Here’s a video showing a simple FireMonkey arcade style game. It looks simple enough and reasonably fast. Does anyone know if there are any FireMonkey applications on the AppStore?
FireMonkey Physics Engine?
Take a look at this video. It seems to show FireMonkey wit some form of Physics engine. Is this “out-of-the-box”? I haven’t found it. Anyway, cool stuff. Angry FireMonkeys here we come!!
FireMonkey Tips
Over at AnalogMachine.org there is a great post outlining tips and tricks for FireMonkey and Delphi XE2. Of you’re in the process of creating a FireMonkey app and you have a Win32 Delphi heritage this is a proverbial must read. Find out more here: http://blog.analogmachine.org/2011/09/04/useful-tips-for-firemonkey-and-delphi-xe2/ Anyone else got some, “this has taken me 30 minutes [...]
FireMonkey Apps in Apple’s AppStore
I wonder who will be first to get a FireMonkey Delphi application into the app store. Put a comment and a link in the comments if you have, or know of, a FireMonkey App being released for iOS.
XE2 Wiki
It looks as if Embarcadero has created a wiki to disminate information. Here’s the entry showing the new features of Delphi XE2:
XE2 – Delphi for the Mac & iOS Has Landed!!
If you have a maintenance license with Embaracadero you should have reveived an email with your log-in details. I got mine yesterday. So what do people think? What are your first impressions? Put your comments below:
VCL and the FireMonkey Framework (FMX)
We all know and love the VCL. So the qurstion looming large is how will the new FireMonkey son-of-VCL measure up? Lars Fosdal has a great blog post showing the difference and thankfully the similarities of the VCL and the new FireMonkey framework, which has is know as FMX. He sums it up as, This [...]
FireMonkey’s 3D Demo
Embarcadero is starting to relax its NDA for beta testers. So we’re starting to see some more videos and discussion. In this video Marco Cantu demonstrates the 3D capabilities of FireMonkey at design time.
Details of Third Party XE2 & FireMonkey Support
DevExpress is one of my favorite Delphi component vendors. So I was interested to read Julian Bucknall’s blog post outlining DevExpress’ plans for XE2, 64 bit and FireMonkey. While DevExpress will fully support VCL in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors, when it comes to FireMonkey he said, we’re going to take a long [...]
Delphi FireMonkey, iOS and the Free Pascal Compiler
In this forum post, we can read some interesting comments by Michael Swindell from Embarcadero: Re FPC, we will be coming out with a Delphi ARM compiler at some point, but we’re appreciative that FPC is available today for ARM/iOS and we were able to leverage to get FireMonkey to iOS. So it’s just a [...]