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DX.Library : Utility functions for iOS (and other platforms) available via SVN

Olaf Monien — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:26:40 +0000

I just created a DX.Library SubVersion repository at Google and uploaded our DX.Apple.Utils.pas unit as first action. As a start three functions are available: Note: there is a dependency to Apple.Utils.pas (and later maybe to other units in the same … Continue reading →

iOS OpenURL – Not just for HTTP URLs

Olaf Monien — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:26:09 +0000

Anders just recently blogged about how to open Safari from your iOS Delphi app and showed how to incorporate Cleggy’s Apple.Utils.pas unit to make it just as simple as: OpenURL(‘http://www.embaracdero.com’); The interesting point is now, that this would also work … Continue reading →

iOS: Identifying Your Users Devices – A Recipe How to Import iOS Classes

Olaf Monien — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:51:08 +0000

You might want to identify your users devices, for example to bind that information to some licensing mechanism. In earlier iOS days, you would have used UIDevice.uniqueIdentifier for that. That ID is unique for every iOS device out in the … Continue reading →

Objective-C for Delphi users: Property Setters and Getters

Olaf Monien — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:53:51 +0000

Even though Embarcadero did a great job in abstracting the RTL and FireMonkey from iOS specifics in their latest Delphi XE 4 release, there will sometimes be the need to access iOs APIs directly – just like we did with … Continue reading →

Delphi samples updated constantly

Olaf Monien — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:11:50 +0000

Since a while the samples that come with Delphi are actually connected to a SubVersion repository of Embaracderos, that is you might want to “update” them from time to with your favorite SVN client. Samples for Delphi XE4 can usually … Continue reading →

XE4 added to Delphi Version Poll

Olaf Monien — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:07:23 +0000

I just added XE4 to my almost for ever running Delphi Version Poll. So if you like just check the version you are using most. You can re-vote even if you already voted a while ago and your Delphi version … Continue reading →

Entity Framwork and how to solve poor performance on large read-only batches

Olaf Monien — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:39:34 +0000

ORMs such as Entity Framework are great – as long as you don’t forget that there is quite a complex engine under the shiny hood. I just ran into the situation that EF performed extremely poor while processing large sets … Continue reading →

Use the Power of Delphi Carefully – Please!

Olaf Monien — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:22:24 +0000

Now that EMBT gave us Delphi for iOS, a.k.a. RAD Studio XE4, we got a quite powerful tool (not just) for developing iOS Apps in our hands. Compared to what it takes to get a halfway serious App done in … Continue reading →

Using InterBase Lite and InterBase ToGo in Delphi iOS Applications – Step by Step Guide

Daniel Magin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:17:40 +0000

Using InterBase Lite and InterBase ToGo in Delphi iOS Applications – Step by Step Guide With RAD Studio XE4 a new InterBase edition has been rolled out. The existing InterBase edition family (Server, Desktop, Developer and ToGo) has been enhanced by an edition called “IBLite”. This edition may be deployed for free with your applications. …
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ARC: What if I call .Free? Will I get tared and feathered?

Olaf Monien — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:16:37 +0000

Disclaimer: I have been permitted by Embarcadero to officially blog about the next Delphi Version: Delphi XE4 / RAD Studio XE4 Now, in previous posts you learned that ARC releases you from calling Free yourself. As you don’t have to … Continue reading →

Delphi XE 4 – Is ARC for Everyone?

Olaf Monien — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:01:09 +0000

Disclaimer: I have been permitted by Embarcadero to officially blog about the next Delphi Version: Delphi XE4 / RAD Studio XE4 As mentioned previously, Delphi XE4 will come with a new memory management, which is supposed to release us from … Continue reading →

Delphi XE4 : Neues, komfortables Speichermanagement mit ARC

Olaf Monien — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:38:23 +0000

Wir haben uns in den letzten Tagen ein wenig mit einem der ganz neuen Themen im kommenden “Delphi for iOS” – was wir nun als offizielle Beta-Blogger ganz offiziell beim neuen Namen nennen dürfen: “Delphi XE4″ bzw. “RAD Studio XE4″ … Continue reading →

Microsoft Finally Acknowledges Entity Framework / dbContext Templates non-functional for Data Binding

Olaf Monien — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:10:26 +0000

Lately I have been working on some rather cool Delphi code generation templates for Entity Framework models – I’ll blog on that soon , and while surfing through all the relevant doc pages I found that Microsoft finally acknowledged that … Continue reading →

“ARC” – das Speicher-Management von Delphi für iOS, Teil 1

Daniel Wolf — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:11:13 +0000

Disclaimer: Die Informationen über “Delphi für iOS” kommen aus dem derzeitigen Entwicklungsstand. Embarcadero hat mich von der Verschwiegenheits-Pflicht entbunden und mir ausdrücklich gestattet, über “Delphi für iOS” zu berichten.
Die drei Buchstaben “ARC” stellen ein Akronym dar und stehen für “Automatic Reference Counting”. Das Thema “automatische Referenz-Zählung” ist bei Delphi nicht vollständig neu, wir kennen es seit Delphi 2 bei Strings, deren Speicher automatisch freigegeben wird, wenn sie nicht mehr verwendet werden. Seit Delphi 3 kennen wir es bei Interfaces. ...

Apple Instruments and Delphi for iOS Movie

Daniel Magin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:02:05 +0000

DeveloperExperts created a new Video about how to Analyze Delphi iOS Applications with Apple Instruments. Here you can see a complete Introduction about this. Idea and Script was created by Olaf Monien and me. Movie was created by Daniel Wolf and me. H...