C++

Mobile User Interface Design: Navigation Drawer

Drawer menus are very popular since they allow you to take advantage of more screen real estate when building your app. The main application menu is hidden by default, and invoked by tapping on a menu item or swiping left/right. This type of UI can be seen in many popular mobile applications, including Facebook, Youtube and Gmail. Drawer Navigation Key Features: Main app menu is hidden by…
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C++

Finding your Tethered Apps

Author: Vincent P596 RAD Studio XE6, Delphi XE6 and C++Builder XE6 include support for tethering your VCL and FMX apps together. This blog post shows you how to display all of the tethered apps that you can find on your subnet. App Tethering includes two components…
Delphi

Lazy Form Creation Design Pattern

Author: Pawe Gowacki One of the most important things about any application, and especially mobile apps, is short start-up time. End user does not like to wait for too long for an app to start. In some cases, if the start-up time is excessively long a mobile app may not be…
C++

Customizing and Creating VCL Styles

Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio include various VCL styles out of the box. These can be used for your Windows applications and customized via the included Bitmap Style Designer (Tools->Bitmap Style Designer). You can also create a new style from scratch. The easiest way to get started with a brand new style is to use the VCL style template in the Bitmap Style Designer as a guide. Below is a…
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Delphi

Delphi XE5 - deploying and accessing local files on iOS and Android

Larry in Canada recently sent me an email asking a Delphi XE5 mobile multi-device question: “How do you include files and/or folders containing files with a Delphi Android application APK file?” I told him I would create a simple example and explain how to deploy a file with your application and then access it from a Delphi app for iOS and Android. To accomplish this, you create a new…
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Delphi

Components vs Children in FireMonkey

Author: Jayme Jeffman Filho You have probably iterated through the Components array many many times as a Delphi developer. Consider this simple application: It’s probably no surprise that listing the Components of the form like this… procedure TForm2.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var i: Integer; begin Memo2.Lines.Clear; for i := 0 to ComponentCount-1 do …
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