Last year, Google deprecated Google Cloud Messaging, also known as GCM. We have built-in support in FireMonkey for GCM.
Google has announced that the “The GCM server and client APIs are deprecated and will be removed as soon as May 29, 2019. Migrate GCM apps to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), which inherits the reliable and scalable GCM infrastructure, plus many new features.”
In this…
On behalf of Embarcadero, the RAD Studio product management team is in charge of continuously updating the product development roadmap for Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio. As you can see in our official roadmap blog post, we have just released a new version of the…
RAD Studio Roadmap May 2019
May 23, 2019
With this article, the RAD Studio PM team is introducing an updated roadmap for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio. This May 2019 roadmap includes plans for the next 12 months. Alongside, we have also published a May 2019 Roadmap PM Commentary blog post, with more details and…
In early versions of Delphi and RAD Studio, a user could change some of the current project options and (with a check box) save them as default, that is as the initial options for any future project. It was also possible to change this configuration by selecting the Project…
RAD Studio 10.3.1 HTTP and SOAP Clients Enhancements
February 22, 2019
In RAD Studio 10.3, Embarcadero moved the SOAP client implementation to the HTTP client library for all platforms, given the issues support HTTPS with the previous architecture (based on Indy) on mobile platforms. On Windows, there was already a native implementation, but…
Key Improvements in RAD Studio 10.3.1
February 21, 2019
On February 14th, Delphi’s birthday, we released RAD Studio 10.3.1, a point release to 10.3 Rio. We have a number of great improvements this release I’d like to highlight.
RAD Server Console UI
RAD Server is our platform for building services, such as REST/JSON.
Expanded iOS 12 and iPhone X series support in 10.3.1
February 20, 2019
In RAD Studio 10.3.1, we have expanded our support for iOS 12 and the iPhone X series devices. This was done to address the upcoming March 2019 App Store requirement from Apple, which requires that apps are built with the iOS 12.1 SDK and fully support the iPhone XS Max…
What’s New in FireDAC for Firebird in RAD Studio 10.3.1
February 19, 2019
Among the many databases FireDAC supports, one commonly used by our customers isFirebird(the open source spin-off of InterBase). FireDAC used to have a single driver for Firebird and InterBase, given they still have a significant degree of compatibility after…
New VCL and FireMonkey Styles in RAD Studio 10.3.1
February 18, 2019
In today’s blog post, I wanted to highlight the 15 new custom VCL Windows and FireMonkey multi-device styles that we added to Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10.3.1.Many of the styles come in different color variants, and Bitmap Style Designer templates are also…
New Productivity Tooling in RAD Studio 10.3.1: Bookmarks
February 18, 2019
In RAD Studio 10.3.1, we’ve added two new really useful productivity tools to the IDE, which improve navigation: finding your code, and moving around within your code. These were previously third-party tools that were very popular withthousands of Delphi and…


