The product matrix shows that Firemonkey currently supports iOS 4.2. Apple will be introducing iOS 5 shortly. Will Firemonkey be updated to support newer iOS features periodically (eg., iOS 5 and possibly other things)? Or just once-a-year when Delphi is updated?
Michael Swindell: Yes, since Firemonkey is 1.0 we're going to be updating early, often, and regularly. The first update is well underway, will address a lot of great feedback, and should be out before the end of the month. We are planning updates on a regular cadence, initially several quarterly.
(I'd love to see quarterly updates.)
Michael Swindell: We'll start out updating more often than quarterly, and settle into quarterly updates eventually. Embarcadero is behind FM in a big way, there is a lot of ongoing investment going on into this release, updates, performance enhancements, and future platform/feature support.
Greetings!
Time we mentioned what we're doing with TeeChart and Embarcadero's RAD Studio XE2!
Steema has been working with the new IDE for some time, preparing both VCL and FireMonkey versions of TeeChart for inclusion in the new programming environment. Agreed versions of RAD Studio XE2 will ship with TeeChart Standard VCL and TeeChart Lite Chart for FireMonkey. Steema are preparing installers for TeeChart Pro that we expect to be ready very soon. We'll be announcing availability of the new installers here; please watch this space. To review the current different versions of TeeChart and how they relate with XE2 please see the Feature Matrix.
Regards,
Steema team
