Despite the release of Windows 11 back in October 2021, Windows 10 is still the most popular version of the operating system. Although most people will update, many may avoid updating due to software compatibility issues. Therefore, targeting Windows 10 development will currently give you the most extensive customer base, and later on, you can change your development focus to Windows 11.
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The Beginner's Guide to Clean Code Windows Development
February 18, 2022
Designing a well-crafted and easily manageable software system is the ultimate goal of any professional developer. Therefore, we need the best windows development tool and coding practices to achieve this goal. Clean coding is one such core practice that can help us in our…
What is my IP address?
October 20, 2017
Author: Pawe Gowacki
There are many situation when it would handy to know the IP address of a device where our app is running. Maybe you want to identify who is running your app? By IP address it is also possible to calculate the approximate location of a device. If you…
Get Up And Running Fast With The In Depth Developer Guide For The Hospitality Survey App Template
September 14, 2017
The Hospitality Survey App templatethatEmbarcadero has released for Delphi 10.2 Tokyo through their GetIt platform is quite extensive. I have put together a developer guide video for the project which explains more in depth. The video explains each of the four different projects that make up theHospitality Survey App. These projects include:
A client app built with…
Embarcadero MVP Paul Toth Demos Building A Google Cardboard VR App With Delphi FireMonkey
December 18, 2016
Author: CarloG
Embarcadero MVP Paul Toth has a video up demoing how to build a Google Cardboard VR app with Delphi FireMonkey. Source code is also available. The video is in French so you can use the auto translated subtitlesif needed. The video itself talks about…
DataSnap "CUSTOMERS" FireDAC JSON Reflection Demo Code
August 20, 2014
Author: Mério C11139
My “RAD in Action: Build Modern Apps with Enterprise Mobility Services” webinar is happening right now. During my 50 minutes session I’m demonstrating using DataSnap framework for building multi-tier database application with FireDAC…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Welcome to The C++ Mobile Day webinar! Right now I’m listening to David I explaining basics of building native mobile apps for Android and iOS from the same C++ codebase with C++Builder XE6. In less than three hours there will be my, prerecorded session “Create C++ Secure Mobile Applications that Work with Enterprise Web Services and Multi-tier…
Lazy Form Creation Design Pattern
February 19, 2014
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…
Fun with FireMonkey Gradients
January 9, 2014
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Everybody loves colours. Great apps should use colours in clever and original ways. I have been recently spending a lot of time using Delphi XE5 for designing screens for mobile apps and must admit that I really like the way how iOS 7 is using colours…
Changing FireMonkey style at runtime
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…