Author: David P
This error message can occur when trying to deploy a mobile application to Android if you recently updated theAndroid SDK version that is being used by the IDE. Google recently changed the package and location of zipalign in SDK Rev. 23 and the IDE is no longer able to find the file. The full error message in RAD Studiois:
[PAClient Error] Error: E2820…
Mobile User Interface Design: Navigation Drawer
July 8, 2014
Drawer menus are very popular since they allow you to take advantage of more screen real estate when building your app. The main application menu is hidden by default, and invoked by tapping on a menu item or swiping left/right. This type of UI can be seen in many…
In Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE6, we integrate with leading Backend as a Service (BaaS) providers to add functionality and platform services to your applications. With BaaS, you get easy access to common services in the cloud without having to build or…
Mobile User Interface Design: Home Screen Navigation
June 16, 2014
Author: Carlos V17533
When it comes to mobile UI design, there are several key design paradigms. I covered the different mobile UI design patterns in my recent C++ Mobile Day session.
Today, I thought I would write a quick tutorial on how to create your own Home Screen Navigation using Delphi, C++Builder or RAD Studio XE6.
App Home Screen Navigation Key Features
• Images arranged in a grid…
AppTethering opens up a range of powerful features for coupled applications. Beyond the basic features for calling remote actions (which is rather cool and quick to setup) it is also possible to share resources between applications.
To give you an example I have built a…
Ever wanted to take an Object into a format that is easily persisted and back? Well now you can. New in XE6 is the REST.JSON unit. This allows you access to TJSON a class with some very helpful class methods. Using TJSON you can convert an object to a JSON string and back…
In RAD Studio XE6, we introduced our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support. This includes components for both Kinvey and Parse. Part of our component pack is the TBackendUsers component which is designed to be hooked into either the ParseProvider or KinveyProvider component.
My sample application that I am building as part of this tutorial will allow me to create a user account on either Kinvey.com…
Finding your Tethered Apps
April 28, 2014
Author: Vincent P596
RAD Studio XE6, Delphi XE6 and C++Builder XE6 include support for tethering your VCL and FMX apps together. This blog post shows you how to display all of the tethered apps that you can find on your subnet. App Tethering includes two components…
Using Custom Endpoints to create a BaaS enabled Desktop application for sending notifications to your mobile apps
April 17, 2014
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.
…
Author: Nikolay M4446
One of the innovations in XE6, it’s a method EvaluateJavaScript in the component TWebBrowser. This method allowing execute JavaScript on the loaded page and add interactivity to our applications.
On the site developers.google.com contains many examples of embedding maps on the page. I chose the example for paving the route from point A to point B. And as an example of…