What’s new in RemObjects Hydra 4, including support for Delphi XE2, FireMonkey, Silverlight and true 64-bit support. Also and example of using Hydra to add FireMonkey visual controls to a Delphi 7

Four or five years ago, the software world was simple: if you were a commercial software developer, you were developing for Windows. But this has changed drastically with the advent of mobile platforms

I’ve bumped into a couple of wireless Android control apps lately, one targeted at developers and one targeted at users. The two apps rely on both your Android device and the computer

Further to my previous post on common problems installing and/or launching Android apps, here’s a little titbit to add into the mix. In that previous post I mentioned: Sometimes a small

On 27th January RemObjects released their first update to their Oxygene 5 products, Oxygene for .NET (aka Delphi Prism, aka Prism) and Oxygene for Java (aka Project “Cooper”). Oxygene for .NET v5 was

We’re hitting the ground running for 2012 and finished January with the first two product releases of the year. Hydra 4 Hydra 4 is a major new release for our .NET/Delphi

For all those working in Android development you should head along to the new Android Design web site. This new area on the Android developer’s site gives the low down on how

Sometimes you try and launch your Android application from Oxygene for Java and nothing much happens. Sometimes you the application builds successfully and then nothing appears on the device. Sometimes you go to

When I was working out how to use the Google Map control on Android devices i found it a little daunting with all the information scattered around the web, often missing out crucial

Windows 8 (currently in beta) introduces a new Metro UI that marc already talked about a while back. Metro apps can be written with .NET, native C++ and also with JavaScript. What that

When I first started looking at the Android SDK I quickly realised that events were set up differently to the frameworks I had worked with before. Instead of being defined as closures, or

Since Oxygene for Java is fully integrated into the Android tool chain, you can take advantage of cool features like wireless deployment and debugging. All you need is a rooted Android device (phone,

I’m happy to let you know that we have just posted the first set of events that RemObjects will be participating in this year on our event calendar at remobjects.com/events.

In Autumn 2011 I was approached by Nail Soup Ltd. about an Android development opportunity. Nail Soup had a client, a charitable organisation called Amber Foundation, who wanted some mobile applications built. Primarily

Recently, we already tried to work with the SQL Server 2012 LocalDB database. Now let’s try a more old-fashioned database, like Firebird Embedded. Again, we’ll modify the Sample Server application shipped

Publishing data is actually pretty easy. There are lots of ways to do that. Now securing and organizing your data is the important bit that requires some thought. The term we use to

We’re happy to announce that as of today, the Oxygene for Java sub-feed of Brian Long‘s blog “It’s a blong, blong, blong road…” will be syndicated on blogs.remobjects.com.

Over the holiday period i spent some time knocking up an introductory article that looks at getting Oxygene for Java set up for Android development, looking at an overview of how Android apps

I saw an article listing the Top 8 features in Java 7 and realized a number of them were already present in Oxygene for Java. Strings in Case Statements In Java they are

An introduction to mixing FireMonkey & VCL controls in the same application using RemObjects Hydra. FireMonkey is the new HD & 3D Visual Control framework introduced in Delphi XE2. Hydra allows you to

Threads are ways to run multiple things in parallel, at the same time. Each program in Oxygene has 1 or more threads, by default just one, which is the main thread, which is

 “View From The Top“ — Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, September 2011.

This is second article in my blog post series “Oxygene by Example”. While working with command line arguments in Prism is quite simple, the “Main” method has an array of string that holds

If you’ve been around in the computer industry a while then you may recall the history of JavaScript. It’s come a long way from from its premier as LiveScript back in

At the end of November 2011, RemObjects released Oxygene for Java, previously known as Project “Cooper” as per this official blog post and, for that matter, the press release. Anyone familiar with Delphi