Embarcadero MVP Paul Toth has a video up demoing how to build a Google Cardboard VR app with Delphi FireMonkey. Source code is also available. The video is in French so you can use the auto translated subtitles if needed. The video itself talks about building the stereo view, creating the lens distortion effect, and integrating the rotation vector information. The source code has a number of demos which include StereoView (Demonstration of the Stereo effect), LensEffect (Demonstr...

If you are new to RAD Studio and Delphi or you are a long time user these videos will help you setup and configure each of the platforms supported by RAD Studio and Delphi. The platforms supported by VCL apps are Win32 and Win64. The platforms supported by cross platform FMX apps are Android, iOS 32, iOS 64, iOS Simulator, macOS, Win32, and Win64. You can quickly build and deploy a single code base and single UI using FMX to all of these platforms. The Platform Assistant server (named paserver)...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Embarcadero Technologies (a division of IDERA), a leading provider of software solutions for application development, today announced that Hunger Obesity Prevention (HOP) has won its Cool App contest for December. HOP provides information and tools to help obese children lose weight. The app also includes a fundraising component so people can pledge money for each pound lost, which goes to UNICEF to feed hungry children. Obesity is a global health epide...

If you are looking to use some third party libraries, APIs, or frameworks in your mobile applications on iOS or Android you may need to generate header files in order to access those interfaces. You might want to do this if you want to use the Facebook SDK, or the Google AdWords Conversion Tracking SDK, or any number of third party libraries. There are a number of tools that can help you do this (some of which ship with Delphi 10.1 Berlin). The first tool is SdkTransform and it is used to ...

During this week's CodeRage event, I gave a lightning talk on using the Bitmap Style Designer to create a custom style for TSwitch. This blog post summarizes the steps, tips and tricks shown during my CodeRage session. It also includes the style graphics shown during the session and the session replay link.