Delphi

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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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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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 Style.I added both styles via the resources dialog in the IDE and used the TStyleManager.LoadFromResource method to load either…
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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 the following 4 components: TToolbar 2 TSpeedButtons parented to the toolbar TMediaPlayer The toolbar Align property…
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New "TOSVersion" type in Delphi XE2

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August 31, 2011
Author: Tóth Erik Delphi XE2 is probably the most significant release since Delphi 1. The number of new features is amazing and probably the biggest, most important one is FireMonkey – a brand new business application development platform that let you use Delphi or C++ to write applications that natively run on Windows and Mac OS. If you are writing an application that is designed to…
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