Pascal on the iPhone

Olaf Monien, Holger Flick and I (Daniel Magin) are playing in our free time with a beta version from RemObjects. marc hoffman and his team did a great job to integrate the Oxygene stuff now also to the apple mac side. I have developed a lot of stuff on Xcode with Objective C and (my personal opinion) this shows me why i love pascal.

it was only some simple steps to produce a native iPhone Application in Delphi like style. Olaf and I have developed a test application to show the current location of our iPhone. Yeaaahhhh and all written in pascal (!).

for Design we use the original Apple Interface Builder. to develop the code in pascal remobjects is producing a pascal plugin in monotouch. also i use my original apple certificate in the IDE so i have deployed the application to my real iPhone. The iPhone App is full native compile. So it can be pushed later also to the iTunes appstore.

so it is only some time to wait to have a public Pascal compiler for the iPhone.

Here the Application on the iPhone Simulator

Here some Pascal Code

An here on my physical iPhone

regards

daniel

btw: think delphi!

iPhone 3.0 OS news

Everytime Apple Announce the new tech stuff for my lovely iPhone i am travling around. today i was visting a airline in duesseldorf airport for interbase training and DBOptimzer with All-Access (great tool!!!!!!!!!!) with MS-SQL apple starts the new features about iPhone 3.0 OS.

so i was sitting in my bed (hotel) and reading the stuff. bevor i typing all the great feautres you can read this on a great website with cool photos on:

LINK (read from down to up)

and yes copy&paste and spotlight on iPhone is coming!

 

regards daniel

Group Mail iPhone – iGroupMail new Version in iTunesStore

iGroupMail Version 1.2 is still now online in iTunesStore.

The new Version have some bug fixes for translations in diffrent Languages on iPhone OS 2.2

Update is free.

iTunesStoreLink for iGorupMail

regards daniel

Writing iPhone Software – iGroupMail

Many Years Delphi,

Many Years Pascal,

Many Years SQL,

Many Years CodeGeare Stuff,

no question i don’t leave the big Delphi Ship!!!
But looking also around what’s happen on other SDK’s i start to develope a Application for the iPhone. Writing with Delphi WebAppications for the iPhone is no Problem (i will blog about this later) but first of all i tried to write a native application for the iPhone.

Let me bring the hurdles in some lines (i will prepare a article with more details later). First of all is to understand the XCODE development system. Understand the diffrence between business logic (coding) and Presentation Layer with Interface Builder. These are TWO different Tools. So you must understand how to bring the Tools togehter (IBOutlet and IBActions).

Second Hurdle is the COCOA Language Objective-C Language .. You have here a complete different typing like in Delphi:

Example:

Button1.Color:=MyColor;  —> [Button1 SetColor:MyColor];

and also for

Button1.Color:=MyColor;
Button1.Align:=MyColor;

—> [Button1 SetColor:MyColor SetAlign:MyAlign];

But the biggest Hurdle is like changing to .net learning where are the classes. What is the name of the class to Include (uses). So i need about 2 weeks to understand how it works.

After all sending the App to Apple, Apple is realy testing the stuff and find some bugs for example the GUI Guidlines must be correct. No chance in my first relase and sending back to fix the bug. But after all i got it.

I decided to write a application you can create indenpend Email Groups with email adresses from the adressbook or manual added. With this group you can crete a email to Normal, CC, BCC.

You can find it here iGroupMail:

iTunesStroe iGroupMail

Now after my first online application i will prepare a more detail article like Diffrence between Delphi and XCODE Development System. And i also work on a example Delphi Webservice to iPhone, and much more…

regards daniel