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February 2012
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Choosing the Best Toolchain for each Platform
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– Four or five years ago, the software world was simple: if you were a commercial software developer, you were developing for Windows. But this has changed drastically with the advent of mobile platforms such as iOS and Android, the steadily increasing market share of Macs, and the establishment of ...
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Wireless Android Control
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– I’ve bumped into a couple of wireless Android control apps lately, one targeted at developers and one targeted at users. The two apps rely on both your Android device and the computer that will be wirelessly connected to it being on the same Wi-fi network, which is fair enough – you’ll be using this ...
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Problems installing and/or launching Android apps (2)
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– Further to my previous post on common problems installing and/or launching Android apps, here’s a little titbit to add into the mix. In that previous post I mentioned: Sometimes a small change in the application, like updating the package name or altering the signing process (i.e. changing the ...
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Jan 2012 Release of Oxygene
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– On 27th January RemObjects released their first update to their Oxygene 5 products, Oxygene for .NET (aka Delphi Prism, aka Prism) and Oxygene for Java (aka Project “Cooper”). Oxygene for .NET v5 was released as part of Embarcadero’s RAD Studio XE2 in September 2011 and Oxygene for Java was ...
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Hydra 4 and Oxygene January 2012 Releases
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– We’re hitting the ground running for 2012 and finished January with the first two product releases of the year. Hydra 4 Hydra 4 is a major new release for our .NET/Delphi cross-platform product, and one we’re very excited about. Hydra has been at version 3 for a while now and seen mostly ...
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Overview of RemObjects Hydra 4
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– An overview of Hydra and what’s new in version 4, including support for Delphi XE2, FireMonkey, Silverlight and true 64-bit support.
January 2012
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Android Design site
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– For all those working in Android development you should head along to the new Android Design web site. This new area on the Android developer’s site gives the low down on how to design Android applications and looks at the various controls, common aspects of Android UIs, style, and much more. ...
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Problems installing and/or launching Android apps
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– Sometimes you try and launch your Android application from Oxygene for Java and nothing much happens. Sometimes you the application builds successfully and then nothing appears on the device. Sometimes you go to choose a target device to deploy to and none are listed. There are many of these sort of ...
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Accessing Android’s Google Map control in Oxygene for Java
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– When I was working out how to use the Google Map control on Android devices i found it a little daunting with all the information scattered around the web, often missing out crucial points and almost never mentioning the impact that Java 7 has on things…. So I thought it best to write all my ...
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Windows 8 Metro and RemObjects SDK for JavaScript
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– Windows 8 (currently in beta) introduces a new Metro UI that Marc already talked about a while back. Metro apps can be written with .NET, native C++ and also with JavaScript. What that means is that users of Data Abstract or RemObjects SDK have the choice of two development platforms and languages ...
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Android events in Oxygene for Java
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– When I first started looking at the Android SDK I quickly realised that events were set up differently to the frameworks I had worked with before. Instead of being defined as closures, or method pointers, event fields are defined using interface types. To handle an event you need to implement the ...
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“Look Ma! No Wires!” Wireless Android Debugging with Oxygene for Java
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– Since Oxygene for Java is fully integrated into the Android tool chain you can take advantage of cool features like wireless deployment and debugging. All you need is a rooted Android device (phone, tablet, TV, watch, belt-buckle, etc.) running on the same Wifi network as your debug machine. ...
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We need to get out less…
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– I’m happy to let you know that we have just posted the first set of events that RemObjects will be participating in this year on our event calendar at remobjects.com/events. 2011 was our busiest year so far, with eleven conferences and events we participated in. One highlight has of course ...
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Android Market app built in Oxygene for Java
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– In Autumn 2011 I was approached by Nail Soup Ltd. about an Android development opportunity. Nail Soup had a client, a charitable organisation called Amber Foundation, who wanted some mobile applications built. Primarily they wanted to offer a free iPhone and Android app that would allow people to ...
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Accessing Firebird Embedded databases from Data Abstract for .NET
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– Recently, we already tried to work with the SQL Server 2012 LocalDB database. Now let’s try a more old-fashioned database, like Firebird Embedded. Again, we’ll modify the Sample Server application shipped with Data Abstract for .NET. Let’s start with the FB Embedded installation. ...
