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 maintain the backend services yourself. This includes support for being able to upload images to your BaaS account using RAD Studio…
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…
AppTethering Leaderboard - Passing Objects Remotely and using Resources
June 5, 2014
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 with a little help from generics along the way.
The following code uses a class called TFoo that has a Foo and a Fee property…
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…
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.
In this post, I thought I would cover how to send notifications from BaaS enabled FireMonkey or VCL Desktop apps to your…
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…
In RAD Studio XE6, we introduced support for remote push notifications with our BaaS (Backend as a Service) integration. We include components for Kinvey and Parse, two popular BaaS providers, right out of the box.
Our BAAS framework in RAD Studio XE6 is based on our REST…
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 accepted into an app store.
I have been building a lot of mobile apps recently for both Android and iOS in Delphi and found…
