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Using Custom Styles in RAD Studio 10.3

It’s very easy to customize your user interface using FireMonkey styles in RAD Studio 10.3. We’ve added all of the premium styles to GetIt (Tools > GetIt Package Manager > Styles) in 10.3. This includes both VCL Windows and FMX multi-device themes. Ready to customize your own UI? Below are the steps for adding a customtheme to your multi-device application with Delphi, C++Builder…
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Performance and Quality in the RAD Studio 10.3 IDE

RAD Studio 10.3 has a number of performance improvements, as well as some quality improvements we’d like to share. IDE Fix Pack Some time ago, we licensed Andreas Hausladen’s IDE Fix Pack. This is an unofficial IDE addon that changes the behaviour of several things in…
Delphi

Directions for ARC Memory Management in Delphi

With the coming 10.3 release, RAD Studio R&D and PM teams are making Delphi’s new directions in memory management official. A few years back, when Embarcadero started building new Delphi compilers for platforms other than Windows there was a lot of discussion…
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Android Z-Order, Native Controls, and 10.3 Rio

Before 10.3 Rio, you couldn’t put other controls on top of a platform-native control like TWebBrowser or TMediaPlayer, The stacking of controls is referred to as Z-Order. This was especially annoying when used with the TMultiView (one of my favorite controls)…
Delphi

Get the Competitive Edge with FireUI

The Market Today To stay relevant, be successful and reach users, mobile app developers need to develop multi-device apps. Looking at the latest mobile OS market share stats, iOS and Android is split down the middle in the US, with iOS being prevalent in Japan and Android in…
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Targeting iOS 12 with RAD Studio

Earlier this week, Apple released the new version of iOS, iOS 12. We’ve been testing iOS 12 with 10.2 Tokyo Release 3 and the 10.3 Carnival Beta. What we support with RAD Studio 10.2.3 today: Building applications that can run on iOS 12 devices using the iOS 11 SDK and…
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Prototyping: from Vision to UX Design

You have a great idea for an app, but how do you successfully get from idea to a well designed, functional app your users love? It starts with design wireframing and prototyping, a faster iterative process that requires less coding effort up front so you know what works and…
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Make Your Apps Scalable and Web-Enabled

This blog post accompanies the webinarMake Your Apps Scalableand Web-Enabled – Leverage your Business Logic with a Fast Flexible Multi-Tier Architecture – Using RAD Server and REST Services. Create high performance, scalable applications by adopting a…