These days, many app developers are looking into building their mobile apps to cater to multiple platforms. It is essential to create an app that will be able to operate on multiple platforms like Android, iOS, Windows and so on. Creating cross platform apps can be a very challenging process, especially for mobile devices, but it can bring many advantages.
Despite the challenges, picking the…
Text is everywhere! Text is not always where we want it, or in the format we need. We often find ourselves needing the text from images. You might have a scanned document containing financial information like an invoice you want to input into an accounts system, or maybe you…
Machine Learning is one of the hottest software development topics right now. The algorithms and techniques which enable machine learning have begun to really mature and have graduated from ‘interesting ideas’ into providing genuine power and permitting…
Which target platforms do Delphi and Electron support?
The “Discovering The Best Cross-Platform Framework Through Benchmarking” whitepaper evaluates two frameworks supporting multi-platform desktop application development: Delphi and Electron.
Delphi
Delphi, encapsulated in the Rapid Application Development (RAD) Studio IDE, is Embarcadero Technologies’ flagship product. A proprietary…
An InterBase VAR license is simply a legal agreement between you and Embarcadero that allows you to redistribute InterBase. The benefits of this agreement are outlined below.
The Benefits of Being a VAR
There are no registration and licensing headaches. VARs typically…
One of the features added to the VCL library in Delphi 11 is the ability to handle Windows WM_SETREDRAW message easily with two specific methods added to the TWinControl class: LockDrawing and UnlockDrawing
I was going over my to do list earlier this week and found a not…
A new patch (or hotfix) for RAD Studio 11.1 is now available. The patch addresses a problem that occurs when debugging Win32 apps on Windows 11, in which the IDE appears to freeze at times. When evaluating watches with side effects, opening the Threads view to switch threads, attaching to a process, and performing other common debugging actions, you may notice the freeze. The problem is caused by…
Bookmarks and Navigator, originally known as the Parnassus plugins, are some of our most-requested IDE addons. We’re very glad to let you know they are now available in GetIt for RAD Studio 11. To install, go to the Tools menu in the IDE, GetIt Package Manager, and…
Apps make the most part of our lives and their usage is only going to increase. No wonder app downloads increased worldwide by more than 63 percent to 230 billion in 2021. There are countless uses of apps found in our daily lives. With apps, individuals can measure daily…
Born in 1985, the C++ programming language is still very popular and widely used today. C++ programmers are in demand across almost all fields and niches of software development, from business and consumer apps to databases and operating systems. Being a relatively simple but powerful programming language, and thanks to high demand for C++ programmers, C++ has always been quite popular among…
