September 19, 2013
Delphi XE5 is the first Delphi for Android. But this release is "the first" only from many other point of views...
Delphi XE5 is the first Delphi for Android. But this release is "the first" only from many other point of views:
- The first Delphi for Android
- The first Delphi with 6 compilers (Win32, Win64, Mac OS X, iOS Simulator, iOS Device, Android)
- The first release with two LLVM-based compilers
- The first Delphi with fully integrated FireDAC
- The first Delphi with FireDAC features in the Professional version (including local database connectivity, the powerful memtable, and much more)
- The first Delphi with the new REST client library (also in Professional and working also for VCL applications)
- The first Delphi with some Ribbon fixes ;-)
- The first release offering single source Android and iOS support
- The first with a Time picker for iOS
- The first Delphi I worked on for the entire development cycle
- The first Delphi addressing the 3 most popular operating systems in the world (Android, Windows, and iOS)
- The first release supporting and including the Android SDK and NDK
- The first compiler supporting ARC on Android
- The first "true native" toolchain for Android
- The first Android development tool with Visual Live Bindings, for prototyping and building database applications in a very short amount of time
- The first Android tool that speaks very little Java
- The first Delphi ready for iOS7
A great new version of Delphi!
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marcocantu @ 7:18AM | 12 Comments
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12 Comments
The First Delphi For Android and not only
Hi Marco,
I am impressed with all the new capabilities of
Delphi. I just need RightToLeft to work in FM for me
to upgrade from XE2.
Best wishes.
Comment by Mowat on September 19, 08:56
It is not the first object pascal compiler and framework for Android
Nice seeing more platform supported.
I just found this nice blog article:
http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?
blogId=simonsayz&logNo=120196870149&redirect=Dlog
This Chinese guy did wonders with FPC and Lazarus, and
integrate native Android controls to its multi-form
system, including Open GL display.
Comment by A. Bouchez
[http://synopse.info]
on September 19, 09:02
The First Delphi For Android and not only
The first Delphi addressing the 4 most popular
operating systems in the world (Android, Windows,
MacOS and iOS)
Comment by Roman Kassebaum on September 19, 11:37
The First Delphi For Android and not only
Are there still Delphi 7 users still saying "There's
nothing really new in Delphi to warrant upgrading?" ;-)
Congrats to the Delphi team. The last 2 years have
seen rapid growth in Delphi. Keep it up!
Comment by Kyle Miller on September 19, 16:47
The most pupular *client* OSes
Because but Windows the other are non-existent server
side.
Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on September 19, 20:28
The First Delphi For Android and not only
When we will see the first delphi addressing full
support for bidi?
Comment by ahmed on September 19, 21:20
Get the fat out from XE5 Android apps - FireMonkey Runtime for Android
Is great that Delphi team managed to get a foothold
into the mobile's land (iOS and Android) but now
please take some time/focus to polish the tools:
* solve the outstanding QC reported quality issues (ex
look into these areas: ErrorInsight, FMX Styles, FMX
designer)
* make Delphi king into performance with small
generated executables
Delphi for Android related, I find this proposal quite
interesting:
Get the fat out from XE5 Android apps - FireMonkey
Runtime for Android
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?
threadID=93045&tstart=0
http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=119119
Comment by Dev{eloper} Stonez
[http://twitter.com/devstonez]
on September 20, 07:08
The First Delphi For Android and not only
Sadly, of that list there are only two bullet points
that make me so much as prick my ears (and one of those
two isn't even exactly a feature). Even more sadly, that
reaction to a new Delphi release is not a first at
all... :-/
Hint: I don't really care about mobile (yet) and am
perfectly satisfied with ADO (aka dbGo) when it comes to
DB access, and I also don't use the stock ribbon
components. Now guess. ;)
Comment by Oliver
[http://ogware.wordpress.com]
on September 20, 08:32
The First Delphi For Android and not only
@Kyle Miller
"Are there still Delphi 7 users still saying "There's
nothing really new in Delphi to warrant upgrading?" ;-
)"
Yes, D7 IDE is still much better than Galileo IDEs.
For example when I create a new event it goes at the
end of the file and I can move them where I want.
Galileo IDE sorts them alphabetically so I have to
hunt for them.
Seriously, I don't know who idiot thought it would be
a good idea to sort events alphabetically, who does
that?
Would it kill to have an option for this ???
Comment by Archer66 on September 25, 09:46
The First Delphi For Android and not only
Marco,
Will Delphi eventually support the Win Mobile OS? We
work in an industry that requires writing
applications for bar code reading hardware that
communicate with our Windows Delphi application.
Right now there are not nearly as many scanning
devices running Android as Win Mobile. I'd like to do
this work in Delphi and not resort to something like
Calypso. Thanks!
Comment by Ric on October 21, 22:07
The First Delphi For Android and not only
Never mind, I did not realize Windows Mobile was
deprecated by MS.
Ric
Comment by Ric on October 25, 20:50
The First Delphi For Android and not only
>>Archer66
1) We do not "hunt" we use a tools like CnPack or
similar to quickly locate the methods we need...
Are you still searching the functions yourself and
writing lines like:
{ private methods }
...
{ public methods }
..
{ combobox events }
...
:D:D:D
2) "Much better"? No refactoring, no extract method..
no code formatter (ok noone cares if he writes the
code himself only), IDE insight... and more.. Yes
these all changes are MUCH worse, of course... ;)
Comment by Zigmund
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on October 28, 17:26
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