Well, it’s been quiet on this blog for a while now. Delphi XE3 and XE4 have seen the daylight and not even a single post has appeared here about those. With the launch of Delphi XE5 and it’s promise of developing cross-platform applications for Android made me quite curious. I wanted to check it out as soon as possible, but we were in the middle of a big project for a client (a Warehouse Management Project written in Delhi), and the last thing we wanted to do was change our development environment from XE2 to the new shiny XE5. The last thing we wanted was Murphy sneaking in so close to the actual delivery of the WMS System.

Meanwhile things have calmed down a little, and I finally had the time to install Delphi XE5 in a new Virtual Machine on my Mac. Of course, the first thing you want to try out is build a simple dumb one button application and compile it for iOS and Android. And that is exactly what I did.