Delphi

Changing FireMonkey style at runtime

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November 21, 2013
Author: Pawe Gowacki Last month Sarina DuPont blogged about loading custom FireMonkey styles on a mobile device at runtime (“How to load custom styles at runtime“). That’s a very interesting approach to compile a custom style as a resource into the mobile…
Delphi

Creating an Overflow Menu on Android

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October 17, 2013
During my CodeRage 8 session I talked about creating an Action Bar with an Overflow menu, so I wanted to provide some step-by-step instructions. On Android, an Action Bar is atop(or top and bottomaligned) toolbar that is segmented into 4keyfunctional areas. One of those functional areas is an Overflow menu. The ‘Overflow’ popup menu is commonly used for additional…
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How to load custom styles at runtime

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October 16, 2013
During my session at CodeRage, I briefly talked about how to load custom styles at runtime. I wanted to elaborate on this topic and provide some detailed steps. In this example, we are creating a mobile app for iOS and Android that uses the ‘Jet’ Premium…
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Are you asking about app size? (by Delphi for Android)

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September 19, 2013
Author: Vsevolod L1433 You’re asking about app size? Not a news. Since Delphi 1 people’re asking “why Windows calculator is 33 kb, while Delphi version of the same exe is 300 kb”? Then and now it’s a question not about technology. Are you asking about the technology? Technology is so, that some additional megabytes give you cross-platform development tools, and…
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Playing Audio Clips on Android

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September 10, 2013
I have been working with our R&D team on the samples and snippets for RAD Studio XE5. Our mobile snippets are designed to showcase key functionality with just a couple of lines of code. Today I thought I would highlight our AudioPlayBack snippet. This snippet consists of…