Embarcadero have released RAD Studio 10.2.2 (what would have been called Update 2 in the old days). They actually did this back in December, but I’ve held off posting as their was an issue with the initial release they needed to fix. Now that’s done (and we’re back from the New Year break) I thought […]
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In our part of the world, people are still slowly making their way back from Summer holidays, but on the off chance that you’re looking for something to watch beside the pool, or maybe the fish aren’t biting, we have a number of webinars scheduled over the coming weeks.
Every developer who works with UI handles a lot of user input. And it’s not a rare situation that we don’t need to handle every incoming event because there might be just too many of them. Consider this example, a user fills an email field on “Sign up” form in some application which works with a
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In one of our customer projects, we had an Android app that was receiving broadcasts on a background thread (I’ll call this the Receiver thread). On receipt of a message, the Receiver thread needed to do some processing on that message and then update the main thread (the UI thread). The initial solution to this was
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It was only today that I got around to updating the VM I use for demos to RAD Studio 10.2.1. Unlike the VM’s I use for customer projects, this one is using my MVP License. I installed 10.2.1 no problems, but upon running I got the following error message: An Update Subscription for Embarcadero Delphi 10.2
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Embarcadero have released an update to 10.2 Tokyo today. The official details are here, but it includes: Linux performance improvements Windows 10 Creator support in both Delphi and C++Builder Support for the latest iOS and XCode FireDAC Driver database support updates for MS SQL, Interbase and others Further Android architectural improvements Plus more than 140
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You might have seen the recent Beta announcement from Embarcadero for the Enterprise Connectors. I’ve been doing some work with a few of them lately, so wanted to give you an overview of my experiences, starting with the Salesforce driver. If you’re not aware, the Enterprise Conenctors are a whole bunch of FireDAC drivers that
Embarcadero Enterprise Connector for Salesforce : First Impressions Read More »
RAD Studio’s ability to do remote debugging of Android apps on device is fantastic for tracking down issues. However sometimes you have issues where the debugger can’t help. Case in point is one of the projects we were doing for a customer recently. The Android portion included a Service, which needed to be auto-started when
Logging in Android Read More »
The RAD Studio installer has been significantly improved over recent releases. One of the newer features is the ability to quickly add and remove Supported Platforms to your installation from within the IDE (see the Tools | Manage Platforms menu in the IDE). The same utility also lets you install other items, like bundled 3rd
Hey RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo, where’s my adb.exe? Read More »
I’m really looking forward to presenting a two day workshop on MVVM in RAD Studio for DAPUG in Denmark next month. The MVVM sessions I’ve done in the past have all been around 45 minutes long, which is barely enough time to scratch the surface. Two full days will give us plenty of time to get
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