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Android, General Thoughts, iOS, Mobile OS Market, RAD Delphi, windows8

The new RAD Delphi XE6 was released

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Note, this blog states the obvious.

Again I find myself in the process of waiting/reinstalling the new versions of the miscellaneous components — the I’ve bought. Each company got its own pace of releasing their updated set of components to their subscribers.

Some of them, got a hand of the beta testing of the RAD Delphi, and start to modify their components code, even before the official release of the development environment.

On other cases such as the Delphi Jedi Component Set — The  process seems to be a work in progress all the time. Due to the fact that it is defined as an opensource project. So many bugs, and improvements are being fixed, and added/modified almost everyday.

Yet, nowadays, that there is the Web, and all the social networks such as twitter/linkedin/facebook and so on — It seems that the wealth and variety of the set of libraries I come to find each and everyday, are much  more than what I thought there would be.

So It is good to get updated with many new tools, and utilities. You can call me a compulsive sourcecode collector. And due to the fact that I like the most the OOP with Pascal — I find everyday, new ways of coding in the same language that I happen to grow up with.

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I didn’t had the chance yet, to cover all the different modifications that were added to the RAD Delphi XE6 —  itself… Though, I ran a couple of sample demo codes. I’ll be at this in the coming days.

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GeoMaping software Mobile & Desktop

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A short post about geomapping software; that I’ve encountered (on one way or another). The list is partial, and not the fullest current list of products of that sort, that you might find.

A list of Comparison of geographic information systems software on wikipedia.

Earth mapping:

Earth mapping software, that is being used mostly with GPS component to navigate:

  • Waze – Social mapping app, Mobile app (iOS/Android/Win8)
  • MapQuest – Mobile app
  • iGo NAVNGO – Can be found as a Mobile app for cellular devices (using iOS/Android/Win Mobile). Or as installed using a proprietary device.

Star systems and galaxy mapping / astronomy apps:

As a programmer I managed to play a little with the abilities of KML (Keyhole markup lanaguage) — I first encountered it when I had a list of locations which needed to be marked upon GeoLocations… I used it with the GoogleEarth engine.

Basically KML enables you to add layer of information, which can be presented in various ways upon the GeoPresentaion of an area. You can add markers/pictures/geometric objects/path to mark roads — etc’.

Due to the fact that KML is a very well defined structure, I ported the KML I created to a iGO NAVNGO system — that could read the KML file as well..

Android, iOS, Mobile OS Market, RAD Delphi, windows8

Delphi XE5 beta6 testing for Windows/Android/iOS/MacOSX

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I started checking the new XE5 beta 6. It is, as being a beta, a little unstable, yet from first testing I would highlight the following:

  1. Very good – Integration with the iOS & android SDK/NDK
  2. Very good and ease of deploying applications (to the android at least – that’s what I first checked).
  3. Ran bunch of demo applications which were under …/FiremonkeyMobile path. About 10 demos, 2 worked perfectly… yet all the other halted the compilation/deployment – due to reasons that I didn’t check deep enough… After tweeking some of the none working on the android platform, I managed to run most of them.
  4. I ran all through, all the availables Firemonkey sample demos, that are supplied when installing the XE — and modified them for use on mobile devices. Seems that about 30% could run without a problem – on mobile — yet the rest required a more enhanced modification of the code.
  5. In addition, I’ve modified a code that was originally was written using XE4, for compilation to iOS devices. It made use of the datasnap and the binding of data to a TListView. Slight modification of it made it useable on the android platform as well… here is a sample tast
  6. On my ToDo.list are:
    • Create a demo app that uses SQLite on android…. With a big DB about 1mil records 1gb sized.
    • Checking the ability of local Mobile DB, such as the SQLite on iOS, and the deployment process of SQLite DB on android.
    • See how a deployment of DataSnap on the android works, (done that, seems that all that was required is to set in the android uses/options ‘the internet connection’ to on the app security switches)
    • Reintroduction of the ability to display a 3d object such as .3ds file. With proper setting of the meshes on it.