In RAD Studio Berlin, we provide access to over 50 prebuilt components for popular IoT devices. ThingConnect IoT device components range from healthcare devices such as heartrate montiors, blood pressure monitors and scales to home automation gadgets like BLE light bulbs, Z-Wave enabled door locks, smart switches, smoke detectors and more. Also included are components for popular fitness gadgets such as cycling sensors. The available ThingConnect devices use one of the following technologies: ...

With Delphi and C++Builder it is now easy to use App Tethering if you want to build applications that can communicate with other applications on the same machine or located on remote hosts. It is now simpler to communicate and share information across multiple platforms: mobile or Windows. For a quick intro, just to keep you interest alive and make you start building your first tethering applications, take a look at the following video as it describes how easy is to build an image sharing ...

RAD Studio offers IoT functionality and connectivity through a number of different protocols and components. You can integrate your IoT devices using Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy. You can talk to beacons and create a proximity fencing solution with BeaconFence. You can track and measure how often your apps are used using Embarcadero® AppAnalytics. You can easily connect your apps together via App Tethering over Bluetooh and Wifi. And finally you can connect to over 50 different IoT devices...

Using app tethering, your VCL, FMX and console applications can easily: 1) Discover other applications that are using app tethering, running either on the same device as your application or on other connected devices. 2) Run actions remotely. An application can publish actions using app tethering. Then other applications can remotely invoke any of these actions on the former application. 3) Share data between applications. App tethering allows sharing of standard data types and st...

On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 I presented a webinar titled "IoT in Action: Building a Modern Healthcare Application". The webinar presents the development of connected, multi-device solutions for the healthcare industry, using Beacons and Bluetooth LE devices. During this session, David Intersimone, Vice President of Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist at Embarcadero, demonstrates how developers can use RAD Studio XE8, which supports Proximity Beacons and Enterprise Mobility Services Push Noti...

Last week was probably the busiest in my presenting career with four events day after day in four different countries. I have promised to publish some photos, so here they are! Everywhere the reception of the new Delphi XE7, C++Builder XE7 and RAD Studio XE7 was fantastic. Tons of questions and in general developers are happy with the direction where this excellent product is going. Strong VCL support plus a lot of innovation around Multi-Device development with new unified "Multi-Device" proje...

Today's developer skill sprint is titled "Internet of Things with Bluetooth". I have uploaded the slides (slightly modified from the presentation) to Embarcadero's Slideshare site at http://www.slideshare.net/embarcaderotechnet/internet-of-things-xe7-bluetooth-skillsprintdavidi. The sample programs that I use in the demonstrations are included in Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7 releases. The samples are also included with the Appmethod September 2014 release.  You can also find t...

Next week, we'll be presenting a webinar that will show you how to quickly program the Internet of Things (IoT) using the Appmethod September 2014 Release (you can also do the same with Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE7). The webinar will take place on Wednesday, September 24 at 6am, 11am and 5pm PDT (UTC 1300, 1800, 0000 Sept 25).  The Internet of Things presents developers with an amazing opportunity to create a whole new category of apps that take advantage of connected gadgets and ...

With RAD Studio XE7, you can easily extend your existing Windows VCL and FireMonkey apps to connected devices, sensors, data and services using Application Tethering. In XE7, we have added support for Bluetooth tethering, in addition to Network based tethering. Here are some of the features that App Tethering provides: Extend FireMonkey and VCL Apps Auto Device Discovery Trigger Events and Methods on Other Devices Remote Control Apps Send Data back and forth Bluetooth & Wifi Suppor...

Hello USA and Canada. We (Al Mannarino, Jim McKeeth and David I) are on the road this week showing what's new in RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder XE7 in New York (Sept 9), Montreal (Sept 10), Santa Monica (Sept 10), Toronto (Sept 11) and Vancouver (Sept 11).  You can register for the live in person events using the online registration form. We need you to register so that we can provide enough food and refreshments for all those who attend. If you can't make it to one of the cities, you c...