News

Rad Studio Quality Portal user guide

Author: Juan Antonio Ruzafa Embarcadero’s Quality Portalprovides a community process for resolving, clarifying, and tracking quality issues regarding Embarcadero’s products and services.Embarcadero Developer Network(EDN) members can create bug reports and feature requests, view other members’ reports, and comment and vote on the reports most important to them.
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Delphi

Using existing ClientDataSet data in FDMemTable

Author: Davide Rubbiani For today’s #DelphiWeek post, I thought I would highlight how you can use existing ClientDataSet (.cds) data in FDMemTable. With this approach, you can also save existing .cds data as JSON, for example. In this tutorial, I am going to create a new application, but you could also use this approach with an existing application. Create a new Multi-Device Application…
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C++

Using Custom Endpoints to create a BaaS enabled Desktop application for sending notifications to your mobile apps

I previously wrote a blog post on how to send notifications via our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support in Delphi to your mobile devices on iOS and Android. This blog post assumes that you followed the steps in my previous blog post and in the referenced docwiki articles. In this post, I thought I would cover how to send notifications from BaaS enabled FireMonkey or VCL Desktop apps to your…
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Delphi

Lazy Form Creation Design Pattern

Author: Pawe Gowacki One of the most important things about any application, and especially mobile apps, is short start-up time. End user does not like to wait for too long for an app to start. In some cases, if the start-up time is excessively long a mobile app may not be…
Delphi

Creating an InterBase database on the fly with FireDAC

Recently I have been creating a number of applications using InterBase on iOS and Android using FireDAC components to talk to the database. One route to achieving this is by create the database file and table structure either via iSQL or using IBConsole GUI first before using it in your project. Once you have the database file (which is simple enough to do) you then have to deploy the file along…
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