On the Mac you need to install a platform assistant tool that aids in deployment for iOS and Mac OS. After we purchased a real Enterprise edition of the Delphi XE5 RAD studio, I moved to using my own Mac.
Then you can sign up for a small or large subscription service. Initial month of usage was free when I tried this out, early on.
They do have a “Mac in the cloud” that you can sign up for and the setup is straightforward and integrated into the Delphi XE5 interface as well. For iOS, you must have a Mac setup with XCode and be ready for development with your certificates setup and installed from Apple. They can also be adjusted after installation for updates and things with settings in the interface. For Android, Delphi XE5 will install those for you on your Windows platform during the regular installation. Since Delphi XE5, like most of these tools, relies on the platform SDKs and JDKs, you must have those installed. There is a great deal of setup and overhead required to do multi-platform development. In either case, this additional layer adds bulk to the app on the Android side and decidedly adds performance issues as the translations are made for components through the library. For Android, it is more seamlessly integrated into the completed app, as a FireMonkey library is deployed with the app. Embarcadero accomplishes this using their FireMonkey library. Delphi XE5 allows developers to develop apps in Object Pascal in the Delphi IDE and deploy them to Win32, Win64, iOS devices, Android Devices and the Mac, all from one codebase. Embarcadero’s RAD Studio XE5 includes Delphi and/or C++ versions of their software and most recent version was released in August 2013. Getting Started with Multiplatform Developmentĭelphi XE5 is based on the Object Pascal language and has had a huge following for years. In part two of this blog I will detail what I learned through the process of redeveloping an app with Delphi XE5. In part one of this blog, I discussed the benefits of using one codebase and why multi-platform development is attractive to developers and management.
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