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The concept of developing our own versatile component set, compatible across different frameworks and operating systems, emerged following our experience in crafting components for FMX. We were eager to provide users with the flexib...

TMS iCL is our Delphi iOS component library. The components are in fact wrappers around the iOS operating system level defined controls and are usable from a FireMonkey form. As iCL controls wrap iOS operating system contr...

TMS iCL is our Delphi iOS component library. The components are in fact wrappers around the iOS operating system level defined controls and are usable from a FireMonkey form. As iCL controls wrap iOS operating sys...

We've created a short (8 minute) presentation / demo video to show you how our newest native iOS peer 2 peer communication component in TMS iCL works. It shows how you can send an object and text via Bluetooth or local WiFi to nearby peers. Underlyin...

On the road, we carry a smartphone, in a couch we grab the tablet and in the office we sit behind the desk and use a desktop computer. In all scenarios though, we want to use applications that give us access to the same data and functions. Therefore,...

Note on June 1, 2018: This technique is deprecated as the zbar library is no longer maintained and does not have 64bit version. We recommend to use the native iOS barcode scanner component that is included in TMS iCL now. For an internal proj...

This week, we had a support question on Block Animations with TMS iCL, or in other words, how to animate for example a TTMSFMXNativeUIView? To be honest, after all the hard work around the TMS iCL components, demos and documentation there wasn't ...

Curious as we are, we wanted to test out our TMS iCL native iOS controls for FireMonkey today on the beta of iOS7 that was released yesterday at WWDC 2013. While there are some glitches with debugging, mainly due to the Delphi XE4 debugger itself, th...

In this article, we'll try to explain what TMS iCL is, what it isn't and why it can matter for your Delphi applications for iOS. What is TMS iCL? TMS iCL is a component library. It stands for iOS Component Library. It is a Delphi component libra...