Anders' Analog Clock app ported to Delphi for iOS

My FireMonkey Clock app has been ported using a beta version of Delphi for iOS.

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Above you can see a screen shot of the app as it starts up. By default it uses "normal drive" - the second hand moves once per second and the minute hand moves once per minute.

The app is a Universal app (supports iPhone and iPad). The main clock screen uses a TScaledLayout to ensure proper scaling down to the iPhone (the app was designed for the iPad).

If you hit the Info button it will take you to the setup tab, where you can select "Flame" (or FireMonkey second hand) as well as "Smooth drive" - the second and minute hands move smoothly.

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The setup screen uses a combination of items that scale and items that don't scale. For instance, the toolbar, the back button, and the listbox with its items are not supposed to scale, but still be aligned properly. The clock faces, however, do scale inside of a TScaledLayout.

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Above you can see what the FireMonkey second hand looks like.

Below is a screen shot of my Structure Pane where you can see how I designed the app:

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I also wanted to mention performance. The previous version of the app was created in XE2 where I got about 2-3 frames per second in smooth mode - not very smooth. However, this version created with our upcoming product gets a blazing 60 frames per second on the iPad 3 using iOS 6.1.3 and almost the same fps rate on iPhone 4 (iOS 5.1) and iPad 2 (iOS 6.1) at about 55+ frames per second.

Enjoy!

PS: The screen shots above are actually from the *next* update I will be pushing soon... The current one looks almost the same, except for a few changes in layout.

MVP Nuggets #12 and #13

This installation of the "MVP Nuggets" covers the period Feb 9-22.

Francois Piette:

Using Universal Plug And Play (UPnP) with Delphi

Marcos Antonio Moreira:

Introduction to Metropolis in Delphi XE3 - Portuguese - English
Zarko Gajic:

Have Hints For Some Delphi Controls Stay Longer – Control Specific Hint Hide Timeout Values
Radek Cervinka:

Synapse for Delphi POSIX (OSX and future Linux, iOS, Android) - Czech - English
Jens Fudge:

Mobile Preview Webinar Summary
Felix Colibri:

Mobile Preview Webinar Summary
Primoz Gabrijelcic:

Workshop: Multithreaded Programming 1.1
Cary Jensen:

Delphi Developer Days 2013 Cities and Dates
Delphi Editor Key Combination Table Updated
Robert Love:

Legacy Code: Scoping
Legacy Code: Abstract to Interface
Nick Hodges:

Review of the Mobile Preview Webinar
Delphi and the Factory Pattern: Simple Factory
Luis Felipe González Torres:

C++Builder XE3. DataSnap (64bits, C++11 auto y lambda) FireMonkey LiveBinding Designer. Mobile Connector (Android, iOS) - Spanish


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Save the Date: Mobile Preview Webinar on February 21!

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Embarcadero Acquires AnyDAC From DA-SOFT

SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 5, 2013 – Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, today announced it has acquired AnyDAC from DA-SOFT Technologies. AnyDAC is a powerful, yet easy-to-use software development library for Enterprise-class data access. AnyDAC is known for its high performance, rich developer feature-set, and ease of use. Embarcadero plans to incorporate AnyDAC based technology into its multi-device app development tools which include Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio. Embarcadero developer tools roadmap includes single source native deployment to Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices in 2013.

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EKON16 and Mobile Studio

This post is a little late. My apologies. :)

I had the great honor of keynoting at EKON16 in Dusseldorf earlier in November. I presented RAD Studio XE3 and our RAD Studio road map.

I also did a well attended session "What's Cooking in the Labs". I gave a sneak preview of Mobile Studio for about 45 minutes and showed where we're going with it. I showed the seamless integration of writing your code, designing your UI, debugging and deploying your app. I showed our use of some native controls, like the the date picker for selecting dates and even custom pickers (TComboBox in Delphi). I showed our native use of the notification dialog for ShowMessage instead of a custom window as before.

Mobile Studio is going to be very cool.

Thanks to the EKON16 crew in Germany!

MVP Program Landing Pages Are Live

The Embarcadero MVP Program landing pages are live!

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Bonus Pack! Buy Delphi XE3 now and be ready for CodeRage 7!

