Delphi XE5 - The quickest way C# developers can produce Apps

With Delphi XE5, a software developer can produce apps for both iOS and Android from the same code base. But which developers will want to do this?

If you are an iOS developer, it is most likely you are comfortable just developing app for Apple devices and that the company you work for employs Android developers for the Android version and vis versa. And you have no need or want to learn a new language to get the same results.

However, if you are a C# developer then Delphi XE5 might be the quickest way to develop Apps. I found moving from Delphi to C# very easy and after 1 day was developing C# web services. I also found it easy switching back to Delphi after using C# for some months.

So if you are a .Net developer then I would recommend you at least have a look at Delphi XE5.

Delphi XE4 - The Future Of Software Development

I have been using Delphi for some years now and have also done development with XCode and DotNet, so was very interested in the latest version of Delphi. It seems to do something unique, you can develop software to be deployed to various different devices and operating systems. From what I have seem developers are successfully using Delphi to produce Apps for iPhone and iPad, the surprising thing is that they are true native apps and do not rely on any virtual machine like Mono.

It does sound almost like development nirvana, where you can develop the business code and from a single code base deploy to different operating systems and devices, this surely is the future of software development. Recently when I saw demos of PhoneGap I thought this was the future, but after reading an article about Facebook and their problems with HTML5 and the fact they are moving back to native apps, I was not sure which way was the future, HTML5, PhoneGap, Mono or XCode, Android and DotNet. I have not used XE4 yet, but I am looking forward to using it and exploring what potential it might have.