During my session at CodeRage, I briefly talked about how to load custom styles at runtime. I wanted to elaborate on this topic and provide some detailed steps.
In this example, we are creating a mobile app for iOS and Android that uses the ‘Jet’ Premium Style.I added both styles via the resources dialog in the IDE and used the TStyleManager.LoadFromResource method to load either…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
The lifecycle of a mobile app is more complex and different from a desktop app. On a mobile device an application runs either in the foreground or in the background. When a phone calls arrive or when user opens another app, our app is going to…
Author: Joshua P7819
Jeff Overcash, TeamB member and the maintainer of the InterBase Express Components (IBX) for the past 13.5 years, has created a Delphi wrapper unit for Android text to speech functionality. Jeff has also created a simple demo example that allows you to…
Author: Vsevolod L1433
You’re asking about app size? Not a news. Since Delphi 1 people’re asking “why Windows calculator is 33 kb, while Delphi version of the same exe is 300 kb”? Then and now it’s a question not about technology. Are you asking about the technology? Technology is so, that some additional megabytes give you cross-platform development tools, and…
Simple Database and Data access in Delphi XE5 for iOS and Android
September 18, 2013
Author: Blaise Þ
With the release of Delphi XE5 for iOS and Android developers now have several options for connecting to databases and data both on the devices themselves as well as via our DataSnap multi-tier technology; REST application services, REST, SOAP, and XML…
I have been working with our R&D team on the samples and snippets for RAD Studio XE5. Our mobile snippets are designed to showcase key functionality with just a couple of lines of code.
Today I thought I would highlight our AudioPlayBack snippet.
This snippet consists of…
Author: J T403
Printing from an Android device requires a little bit more setup than in iOS where you simply connect to an AirPrint capable printer (like my Epson XP-400). However, Android printing appears to work with any Wifi printer (or PC connected printer), so its more flexible. Basically, it consists of three steps.
First, download and install Google CloudPrint onto your device.
Second…
I’ve been using the windows API call ShellExec for years to pass in the file name of a file I want to launch programatically with the default application on Windows; but I am now creating an application for use on Windows and Mac with FireMonkey for the upcoming season…
All of our modern PCs, Smartphones, Tablets and other devices include more than just a screen, keyboard, mouse, memory, and storage. The devices We use include sensors for location, orientation, acceleration, ambient light, etc. My Samsung Slate Series 7 is a hybrid or…
Author: David Clegg
Reading Anders Ohlsson’s latest blog post about using iOS APIs we don’t wrap reminded me of another couple of helper classes that I created, and which ship with the RAD Studio XE4 samples.
The first of these is the TAnonymousThread<T> generic class (in <samples installation directory>Delphi\RTL\CrossPlatform Utils\AnonThread.pas), and is designed to make…
