Whether your interest in IoT is for fun projects at home, or you’re trying to harness IoT capabilities to capitalize on the growing industry, it can be intimidating to get started. Building multi-device applications that leverage devices that have standard and non-standard profiles, services and characteristics usually requires a significant amount of upfront research and development. With RAD Studio, and our library of IoT device components (which we call ‘ThingConnect’), we make the process of connecting to an IoT component extremely easy.

I am often by parents how they can get their kids interested in technology and programming in a fun and educational way. When I was a kid growing up I played with erector sets, built my own crystal radio, used my Edmund Scientific kit to create microscopes and telescopes. I used to show my Lego Mindstorms kit, my IMSAI 8080 computer that I build from a kit in 1974, my Arduino boards and now my RaspberryPi 2 device. There are many other computer programming education systems including Alice,...

It is a spectacular time for developers who want to interact with the real world of things: sensors, gadgets, devices, wearables, beacons and more. Developers are not just stuck writing code for desktop, client server and multi-tier systems. Developers can now use pre-built components and servers to add new devices to their application solutions. Beacons (iBeacons, AltBeacons, Eddystone Beacons) allow developers to add proximity based features to their applications. Using BluetoothLE, these beac...

Last year we showed developers how to build apps that connect to  heart rate monitors, wireless weight scales and other fitness devices using our RAD Studio and Appmethod products. These health devices provide interfaces via BluetoothLE and/or wireless networks. Sarina Dupont, Brian Alexakis and Diego Navarro have written and demoed how to use our products with the many new devices in the health and fitness space. With the increase in the number of products being announced and shipped, you ...

Apple has recently updated the App Store Review Guidelines to cover new capabilities for Home and Health that will appear in iOS 8. Take a look at the new guidelines online at https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/. You can also use the links in the document to get to sections at the end covering HomeKit, HealthKit and TestFlight. HealthKit guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#healthkit HomeKit guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/app...

RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder XE7 are available today!   Get the must-have upgrade of the award winning, multi-device development solution for connected apps on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, gadgets and wearables. PLUS! Keep building, evolving, and extending your Windows applications using the updated VCL! Extend existing Windows Applications: Embrace the expanding world of devices including phones, tablets, gadgets, wearables and more, all within a single IDE! Deliver Highly Connec...

Today (June 17, 2014) marks 29 years working here in Scotts Valley with our developer tools. Philippe Kahn hired me and I started working for Borland International on this day in 1985. I continue to have tons of fun learning about programming, software architectures, tool chains, frameworks, devices, APIs and more. I wrote a blog post in 2011 detailing some of my journey for the first 26 years here. During the past 3 years we have extended the experience for developers into multi-tier, smartphon...

Today's (June 3, 2014) Developer Skill Sprint by Jim McKeeth shows you how to use App Tethering to control a Windows app from a mobile device. From the DocWiki: The RTL provides new App Tethering components to give your applications the ability to interact with other applications running either on the same machine or on a remote machine. You can use App Tethering in your VCL and FireMonkey applications. Using App Tethering, your applications can: Discover other applications that support a...

Several of us have Google Glass and are building and testing apps using the devices. Google posted a message on their Google+ Glass page, announcing that "Next Tuesday, April 15th at 6am PDT, we’re opening up some spots in the Glass Explorer Program. Any adult in the US* can become an Explorer by visiting our site and purchasing Glass for $1500 + tax – and it now comes with your favorite shade or frame, thanks to feedback from our current Explorers. The number of spots available is limited, so m...

Join John Thomas and Marco Cantù for a first look at RAD Studio XE6, Delphi XE6 and C++Builder XE6. See what’s coming for VCL/Windows and FMX multi-device development in XE6 and get ready to take your app development to the next level. Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6AM PDT San Francisco / 9AM New York / 2PM London / 3PM Milan / 13:00 UTC/GMT 11AM PDT San Francisco / 2PM New York / 7PM London / 8PM Milan / 18:00 UTC/GMT 5PM PDT San Francisco / 17-Apr (Thursday) 9AM Tokyo / 17-Apr (Thursday...