Multi-Device Designer

• RAD Studio XE7 delivers the only true single source solution for natively compiled applications on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
• A revolutionary new way to build a single user interface based on visual form designer that scales and adjust to different types of devices, form factors, and operating systems
• Develop your UI once and then view and adjust or customize it for each device type (mobile, tablet and desktop; iOS, Android, Windows and Mac)
• Make changes on the main user interface that are propagated to other device specific user interfaces; fine tune a device specific form factor without affecting the other views
• Customize layouts and styles for each device as desired or easily utilize the inherited style
• Predefined views including size and layout standards are included for many popular mobile device, tablet and desktop form factors. You can also add your own.
• Only one 'form class' is required across all of the form factors allowing the developer to create a single source file managing all of the common user interface events in one shared source file.

FireMonkey Behavior service

• A new service API that allows the framework and developer to query information about the device the app is running on to dynamically adjust itself for the form factor and platform
• UI element locations are automatically adjusted for each type of target device (for example, the position of tabs on different mobile platforms)

MultiView component

• The MultiView component is brand new unique FireMonkey component that utilizes the behavior services to dynamically displays itself depending on the form factor and desired platform behavior.
• The multi-view lays outs menus appropriately for a phone as a drawer and for a tablet as popup or docked menu

Enterprise Mobility Services

• Enterprise Mobility Services is a turnkey REST based MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) middleware stack that includes API hosting, data access, and SQL Database access and deployment, serving mobile, desktop and web application clients
• Data management across tiers through middleware that is stateless, restful, and scalable
• Create custom APIs for your business functionality
• High-performance enterprise database access for Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server Informix, SQL Server, and many more from a mobile application through the middleware
• Custom Mobile API management with REST/JSON through loadable modules
• Data access components for multi-tier data access through standard REST/JSON
• User, session, and API calls analytics and reporting using a web based interface
• Secure Data Storage Service on both servers and mobile devices
• Rapidly connect your apps to your enterprise APIs and databases and services on-premises or in a private cloud
• Flexible deployment license options. Purchase deployment licenses based on the numbers of users that access the Enterprise Mobility Services

App Connectivity with App Tethering, REST and Bluetooth

• With App Tethering, RAD Studio makes it extremely easy for apps to broadcast and find other apps to tether with over local WiFi or Bluetooth
• Extend existing VCL Windows apps with mobile companion apps or Bluetooth devices by simply adding a few components to each app
• Connect with Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE enabled gadgets like healthcare sensors and wearables to build unique and domain specific solutions
• Easily connect to REST APIs on any near field device to interact with that gadget
• Specific Bluetooth LE component to connect with power sipping micro gadgets

Parallel Computing Library

• The Parallel Computing library helps you exponentially increases performance making it easier to write multi-threaded applications that take advantage of multi-core CPUs
• Boost the performance of your existing VCL and FireMonkey applications, with a self-tuning thread pool
• Include the new System.Threading unit in your apps and you can do the following:
  • Parallel 'for' loops
  • Scheduling of tasks
  • Futures
  • Joining of multiple tasks and waiting for all to complete
• Easy integration for a significant performance boost

IDE and Development Tools Enhancements

• The new PAServer Manager is a Mac OS X tray app that allows you to start and manage multiple instances of PAServer (the Platform Assistant app for developing iOS and Mac OS X apps)
• Improved Subversion version control support with new Git version control support
• New integrated multi-device designer
• IDE support for adding Java classes to an Android apk
• IDE Guided Tours to help learn about RAD Studio features
• New Java2Delphi native bridge file generator for Android

RTL and VCL Enhancements

• New OmniXML library for faster performance, particularly on mobile platforms and easier selection of default XML engine
• Improved JSON low level processing
• Updated C++ STL library for iOS and new versions of Boost and Dinkumware Libraries for Win64
• Enhancements to the taskbar component introduced in XE6 to support with a new TJumpLists VCL component for Windows Taskbar Jump Lists
• New unit for Web encoding and decoding
• Hundreds of quality and performance improvements

Object Pascal Language Enhancements

• Improved initialization for dynamic arrays
• Mix and match constant and dynamic arrays
• String-like operations on dynamic arrays including + operator concatenation, Insert and Delete
• An array constructor can be used to specify an initial value of a global dynamic array variable
• Also, generics containers optimizations

Database and FireDAC Enhancements

• IBLite embeddable database now available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS
• FireDAC streaming support for blob fields and support for MSSQL file streams
• Support for DBMS API command native timeouts
• FireDAC connection parameters are now displayed in the Object Inspector as a record
• Data Explorer enhancements (primary keys and fields are displayed, foreign keys and fields are displayed, sequences/generators are now displayed)
• Other FireDAC enhancements including a new IBLite driver for desktop and mobile

FireMonkey Enhancements

• TEdit and TCalendar controls haves been rewritten to supportutilize a new presentation architecture: you choose whether you want the control to use the standard styled presentation or a platform native control presentation on iOS dynamically
• Multi monitor support on desktop platforms
• The TBannerAd component now usessupports the Google Mobile Ads API from Google Play Services
• Immersive full screen mode on Android KitKat
• TListView pull to refresh on iOS and Android