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You can easily location enable your Delphi VCL Windows apps

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December 9, 2013
Author: Michael Gillen Sensor support was originally added to Delphi a year ago. The sensor APIs are defined in the System.Sensors unit name scope and can be use in your Windows VCL and FM apps. This blog post will show you how you can easily location enable your Delphi VCL Windows applications. You’ll need a GPS device for your Windows computer (some of the recent Intel based…
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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 app. This week there was another blog post by David I about the availability of the new great looking mobile FireMonkey…
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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…
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My "Secure DataSnap Development" CodeRage 8 session

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October 16, 2013
Author: Pawe Gowacki During my CodeRage 8 “Secure DataSnap Development” session I’m demonstrating different levels of security in DataSnap architecture. Communication Protocol: DataSnap supports three different communication protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS. Choosing the HTTPS protocol that is implemented using SSL (“Secure Sockets Layer”) adds encryption to the communication…
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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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Delphi XE5 Android Text to Speech example in CodeCentral

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September 28, 2013
Author: Joshua P7819 Jeff Overcash, TeamB member and the maintainer of the InterBase Express Components (IBX) for the past 13.5 years, has created a Delphi wrapper unit for Android text to speech functionality.  Jeff has also created a simple demo example that allows you to input some text into a TMemo and hear the text spoken on your Android device.  In a comment on the Delphi XE5 Android API…
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