If you’re anywhere near Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Tauranga, Dunedin or Christchurch next week, then you may see me rushing through looking stressed and/or over-caffeinated. In conjunction with the IITP, I’m presenting in all those cities on Mobile Development, using RAD Studio XE5 of course. Read On…
Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’
Sneak Peek: Delphi, Android, ARM Assembler and Extra Awesomeness
Less than two years ago, Delphi was a windows-only development tool.
Think about that for a second. In less than 24 months, we’ve added native OSX support and native iOS support, with native Android support currently in beta.
Now, I’m as guilty as anyone of being impatient about features and fixes, but when I step back and view it like that, it’s an amazing change in just two years. This Engineering team astonishes me sometimes. Read On…
Using the FM Messaging System for In-process Publish and Subscribe on Windows, OSX and iOS.
For quite awhile I’ve been using a messaging bus within my apps to de-couple different sub-systems from each other. I use this heavily in my MVVM-based apps to minimise the dependencies between my Views and ViewModels, but it applies to non-MVVM apps of reasonable complexity as well. Read On…
Where to see RAD Studio XE4 in the coming weeks
Things have been hectic since the XE4 launch. We’ve had in-person events in lots of countries around Asia. I’ve done Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, but they’ve also been happening in Australia (with ADUG) and China, and we’ve had lots of webinars as well.
What has been really encouraging is the number of new people at the events. I’ve spoken to Xcode developers, Visual Studio developers and Java developers across multiple countries who are all trying out Delphi for the first time. Read On…
A Facebook-style layout for your mobile app
I’ve been working on a ShowCase App for the Delphi XE4 release, and as part of it I wanted to have a “drawer” layout. I first saw this in the iOS and Android Facebook app, but it has shown up in other apps since.
If you’re not familiar with this, it is where your main content takes up the bulk of the screen, except for a toolbar at the top. The toolbar has a “hamburger” button that slides the main content area over to the right to expose a second content area (often a menu) underneath. Read On…