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RAD Studio Mobile Roadmap Published

For those of you chomping at the bit for information about our mobile plans for RAD Studio - here is the RAD Studio Mobile Roadmap as published today!

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The Embarcadero MVP Program

You may have heard of this program under the working name of "Embarcadero Evangelist Program". The official name will be "The Embarcadero MVP Program". It's a program tailored to recognizing our awesome advocates in our great community.

An official landing page with links to everyone's pages etc, as well as official logos, and other materials are in the works, but I wanted to take this opportunity to preview the program if you will, just like we're starting off the XE3 World Tour as preview events.

It brings me great pleasure to announce this program, and to give you the list of the current MVPs. Some of them have already blogged and/or tweeted. More people are in the queue for sure, and I'm hereby asking anyone that wants to, to send me name and contact information for anyone that you believe should be an MVP. An MVP is someone who is a well known advocate in the community, and does great stuff for everyone's benefit.

Without further ado, here is the current list of MVPs ordered by country:

AUSTRALIA:

Glenn Stephens
Lachlan Gemmell

BELGIUM:

Filip Lagrou

BRAZIL:

Adriano Santos
Alan Glei
Caique Rodrigues
Carlos Agnes
Daniel Wildt
Guinther Pauli
Luciano Pimenta
Marcelo Nogueira
Marcelo Varela
Marcos Antonio Moreira
Marcos Gomes
Newton Michel de Oliveira
Pedro Bento
Ricardo Boaro
Rodrigo Carreiro
Samuel David
Victory Fernandes

CZECH REPUBLIC:

Radek Cervinka

DENMARK:

Jens Fudge

FRANCE:

Didier Cabale
Felix Colibri

GERMANY:

Daniel Magin
Daniel Wolf
Uwe Raabe

GUATEMALA:

Juan Castillo

ITALY:

Marco Cantu

MEXICO:

Eliseo Gonzalez
Marco Santin

NETHERLANDS:

Bob Swart
Danny Wind

NEW ZEALAND:

Alister Christie

PERU:

Jose Castillo

RUSSIA:

Alexander Alexeev
Alexander Bozhko
Andrey Terekhov
Vladislav Bajenov

SLOVENIA:

Primoz Gabrijelcic

SPAIN:

Germán Estévez Ruiz
Luis Alfonso Rey
Salvador Jover

SWEDEN:

Magnus Flysjö

UNITED KINGDOM:

Brian Long

UNITED STATES:

Alan Fletcher
Cary Jensen
Nick Hodges
Ray Konopka
Robert Love
Olaf Monien

VENEZUELA:

Luis Felipe González Torres

Thanks again to all these great folks, and everyone else for their support. As I said, please remember, this is not an exhaustive list by any means, but I think it's a great start for the program. More names will be added over time, and assets to recognize these great folks will be forthcoming.

Enjoy!

XE3 and Beyond

JT just blogged "XE3 and beyond" where he goes into detail about our upcoming Mobile Tool Chain.

A must read, folks!

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FireMonkey eBook coming!

Graeme Chandler has spilled some beans! He's coming out with a FireMonkey eBook at the end of August according to this comment on my blog!

World Class Backgammon! XG Gammon!

Written in none other than Delphi XE2 and FireMonkey for iOS for iPhone/iPad. iTunes link.



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Replay for "Creating iOS Apps Using Delphi XE2" is up

The replay

In other news, the app update I submitted during this webinar (Anders' Analog Clock) was approved last night and is available in the AppStore now.

Enjoy!

Webinar: Creating iOS Apps Using Delphi XE2

Join me for my webinar "Creating iOS Apps Using Delphi XE2" on Wednesday June 6th at 6am, 11am and 5pm PDT.

PS: MathViz 1.1 for iOS is now free in the AppStore. Enjoy!

Reflection for Mac

Just bought this brilliant piece of software - http://www.reflectionapp.com/

Now I can demo iPhone/iPad apps on the Mac without cables.

It works over AirPlay with no software needed on the iPhone/iPad.

Works with iPhone 4S and iPad 2+.

I've already made sure that Camtasia can screen record the iPad screen on the Mac as well. Looking forward to using this in upcoming webinars!

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