We had a lot of great entries in our RAD Studio 10.3 Rio t-shirt design contest. The top 10 most popular designers, based on community vote, and 10 random voters are winning a shirt with the design we selected from the top designs. Here are...

In RAD Studio 10.3, we’re making a number of great improvements to the user interface and usability. Concretely, that’s not just looks: we are carefully making improvements in how to interact with the IDE. Last week, we looked at changes ...

Beside inline variable declarations, Delphi 10.3 is going to offer another new Object Pascal language extension, custom managed records

The coming 10.3 version of Delphi introduces a very handy feature to the language, local inline variables with local scope and type inference.

With the coming 10.3 release, RAD Studio R&D and PM teams are making Delphi's new directions in memory management official.  A few years back, when Embarcadero started building new Delphi compilers for platforms other than Windows there ...

Before 10.3 Rio when you used a a platform-native control, like TWebBrowser or TMediaPlayer, you were not able to put other controls on top of them. That stacking of controls is knowns as Z-Order. This was especially annoying when you...

In recent RAD Studio releases, we’ve paid a lot of attention to the IDE’s user interface. In 10.2.2, we added a dark theme (one of the most popular changes we’ve made!) and updated the component icons. In RAD Studio 10.3, we have a ...

On October 17, I did an InterBase webinar on using Change Views to simplify data change tracking.  Change Views allows you to reduce your network traffic, keep mobile data costs down and speed up your development time by syncing only

You’re short on time, and cash, so where can you go to learn new skills to improve your app UIs? There are a ton of free, or nearly free, on-demand resources if you know where to look.   Enroll in free,

Over 20% of users abandon an application after using it the first time (per Localytics). How can you design your mobile app to avoid being one of these casualties? Start out by designing your application with mobile in mind. You can’t

What is AppAnalytics? A few years ago, Embarcadero introduced the AppAnalytics technology, a simple and effective way to add in-app analytics to VCL and FMX applications using ready-to-use components and a paid SaaS offering for the AppAnalytics backend. Since introducing the service,

I'm a big proponent of practical, usable UIs that are easy to understand and pleasant to look at. As an ongoing series, there are a number of blogs posts on UI design. How To Design a Great UI A practical approach to taking a mockup

Welcome back! This is the third post on a series on practical UI design, an approach to creating usable, good-looking UIs when you are not a UX expert. In Part 1, we looked at some basic principles of UI design, a

An ongoing project we have is to ensure more popular, well-known C++ libraries are updated to work with C++Builder, and available to you from within GetIt, our package manager. You may have seen a post earlier this year about real-world

この記事は Eli M. による Secrets Of FireDac: Last Inserted Auto Generated Id And Enterprise Connectors の抄訳です。  自動インクリメントフィールドがあるテーブルにデータを挿入するとき、一般的にはSQLクエリを使用して新しく作成されたレコードの最後に挿入されたIDを取得します。TFDQueryを使用してINSERTクエリを実行し、続いて、SELECTクエリを実行すれば、新しく挿入された自動インクリメントIDを取得できます。 異なるデータベースには、これを実現するために異なるSQLクエリがあります。 たとえば、MySQLには、LAST_INSERT_ID（例：SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID））という名前で実行できるSELECTクエリ関数があります。 このSELECT文を直接実行するか、FireDAC内蔵の機能を使用することができます…

Last week a (large) customer sent me an email indicating he was experiencing issues when compiling the same project on different machines. Turned out the difference was in the source code files format and the root cause was a unit

Welcome back! Last time, we discussed a typical UX design flow, and how to tackle this if you do not have access to a UX designer. We also looked at some key usability principles, and saw an example ‘bad’ user interface

How can you be sure you’ve applied the latest updates for your RAD Studio, Delphi, or C++Builder version? After installing the IDE, there may be updates that were released since the last product installer.   Patches for Version 10.2.3 You can

GetIt is the package manager built into RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder. It includes 214 packages in 8 different categories. 38 Library packages 121 Component packages 53 Internet of Things components 60 Trials 4 Industry Templates 2 IDE Plugins 3

Delphi User Group Meeting, London A couple of weeks ago I was in London for personal reasons and teamed up with the UK Developers Group to attend their monthly meeting and talk about Delphi. I offered an introductory talk, some in depth

How do you design a user interface (UI) to be understandable and easy to interact with? In this series, I’ll give some thoughts on good design, combined with examples. This series is intended as practical UI design advice for small teams

I haven't blogged much here in September, because I wrote two blog posts on the Embarcadero community site (given they were more official blog posts -- I generally blog on my personal blogs and the content is surfaced on the Embarcadero community):

The Market Today To stay relevant, be successful and reach users, mobile app developers need to develop multi-device apps. Looking at the latest mobile OS market share stats, iOS and Android is split down the middle in the US, with iOS being

Everyone knows Delphi is the best Rapid Application Development tool. Delphi, C++Builder, and RAD Studio set the standard that everyone else is still trying to follow. Nothing will get you to market quicker with a great native experience for your

今週初めにAppleはiOSの最新リリースであるiOS 12をリリースしました。私たちは10.2 Tokyo Release 3と10.3 Carnival BetaでiOS 12をテストしています。