Hello all!
Hello all!
I'm sure some of you will have seen me around SO and the official forums in the past. My names Scott, and I've been focused on Delphi since late 2010 (though I've made small projects in it back as far as 2005). I've been working with Firemonkey primarily for the past 2 years but I'm moving between VCL a little more now.
I've avoided Google+ in the past but figured that this'd be a good place to hang out and discuss development ideas :)
I'm sure some of you will have seen me around SO and the official forums in the past. My names Scott, and I've been focused on Delphi since late 2010 (though I've made small projects in it back as far as 2005). I've been working with Firemonkey primarily for the past 2 years but I'm moving between VCL a little more now.
I've avoided Google+ in the past but figured that this'd be a good place to hang out and discuss development ideas :)
Wow, firemonkey for 2 years. If you believe the hype that some people put out, you should have not been able to accomplish anything in that time :-) Could you describe the stuff you have been doing so we can have some idea of how things are going in FM among people who actually do work and don't just whine :-)
ReplyDeleteHi David. Most of the projects I've publicly released have been FMX and all of them are on Windows. I use FMX for the UI primarily, and rely on RTL and Windows API for a lot of functionality. I've started building for Android but have nothing release-ready just yet.
ReplyDeleteFMX is fantastic for creative freedom. It's not quite there for cross-platform (i.e. no platform-exclusive core features such as Windows messages, or Android service applications) but in terms of the UI, I refuse to move away from it. Being able to get away from message boxes and other 'UX interference' is fantastic - for example, I much prefer to use a bottom-aligned layout object with my message and an icon inside rather than using ShowMessage().
Anyone wanting to use FMX should feel comfortable with the design side of things. Again, it's far from a great functional framework beyond the basics/standalone applications, but the RTL can handle most of the nitty gritty while FMX is my go-to choice for UI. I'd probably compare it to JQuery + HTML5 in all honesty.