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Using the native Custom Picker on iOS
The spinning custom picker is a common control used in iOS applications today and can be seen in a variety of applications, including travel, shopping and enterprise applications. When building...
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Lighting up the sky with FireMonkey
The new camera component in Delphi for iOS makes it really easy to invoke the flash on your iPhone, iPod or iPad. This allows you to build a flashlight application which can come in really handy when...
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Cooking with InterBase on iOS
Being an avid cook and baker and longtime user of recipe apps on my iPhone and iPad, I wanted to create my own Recipes app. Over the next couple of blog posts I am going to cover the functionality of...
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Get started with Delphi XE4 now
As one of the Product Managers for RAD Studio, I am very excited to announce that XE4 has been released today. You can download a trial here. RAD Studio and Delphi XE4 include a new Start Here page for...
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Adding custom app icons and setting supported orientations
In Delphi XE4, you can add your own custom app icons and splash screens to your iOS applications via the Project -> Options -> Application menu. There is also a separate tab for setting the...
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Creating a segmented control for iOS in RAD Studio XE4
Segmented controls are commonly used in iOS applications today. In XE4, you can easily style a TSpeedButton to look and behave like a segmented control by changing the stylelookup property and defining...
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Using TListView in your mobile applications
In Delphi XE4, we introduced the TListView component which is designed for long, scrollable, databound lists. A good example of how to use TListView in your mobile applications can be seen in both the...
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Changing the font for TMemo on iOS
In the iOS style, we have predefined the font size, color and font attributes for components like TMemo and TEdit. If you want to change the default font size and font family, there are a couple of...
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Make Your Apps Stand Out - Webinar on Mobile UI Design
Join me for tomorrow’s webinar (6-12) on building awesome mobile apps with FireMonkey that adhere to Apple’s UI guidelines. Three different sessions are available, and you can register by going to:...
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Join me for CodeRage Mobile this week
CodeRage Mobile is starting tomorrow. You can sign up by going to http://www.embarcadero.com/coderage Below are my sessions, but you can view the entire schedule here: Tuesday, June 18th at 11:00am...
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Working with TTabControl on iOS
Tab Controls are very commonly used in mobile applications, especially on iOS. In Delphi and RAD Studio XE4 we include several samples that show you the different ways TTabControl can be used. If you...
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Sharing Text via SMS in your iOS apps
Delphi and RAD Studio XE4 provide support for Share Sheet, an iOS 6 feature for sharing text and images via social media, sending them to an AirPrint enabled printer, saving them back to the camera...
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Premium Style Pack for XE4 Users - Special RAD Offer
If you purchase RAD Studio, Delphi or C++Builder XE4 between now and June 30th, 2013, you can save up to $450 and also get access to two new style packs that work across Windows, Mac OS X and iOS. The...
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TListView iOS Samples from my webinar
Hi, If you attended my Mobile UI webinar or CodeRage sessions last week, you saw several TListView demos, including working with custom ItemAppearance modes. Those demos have been uploaded to our...
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Designing for different mobile form factors
There are several ways you can develop applications for multiple mobile form factors with XE4: • Use Alignment and Anchors >> This is demonstrated through our iOS FireMonkeyMobile samples, code...
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iOS UI Design PDF from my webinar
I created a pdf with detailed information on iOS User Interface Design which I covered during my webinar a couple of weeks ago and also during my CodeRage session. The pdf is 36 pages in total and...
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Android in Style
Seeing a product come to life is one of the most exciting moments for a Product Manager. I am really excited about Delphi for Android, and the fact that you, our customers, will be able to build...
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Native Pickers on Android
Today, I thought I would share some screenshots of the native pickers for Android. If you have done mobile development for iOS, you are likely familiar with the pickers for iOS and the components to...
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Cooking with InterBase on Android and iOS
If you own Delphi or RAD Studio XE4, you probably have used IBLite (free version of InterBase on iOS) or IBToGo for your database on iOS. With XE5, we will be bringing you IBLite for both iOS and...
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