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> I thought they did do this? I never tried but I got a lot of emails about iOS & Android next to Desktop from them up until a few years ago when unsubscribed t
by Svip 7y ago
> I thought they did do this? I never tried but I got a lot of emails about iOS & Android next to Desktop from them up until a few years ago when unsubscribed to their mailing list.
Indeed they do, but that's assuming those cross-platform features are any good. No one I've heard of uses Delphi for Android and iOS development. As a Delphi house, when we actually needed to develop an Android app, we went with Java and Google's Android Studio, because Delphi's offering simply wasn't mature enough. Nor was it useful to use any advance third-party libraries in your app.
Similarly, their MacOS and Linux offerings (not the IDE, because that's Windows only) aren't particularly good either. It's only really the Windows verion that gets official improvements, and FreePascal basically handles the Linux compiler. Which is fine, I guess.
But it's rather a hassle to maintain a codebase for cross-platform clients, since you actually need to fiddle with your code between Delphi and FreePascal.
- tluyben2 7y agoAh yeah, that sounds bad. Shame, it could've been nice, theoretically. I tried Kylix back in the day and hoped that would be the way forward (I actually bought shares in Borland/Inprise based on the Kylix announcement; it made me a lot of money, but I was young and naive, I now understand that it was a lottery and I got in and out in time by cheer chance). They really messed it all up...