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):
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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…
Webinar Replay: Embeddable Databases for Mobile Apps: Stress-Free Solutions with InterBase
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…
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…
Author: NickHodges
I hereby humbly offer the following four suggestions to improve the Delphi product and community.
Acquire the Assets of DevJet
Have you guys seen the stuff done by DevJet? This is some seriously excellent work. They have two main projects — Documentation Insight and Code Insight Plus — that are both excellent, polished, and incredibly useful. Code Insight…
