RAD Studio in FireMonkey provides access to a variety of device sensors on Android and iOS. Six different demos show how to easily access a variety of these various sensors. The demos include the Gyroscope, Accelerometer, AccessCameraApp/CameraComponent, Location, and OrientationSensor. These demos make use of the TOrientationSensor, TLocationSensor, TMotionSensor, TCameraComponent, and…
Access FTDI, Prolific, USB, And Serial COM Ports With Firemonkey In Delphi 10 Berlin On Android And Windows
August 23, 2016
Author: Wolfgang_W_
Developer Erik Salaj over at WINSOFT has a whole suite of Com Port components for Firemonkey in Delphi and C++Builder. The various Com Port components give you access to the Com Port on Android, OSX, and Windows. It does not appear that there is any…
There are numerous embedded databases that can be used with Delphi and C++Builder. Embarcadero provides two embedded databases: InterBase ToGo and IBLite. The SQLite Consortium created SQLite, an embedded SQL database engine. Finally, there’s TFDMemTable, which can…
C++ Boot Camp: Game Development
August 1, 2016
Author: Aidan K7359
11-August-2016 / Day 4 of C++ Boot Camp is C++ Game Development hosted by Eli M., MVP, Developer and Entrepreneur from FMXExpress.com
Four different games with classic game mechanics will be demonstrated.
We will be also be covering topics such as App Tethering, utilizing TFrames to build your UI, using TRectangle as a light weight image object, accessing the device motion…
Using CMake with the free Embarcadero C++ compiler
July 19, 2016
Do you want to use CMake with the newly released free compiler? This post quickly runs you through installing both the compiler and CMake, and shows an example build using two C++ files and the corresponding CMakeLists.txt.
CMake is a popular third-party build tool.
Ensuring…
Author: Jmac61
Let’s make your C++ VCL applications talkative 😀 May be another wife 😀
This is my first blog post here so I start with stimulating an old Delphi article http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/29583about Microsoft’s SAPI library for…
June 16 Webinar - RAD Server Application Deep Dive - Creating a Department Store Retail Solution
June 13, 2016
During this webinar you’ll learn how to develop and deploy a real world Department Store Retail application using Embarcadero RAD Server. The client app runs on smartphones and the server side executes on IIS production servers on premises and on Amazon.The content covered on this webinar goes deeper technically into the department store solution that was first presented as part of the…
Closing the Class Helpers Private Access Loophole
June 8, 2016
As many of you know, Embarcadero made a change to the Delphi compiler in 10.1 Berlin to close an existing bug that allowed access to private data of any class via a class helper. Developers who were leveraging this hack would need a migration strategy.
Private is……
Author: Sadaqat Ali
There are a number of Firemonkey component sets available for Delphi Berlin that can help you get ahead when developing for Android and iOS. Consider component developers to be another member of your team: they do the groundwork so you can focus on the…
Using the Floating Form Designer in Delphi
April 19, 2016
The Floating Form Designer is often commented as one of the reasons many developers still love using Delphi 7after almost 14 years. In that time Delphi has moved on a long way,firstly moving to theGalileo(docked) IDE, added unicode,64bit compiler, Generics, Attributes, RTTI (or reflection for .Net people), FireMonkey, cross platform compilers for Mac, iOS and Android…