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INTEGRATED COMPILERS AND TOOLCHAINS
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- New in XE8! iOS 64 bit Object Pascal compiler and toolchain
- New in XE8! iOS 64 bit C++ compiler and toolchain
- New in XE8! Support for iOS Universal Apps (including both 32 bit and 64 bit binaries in an app bundle)
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FMX APPLICATION PLATFORM (FIREMONKEY)
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- New in XE8! FireUI Mobile Previews
- New in XE8! Multi-Device Preview
- New in XE8! Extended Multi Device Designer views styling, including universal styling and Windows styles customization
- New in XE8! FireUI Device Manager, to edit the specifications of the available devices and add more
- New in XE8! Memo platform controls for iOS
- New in XE8! ListView platform controls for iOS
- New in XE8! Calendar platform controls for iOS
- New in XE8! Switch platform controls for iOS
- New in XE8! MapView component for mobile platforms (iOS and Android) supporting platform specific interactive mapping libraries (respectively, by Apple and Google)
- New in XE8! WebBrowser component for Windows
- New in XE8! WebBrowser component for OS X
- New in XE8! Improved mixing of platform and styled components, with new platform styling options for iOS and controls Z-order improvements (with ControlType property for non-platform controls)
- New in XE8! ImageList component for FireMonkey
- New in XE8! Enhancements in FireMonkey multimedia support
- New in XE8! Support for higher resolutions in Camera components
- New in XE8! Android Lollipop specific style enabled by default (Android only)
- New in XE8! FireMonkey Applications Analytics Support*
* Requires a specific contract and by-volume fee for storing run-time analytics data and accessing it - New in XE8! App Tethering extensions and protocol enhancements
- New in XE8! Bluetooth framework improvements and new TBluetooth component for classic Bluetooth
- New in XE8! Proximity support based on the "beacons" technology (including the iBeacon and AltBeacon standards) for iOS, Android, and OS X
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VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY (VCL)
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- New in XE8! VCL Font Scaling improvements
- New in XE8! VCL Applications Analytics Support*
* Requires a specific contract and by-volume fee for storing run-time analytics data and accessing it - New in XE8! VCL App Tethering extensions and protocol enhancements
- New in XE8! Bluetooth framework improvements and new TBluetooth component for classic Bluetooth
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LANGUAGE AND RUNTIME LIBRARY FEATURES
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- New in XE8! Simplified array initialization and construction for C++ Clang-based compilers
- New in XE8! iOS 64-bit API headers and RTL integration for Delphi and C++
- New in XE8! Box2D physics engine
- New in XE8! Object Pascal interfaces for the Box2D physics engine
- New in XE8! New System.Hash RTL unit, with hash functions to support the new HTTP framework
- New in XE8! New HTTP client framework, mapped to platforms libraries on all supported platforms
- New in XE8! New NetHTTPClient and NetHTTPRequest components, offering easy access to the HTTP client framework
- New in XE8! Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on Windows
- New in XE8! Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on OS X
- New in XE8! Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on mobile platforms (iOS and Android)
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PERSONAL DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY
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- New in XE8! GetIt Package Manager for easy discovery, download and update of source code libraries, components, and other features from Embarcadero GetIt servers
- New in XE8! Configuration settings migration tool, to migrate configurations of older versions of the product to a newer version, or between different installations of the same version
- New in XE8! Start Here page improvements
- New in XE8! extra code refactoring, live syntax checking, metrics, and more integrated right into the IDE
- New in XE8! Project Manager enhancements, with the support for adding database files and simplifying their deployment
- New in XE8! Improved installation experience and reduced installation footprint
- New in XE8! Virtual form positioner for FireMonkey designer
- New in XE8! Project Statistics provides developers with a clear picture of team productivity with activity tracking.
- New in XE8! Clipboard History keeps a record of clipboard contents so developers can paste content previously copied.
- New in XE8! Multi-Paste Support performs the same paste operation on multiple source code lines at once.
- New in XE8! Modeless and Context-Sensitive Refactoring support which includes: renaming variables, classes, field and properties, inlining, introducing and splitting local variables, removing unused variables, eliminating with statements,
extracting methods, adding parameters, and moving classes to a different unit (Object Pascal language only).
- New in XE8! Stack Bookmarks improves code navigation.
- New in XE8! Parenthesis Matching provides a visual queue to keep code clear.
- New in XE8! Flow Control Highlighting provides visual representation of flow jumps in code directly in the editor.
- New in XE8! Structural Highlighting
- New in XE8! Code Navigation Toolbar places classes and methods into a drop down box for easy in-code navigation (Object Pascal language only).
- New in XE8! Smart Keys and Smart Symbol Search (Object Pascal language only)
- New in XE8! Code Analysis tracks code quality with several code statistics like length parameters, nested statements, and cyclomatic complexity (Object Pascal language only).
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SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT
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- Enhanced in XE8! Version Insight – Integrated framework for supporting source code management tooling inside the IDE
- Enhanced in XE8! Subversion integration into the IDE, including change list labels, SVN merge dialog, branches switching and more
- Enhanced in XE8! Git version control integration into the IDE, now including authentication, Push and Pull changes to and from remote repositories
- Introduced in XE8! Mercurial version control integration into the IDE (supports cloning your remote repository, commit changes locally, show log data)
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INTEGRATED UNIT TESTING
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- New in XE8! Integrated unit testing with the DUnitX testing framework
- Updated in XE8! Unit test wizards for quick and easy unit test and unit test project creation
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DATABASE
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- New in XE8! Core DB.PAS TField optimizations
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FIREDAC MULTI-DEVICE DATA ACCESS LIBRARY
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- New in XE8! FireDAC Teradata database support, based on the Teradata database ODBC driver
- New in XE8! FireDAC support for XE7 Change Views
- New in XE8! FireDAC support for change notifications
- New in XE8! Improved FireDAC updates management
- New in XE8! Tools and scripts to help migration of dbExpress code to FireDAC
- Updated in XE8! iOS and Android mobile database support, including SQLite, InterBase ToGo and IBLite
- Updated in XE8! Comprehensive support for SQLite v3.+ database, including "smart" data type recognition, supporting both dynamic and static linking
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ENTERPRISE MOBILITY SERVICES
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- New in XE8! FireDAC / EMS integration improvements, specifically focused on updates management
- New in XE8! EMS Push Notifications server support for iOS and Android
- New in XE8! EMS external credentials support
- New in XE8! Extended EMS Administrative API, now with EMS Installation and EMS Push Resources
- New in XE8! Database Connection Pooling and other EMS optimizations
- New in XE8! New EMSClientAPI component to simplify EMS client side development
- Enhanced in XE8! User, groups, sessions, and API calls analytics and reporting using a web based interface using the EMS Console
- New in XE8! Ability to export data from EMS Console to .CSV files
- New in XE8! Improved analytics for users and groups
- New in XE8! EMS client application to manage user accounts
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DATASNAP CONNECTORS
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- Enhanced in XE8! DataSnap mobile connectors for ObjectiveC, supporting iOS 7 and iOS 8 SDKs
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INCLUDED DATABASES
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- Enhanced in XE8! InterBase XE7 Developer Edition – up to 20 users and 80 logical connections
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LICENSING AND TOOL MANAGEABILITY
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- Enhanced in XE8! Earlier version licenses included in network licenses (Delphi 2007- XE7, C++ Builder 2007-XE5, HTML5 Builder XE3, RadPHP XE2). Delphi 7 and C++Builder 6 available separately
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