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September 24, 2013

Assorted Delphi XE5 Links

There has been a flurry of blog posts around Delphi for Android over the past week, while I was on the road.

There has been a flurry of blog posts around Delphi for Android over the past week, while I was on the road. I'd love to have the time to mention each of them and comment on some, giving my perspective. But if I wait to have time, those blog posts will get old. So here is a rather assorted collection of some of the best I saw (and I'm sure I missed others fully worth):

Fun with external Java libraries . This is absolutely great, if you want to delve into Delphi for Android JNI bridge and SDK integration. Kudos to Paul Foster.
Great video on Delphi / Android set up and configuration , by Danny Wind.
Mobile REST client demo source, by Jim McKeeth, and (from the same source) how to debug against a remote emulator (like not on your VM).
Olaf Monien on HTTPS client support (via OpenSSL)
Embarcadero list of supported Android devices , growing over time (we are getting more feedback from real and "cloud" devices and are expanding the list)
Android resources by Brian Long

Well, that's all for now. Need to blog about my own demos next.

posted by marcocantu @ 2:59PM | 11 Comments [0 Pending]

11 Comments

Assorted Delphi XE5 Links

Marco
Can you please explain the motivation for EMB  almost 
doubling the upgrade price from $499 (XE4 with XE5 
free) to $899 (XE5) when XE5 came out?
It seems as if EMB is doing their best to chase 
longstanding loyal customers away??

Comment by Wouter Oosthuizen on September 24, 19:46

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Greetings Marco,

Thanks for the links.  I will study each one.

By the way, I can't remember seeing any Bluetooth
being mentioned for Delphi Mobile.

Do you know if there is anyway to take advantage of
Bluetooth?

Thanks,
Keith

Comment by Keith on September 24, 21:59

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Wouter, I think you are comparing a price *without* mobil support to a 
price *with* mobile support... but I might be wrong.

Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on September 25, 08:26

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will be possible make android service? or some to way
to get Java events in delphi, like broadcast receiver
or make android service (very important)

Comment by Mike on September 26, 10:33

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Marco
I am looking at the principle, i.e. increasing 
Upgrade pricing dramatically overnight.
Obviously a new version will have new features that a 
previous version didn't have, thats why its an 
upgrade. 
However, I get the impression that EMB is doing their 
best to aggravate longstanding Delphi users by 
jumping the price for an Upgrade from the immediate 
previous version so excessively.
I know there are MANY other Delphi users that feels 
the same.
Refer https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?
threadID=93256&tstart=0 and elsewhere

Comment by Wouter Oosthuizen on September 26, 15:41

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Wouter,
  a new platform (or two for some) is not a regular update with new 
features. Most of our competitors sell their development tools per 
platform, in which case we could have increased Delphi prices 4x times 
in the past few years.

I understand that upgrade prices and frequent upgrades are getting too 
expensive, specifically if you don't have a business need for the mobile 
platforms. Buying maintenance has become a big money saver, for a 
developer who wants to stay current with Delphi, and receive all fixes and 
upgrades.

Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on September 26, 20:13

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Yes,

  I bought Delphi XE4+Mobile Add on in June and now 
after 3 months i have to pay approx 800 dollars again 
for XE5 + Mobile. I have bought Basic4Android for 
android right now. 

Delphi pricing is only for Businesses and Well Settled 
Software Developers who can afford Software Assurance.

Comment by Kanwal Flora on September 28, 00:54

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In addition to adding the FireDAC tools to the menu you 
could also add the firedac source units to the search 
path:
$(BDS)\source\data\firedac

Comment by Sebastian Jänicke on September 29, 20:03

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 More food for thought: 

https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?
threadID=93420&tstart=0

Comment by Wouter Oosthuizen on September 30, 19:57

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Back in September, Mike asked "will be possible make 
android service? or some to way to get Java events in 
delphi, like broadcast receiver or make android 
service (very important)"

While it's not a supported Delphi feature per se, my 
example Android service project in Delphi XE5 
implements 2 broadcast receivers. You can download it 
from the link at http://blog.blong.com/2013/11/delphi-
and-android-services-part-2.html

Comment by Brian Long [http://blong.com] on November 27, 14:41

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Thanks Brian.

Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on November 27, 15:00

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