How Embarcadero users can make full use of FireMonkey

Learn more about the various FMX styles and benefits of FireMonkey by watching these videos:

• Customising Controls with FMX Styles, with Ray Konopka - discover how to leverage styles to customise individual controls as well as the entire user interface. Learn how to use the Style Designer to make your custom styles look their best.
• Native and Custom FireMonkey Styles - this video shows building a profile screen for your multi-device application using the FireMonkey framework with both native UI support and custom styling. Highlighted in the video are custom multi-device styles included in Embarcadero's premium style pack and custom styles from DelphiStyles.com.
• Useful Hints for Working with FMX Styles - In the CodeRage 2019 recording, Harry Stahl shows you how to get the most out of FMX Styles in RAD Studio.
• FireMonkey Multi-Device Design Live Q&A - Join CodeRage 2019 recording where Jim, Sarina, and some of the fantastic Embarcadero MVPs host a Q&A discussion all about FireMonkey.
• FireMonkey YouTube playlist - a collection of all the core FMX videos.

You can take a look at the FMX styles on the GetIt portal and download them right from within the IDE.

Animations, image and transition effects

Animations and effects are no longer just words you'd associate with the film and TV industry, with the rise of social media and more visually creative applications hitting the market, developers are having to step up their game to meet the expectations of the customers using their web, desktop and mobile applications. They want to be wowed and engaged.

Animations are complex. They can be started automatically or manually, with or without a delay, plus they can stop, start and go in reverse. FireMonkey has a range of animation subclasses that you can use for interpolations from a start value to an end value, interpolating through a series of values, as well as stepping through a list without interpolation.

With regards to image effects, the FireMonkey built-in ImageFX engine provides over 50 GPU-powered effects. These effects are nonvisual components that can be found in the Effects category on the Tool Palette. All the provided effects can be simply enabled or disabled by setting the Enabled flag from the Form Designer, or programmatically.

FireMonkey includes over twenty image transition effects, in which source pixels are progressively transformed into a target bitmap image, from simple fades to fancy banded swirls. The progress of the transformation is deterministic and can be set to an arbitrary percentage. This percentage can be animated to transition over time.

Find out more about the different animation, image effects and transitions you can do in this article by Anbarasan.

Top 9 FireMonkey How-To's

Hagpo Panosian has recently shared his most recommended how-to resources for FireMonkey that you can use to get the most out of the framework.

1. Creating great UIs with C++Builder and FireMonkey: app templates.
2. Powerful Delphi FireMonkey deployment manager tool.
3. Customise the appearance of the FireMonkey list view.
4. FireMonkey on Linux.
5. Writing software for multiple platforms and architectures with FireMonkey.
6. How to apply native controls in FireMonkey with Delphi and C++.
7. First steps with FMXLinux.
8. Learn how to select key entry types with the FMX.KeyboardTypes sample in RAD Studio for Android and iOS devices.
9. How to clone FireMonkey Objects.

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