by designing your application with mobile in mind. You can’t just replicate your desktop…
What is AppAnalytics?
A few years ago, Embarcadero introduced the AppAnalytics technology, a simple and effective way to add in-app analytics to VCL and FMX applications using ready-to-use components and a paid SaaS offering for the AppAnalytics backend.
Since introducing…
I’m a big proponent of practical, usable UIs that are easy to understand and pleasant to look at. As an ongoing series, there are a number of blogs posts on UI design.
How To Design a Great UI
A practical approach to taking a mockup or first cut of a UI, and improving…
Welcome back! This is the third post on a series on practical UI design, an approach to creating usable, good-looking UIs when you are not a UX expert.
In Part 1, we looked at some basic principles of UI design, a typical UI design workflow, what it means for a UI to be…
