Wednesday, 23. April 2014
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Splash screens in Delphi Android apps
Brian Long
– I’ve been meaning to do it for quite a while and I recently started writing up my steps for creating an Android splash screen (as per my CodeRage 8 session). No sooner did I do so that Delphi XE6 launched itself onto the scene, making my write up immediately slightly out of date :-/ Unperturbed, I ...
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TZDB 1.8.2014b
Yet Another Programming Blog
– A new version of TZDB has been release (1.8.2014b). This version fixes a few issues around the Windows TZ aliases provided by CLDR project. Obviously the database has been updated to the most recent version (2014b). The biggest news is the fact that we have moved to GitHub! The old Google ...
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Remote Object Persistence with Parse and Kinvy
Stephen Ball
– New BaaS components introduced in RAD Studio XE6 now make it easily to use remote data storage services offered by Kivey and Parse along with Push notifications, File Storage and user authentication. This can greatly reduce the infrastructure that you need to code, develop and manage with your ...
Tuesday, 22. April 2014
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Great blog post about App Tethering by Steffen Nyeland
Sip from the Firehose
– App Tethering is a new capability in XE6. RTL components are included for connecting your VCL and FMX apps together on the same machines or multi-devices in your Object Pascal and C++ projects. XE6 includes the TTetheringManager and TTetheringAppProfile components for your use. Using app tethering ...
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Presenting XE6 Down Under (Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan)
Marco's Tech Blog
– I'm going to be traveling "Down Under", that is to Australia, New Zealand (located at Italian antipodes), and Taiwan to present RAD Studio XE6 over the next two weeks, part of the "Embarcadero Developer Direct LIVE!" series. It looks like this is going to be an intense trip, with mostly 2 night ...
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Delphi Blogs of the Week #11
Marco's Tech Blog
– A very busy week, with the release of Delphi XE6 and C++Builder XE6. Lots of links, grouped by area. XE6 Release My own blog post at blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2014_april_xe6avaialble.html has a rather large collection of links already. No need to repeat those. Introducing BAAS ...
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Call for help: Spring4D and Delphi MultiCast events: working for Win32, Win64 and Mac OS X x64, but Android/iOS ARM help needed.
The Wiert Corner
– Years after Allen Bauer and a few others wrote about Delphi MultiCast events, the Spring4D framework now supports MultiCast events on 3 platforms: Win32 Win64 Mac OS x86 Depending on the platform, the minimum required Delphi version is this (the develop branch builds in Delphi XE6): Win32: Delphi ...
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More Raize Software updates for Delphi XE6: CodeSite Studio 5.1.5, Inspex 2.6.3, DropMaster 2.4.3.
The Wiert Corner
– After finding out that Raize Components 6 and Raize Components 5 updates for Delphi XE6 I checked Raize Software‘s latest news page and was glad to see that these also got updates: CodeSite Studio version 5.1.5. Inspex version 2.6.3. DropMaster version 2.4.3. The only one not yet having XE6 ...
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Raize Components 6 updates for Delphi XE6
The Wiert Corner
– Just found out that a new version of Raize Components 6 with Delphi XE6 support got released. Raize Components 6 actually supports Delphi 2009 through XE6 (and C++ Builder and RAD Studio). Older Delphi versions are also supported by older Raize Component versions, as Ray Konopka posted last year: ...
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OpenGL ES Support on Mobile with XE6
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– Appmethod, RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder XE6 all make it really easy to work with OpenGL ES on mobile devices. Under the covers FireMonkey is implemented with OpenGL ES on mobile (iOS & Android), OpenGL on OS X and DirectX on Windows. It provides a number of useful abstractions for working ...
Monday, 21. April 2014
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Announcing Castalia 2014.4 with Delphi XE6 support
TwoDesk Delphi Blog
– I’ve just released Castalia 2014.4, my newest collection of Delphi IDE plugins. The biggest news in Castalia 2014.4 is the addition of support for Delphi XE6. Here’s what’s new: All Castalia editions are now available for Delphi XE6. Fixed: Can’t change structural ...
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RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder XE6 featured partners list…
Sip from the Firehose
– Tim del Chiaro has created a landing page with a list of Embarcadero Technology Partners that are among the first to update their tools and components to support RAD Studio XE6, Delphi XE6 and/or C++Builder XE6 at launch time. You can find the list at http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/43761. These ...
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VCL Styles Utils, Embarcadero Agreement and Delphi XE6
The Road to Delphi
– Embarcadero Agreement As probably you know, a small part of the VCL Styles utils project was licensed to Embarcadero, via a non-exclusive proprietary license. This means which they can use, modify and distribute the code as part of the VCL, but the Copyright and the Open Source version of the ...
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Today I learned… :) I didn’t know about this syntax for properties… (via: Roman Yankovsky – Google+)
The Wiert Corner
– Interesting: Roman Yankovsky just wrote about a property syntax that I didn’t know about either: Today I learned… :) I didn’t know about this syntax for properties: FStrings: array [0..1] of string; property String0: string read FStrings[0] write FStrings[0]; property String1: ...
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Movie #99 - Mouse Cursors in FireMonkey
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this YouTube video we look at how to change the mouse cursor in FireMonkey in a way that should work on all platforms (although I've not tested it). We further look at how we can do this with a single line of code, using a cleaver trick by returning an interface from a function. The video is ...
