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Marco Cantù
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Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.
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Paweł Głowacki
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Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.
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Previewing forms on devices

Delphi form designer gives us a “what you see is what you get” functionality, but we can go one step further and use Delphi’s built-in functionality to preview the form we are designing live on a physical device. For this, we will have to build from the Delphi samples and deploy them to our device, or download a special app published by Embarcadero Technologies and called FireUI App Preview from an online store.

With the FireUI App Preview app, you can preview the app as you are designing it live on a physical device. The Form Designer broadcasts the current form, with any changes applied by the developer, to all connected devices in real time. This app uses the App Tethering technology available in Delphi, where arbitrary apps written in either Delphi or C++Builder, desktop or mobile, can communicate with each other over a Wi-Fi network or using Bluetooth.

In this scenario, the Delphi IDE runs on a Windows desktop and communicates...

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Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.
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Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.
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