A lot happened for the GetIt Package Manager in November.With the new release of RAD Studio 10.3 Rio the GetIt Package Manager received an overhaul, including a facelift. And with a new release we found a lot ofpackages updated with more updates coming!Want your Package, Library, Trial, or Open Source Project in GetIt? Justfill out this form.
New and Updated in November…
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…
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…
GetIt is the package manager built into RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder. It includes 214 packages in8 different categories.
38 Library packages
121 Component packages
53 Internet of Things components
60 Trials
4 Industry Templates
2 IDE Plugins
3 Styles
26 Sample projects
New and updated packages get added to GetIt all the time. Here are a few of the recent changes and the most popular…
Blogs on Embarcadero Community: Multi Tier Development and Enterprise SKU
September 25, 2018
I haven’t blogged much here in September, because Iwrote two blogposts on the Embarcadero community site (given they were more official blog posts — I generally blog on my personal blogs and the content is surfaced on the Embarcadero community):
…
You have a great idea for an app, but how do you successfully get from idea to a well designed, functional app your users love? It starts with design wireframing and prototyping, a faster iterative process that requires less coding effort up front so you know what works and…
The FireDAC Enterprise Connectors (#FDEC) by CData and Embarcadero make it really easy to work with various APIs just like you would any SQL database. For example if you want to publish the results of a query to a Google Sheet (which I find incredibly useful) then it is just a few FireDAC components and you are off to the races. You might run into an API limit though.
What is an API limit? Most…
IBLite is the localversion of the InterBase database you canembed in your mobile and desktop applications. RAD Studio has full deployment support, so you can easily deploy the required file with your app, both for debug and for store deployment (see image below).
Let’s say for example that you want to create a heart rate monitor app. You’ll need information about the heart rate GATT profile to connect to andcollect data from the bluetooth enabled HR monitor device.
GATT profilesare high level…
Despite all the push for web and mobile development, which are certainly growing a lot, Windows desktop development is far from death. In fact, at the recent Build 2018 conference Microsoft reported that over the last year the developers using Visual Studio for building desktop applications has doubled. On our side, we know the the majority of the RAD Studio customers are still maintaining a lot…
