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Multi-Device Designer
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- C++Builder XE7 delivers the only true single source solution for natively compiled applications on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
- A revolutionary new way to build a single user interface based on visual form designer that scales and adjust to different types of devices, form factors, and operating systems.
- Develop your UI once and then view and adjust or customize it for each device type (mobile, tablet and desktop; iOS, Android, Windows and Mac).
- Make changes on the main user interface that are propagated to other device specific user interfaces; fine tune a device specific form factor without affecting the other views.
- Customize layouts and styles for each device as desired or easily utilize the inherited style
- Predefined views including size and layout standards are included for many popular mobile device, tablet and desktop form factors. You can also add your own.
- Only one "form class" is required across all of the form factors allowing the developer to create a single source file managing all of the common user interface events in one shared source file.
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FireMonkey Behavior service
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- A new service API that allows the framework and developer to query information about the device the app is running on to dynamically adjust itself for the form factor and platform
- UI element locations are automatically adjusted for each type of target device (for example, the position of tabs on different mobile platforms)
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MultiView component
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- The MultiView component is brand new, unique FireMonkey component that utilizes the behavior services to dynamically display itself depending on the form factor and desired platform behavior
- The multi-view lays out menus appropriately for a phone as a drawer and for a tablet as popup or docked menu
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Enterprise Mobility Services
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- Enterprise Mobility Services is a turnkey REST based MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) middleware stack that includes API hosting, data access, and SQL Database access and deployment, serving mobile, desktop and web application clients
- Data management across tiers through middleware that is stateless, restful, and scalable
- Create custom APIs for your business functionality
- High-performance enterprise database access for Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server Informix, SQL Server, and many more from a mobile application through the middleware
- Custom Mobile API management with REST/JSON through loadable modules
- Data access components for multi-tier data access through standard REST/JSON
- User, session, and API calls analytics and reporting using a web based interface
- Secure Data Storage Service on both servers and mobile devices
- Rapidly connect your apps to your enterprise APIs and databases and services on-premises or in a private cloud
- Flexible deployment license options. Purchase deployment licenses based on the numbers of users that access the Enterprise Mobility Services
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App Connectivity with App Tethering, REST and Bluetooth
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- With App Tethering, C++Builder makes it extremely easy for apps to broadcast and find other apps to tether with over local WiFi or Bluetooth
- Extend existing VCL Windows apps with mobile companion apps or Bluetooth devices by simply adding a few components to each app
- Connect with Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE enabled gadgets like healthcare sensors and wearables to build unique and domain specific solutions
- Easily connect to REST APIs on any near field device to interact with that gadget
- Specific Bluetooth LE component to connect with power sipping micro gadgets
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Parallel Computing Library
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- The Parallel Computing library helps you exponentially increases performance making it easier to write multi-threaded applications that take advantage of multi-core CPUs
- Boost the performance of your existing VCL and FireMonkey applications, with a self-tuning thread pool
- Include the new System.Threading unit in your apps and you can do the following:
- Parallel 'for' loops
- Scheduling of tasks
- Futures
- Joining of multiple tasks and waiting for all to complete
- Easy integration for a significant performance boost
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IDE and Development Tools Enhancements
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- The new PAServer Manager is a Mac OS X tray app that allows you to start and manage multiple instances of PAServer (the Platform Assistant app for developing iOS and Mac OS X apps)
- Improved Subversion version control support with new Git version control support
- New integrated multi-device designer
- IDE support for adding Java classes to an Android apk
- IDE Guided Tours to help learn about C++Builder features
- New Java2Delphi native bridge file generator for Android
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RTL and VCL Enhancements
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- New OmniXML library for faster performance, particularly on mobile platforms and easier selection of default XML engine
- Improved JSON low level processing
- Updated C++ STL library for iOS and new versions of Boost and Dinkumware Libraries for Win64
- Enhancements to the taskbar component introduced in XE6 to support with a new TJumpLists VCL component for Windows Taskbar Jump Lists
- New unit for Web encoding and decoding
- Hundreds of quality and performance improvements
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Object Pascal Language Enhancements
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- Improved initialization for dynamic arrays
- Mix and match constant and dynamic arrays
- String-like operations on dynamic arrays including + operator concatenation, Insert and Delete
- An array constructor can be used to specify an initial value of a global dynamic array variable
- Also, generics containers optimizations
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Database and FireDAC Enhancements
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- IBLite embeddable database now available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS
- FireDAC streaming support for blob fields and support for MSSQL file streams
- Support for DBMS API command native timeouts
- FireDAC connection parameters are now displayed in the Object Inspector as a record
- Data Explorer enhancements (primary keys and fields are displayed, foreign keys and fields are displayed, sequences/generators are now displayed)
- Other FireDAC enhancements including a new IBLite driver for desktop and mobile
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FireMonkey Enhancements
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- TEdit and TCalendar controls utilize a new presentation architecture: you choose whether you want the control to use the standard styled presentation or a platform native presentation on iOS dynamically
- Multi monitor support on desktop platforms
- TBannerAd component supports the Google Mobile Ads API from Google Play Services
- Immersive full screen mode on Android KitKat
- TListView pull to refresh on iOS and Android
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