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...

Microsoft's Windows XP end of support countdown clock, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/end-of-support.aspx, is now at 21 days. Marco Cantu's webinar, "Modernize your Delphi and C++Builder Windows Applications" will show you how to modernize your Delphi and C++Builder applications to move them to later versions of Windows this Wednesday. March 19, in 3 webinars at 6am, 11am and 5pm Pacific Daylight Time. Today's USA Today article says "Astonishingly, there are as many as 400 mil...

Apple announced CarPlay at the Geneva International Motor Show today starting with partnerships for Volvo, Mercedes and Ferrari (more auto partners to come) to bring the iPhone experience to cars. The CarPlay press release said that CarPlay will bring a "smarter, safer and more fun way to use iPhone® in the car". A Fortune Magazine article has additional details at http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/03/apple-volvo-mercedes-carplay/ I can't wait to try Delphi and C++Builder iOS apps in one...

FMXExpress posted an article with links to the source code for a Flappy Bird clone for Delphi XE5 that runs on iOS and Android. There are links to three source code projects: Flappy Firemonkey Prototype Source Code For Delphi XE5 Flappy Firemonkey 3D Prototype Source Code For Delphi XE5 Firemonkey 3D Delphi XE5 Firemonkey Flappy Bird Clone by Croco Tronic Enjoy the fun!...

Searching the Google Play store for "Delphi XE5" and you'll find several Android apps that were built with Delphi. You can also find links to Android apps on our RAD Studio Application Showcase. RxMediaPharma - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rxmediapharma.mobil&hl=en Korea Ski Resort Information and Ranking - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.c2design.SKI_Portal e-Restaurant Touch - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kernowsoftware.e...

Chris Rolliston, Embarcadero MVP and author of the book "Delphi XE2 Foundations" recently created a Delphi Android app, "Exif Inspector", that reads and writes metadata information for images (jpeg, tiff and psd) using his open source Delphi library "CCR Exif". The Android app is available in Google Play. The Links Read his blog post at http://delphihaven.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/ccr-exif-v1-5-3-android-app-in-google-play/ Explore the CCR Exif open source Delphi library at https://...

I love it when I can write fewer lines of code and get something done in my applications. I love it even more if I only have to write one or two lines of user-written code to add major functionality to my applications. Here is a cool blog post by TMS Software showing you how you can add barcode scanning (QR, UPC and EAN codes) to your Delphi iOS projects using just two lines of code!!! The TMS iCL component pack provides Delphi components integrate with iOS APIs and in this case, specifically le...

Next Wednesday, Nick Hodges, Embarcadero MVP and author of the new book, "Coding in Delphi", will present "RAD in Action: Unit Testing in Delphi" in 3 live online sessions. Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Times: 6AM San Francisco / 9AM New York / 2PM London / 3PM Milan 11AM San Francisco / 2PM New York / 7PM London / 8PM Milan 5PM San Francisco / 13-Feb 10AM Tokyo / 13-Feb 12PM Sydney Without unit tests your code is fragile, hard to change, and unreliable. Unit testing is the...

I am planning a vacation during my wife's winter break. To remind me of the number of days until I leave and to be able to see what's happening with the weather, I've built an iOS mobile application using C++Builder and Delphi (I finished the code for both versions and posted this blog while I was watching Seattle overwhelm Denver in the SuperBowl). The UI contains a TTabControl to contain three tabs for Weather, Browser and Settings. The app uses TGeocoder to get the latitude and longitu...