I'm very excited to invite you to my "True Native, Multi-Device Development from the Same Codebase" live session, which is part of the "MDevCon on Tour" series of live events across The Netherlands. When? 15/04/2014 from 18:30 to 21:00 hours Where? Trifork, Rijnsburgstraat 9-11, Amsterdam Entrance? Free For? Developers The session is one of the many events organized as part of "appril festival 2014". The equation is easy: apps + april = appril:-) This is going to be my fir...

One of the most important things about any application, and especially mobile apps, is short start-up time. End user does not like to wait for too long for an app to start. In some cases, if the start-up time is excessively long a mobile app may not be accepted into an app store. I have been building a lot of mobile apps recently for both Android and iOS in Delphi and found myself reusing the same "lazy form creation" design pattern, that I would like to share with you. The idea is not new...

Everybody loves colours. Great apps should use colours in clever and original ways. I have been recently spending a lot of time using Delphi XE5 for designing screens for mobile apps and must admit that I really like the way how iOS 7 is using colours and gradients. There is a lot of interesting information about iOS user interface design best practices at "iOS 7 Design Resources - iOS Human Interface Guidelines". Gradients look especially cool. It is so easy to use C++ or Object Pascal with...

What is AppWave? Today AppWave is an Enterprise Private PC App Store platform that broadcasts your Apps to your end-users in a seamless and yet effective way. Key components of AppWave AppWave Components AppWave Host - The actual software that powers the applications being broadcasted, downloaded from the Embarcadero AppWave Host AppWave Streaming Service - The part that runs as a Windows Service, in order to enable the application delivery to your end user from AppWave. This is a vi...