[Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes] Part 1 in an as yet unknown number of articles using a (very) simple camera application to demonstrate building first class Android applications using “Pascal for Java” – i.e. Oxygene Cooper. In this first instalment we will look at the basics – the components we are going to need and the basic UI of the application.
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] In XE4 FireMonkey supported iOS 5.1. According to the platform requirements for XE5 this has now increased to iOS 6.
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] Iztok has been at it again, making comments that prompt another post. 🙂 He expresses his view that there are only two viable options for mobile development. The first is essentially the web-based technology approach (HTML/JS/PhoneGap etc) and the other is the platform native tool chains, Eclipse/AndroidStudio/Xcode etc.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Embarcadero have blogged about the first Android app “in the wild” (actually, being on the Play store I think it’s the first domesticated app – wild ones surely get side-loaded ? :)). Rather embarrassingly they already have a comment from someone unable to use this “true native Android” application on their actual Android device.
[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] In a comment on my Shaggy Dog story yesterday commenter Iztok gently chastised me for not having backups of my VM’s. Ironically I did. The problem is that my backup strategy is so silently effective that I completely forgot I had it ! Having been reminded, I thought it might be worth sharing.
[Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes] It has been a frustrating week for me in some regards. It all started with the news of Microsoft acquiring Nokia. At first I paid it no real attention. I have never had a Windows Phone and my few experiences of Windows on any sort of mobile or handheld device had not left me particularly interested. But for some reason after a day or two I found myself thinking I should take a look at Windows Phone (and Windows 8, for that matter).
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] XE5 is officially out today, and the online store now has pricing for the new release. Being a scant 6 months since XE4 was released, with a $49 special upgrade price for XE3 Pro customers, I looked to see what special price might be on offer for XE5. $499 is the answer.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] In a comment on my previous post, David Michael made some observations about the cost of Oxygene being comparable to Delphi. This surprised me, so I did some checking. The results surprised even me.
[Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes] Well, not really RAD Studio as such, more like Mobile Studio (whether as part of RAD Studio Ent+ or the Mobile Add-On) since everything shown was oriented around the Android support and emphasising the fact that an application written for iOS can simply be recompiled and will run on Android. Or Windows or OS X, as before of course. About which nothing was said (or, to be fair, asked either).
[Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes] More than one commenter to recent posts has trotted out the same tired old myths that, in their view, prevent [insert current owner of Delphi here] from being able to compete fairly on the pricing front. Some of these myths are as old as the Enterprise Customer thinking that is the real problem, and just as stale, not having been updated to reflect current circumstances.
