What's new in RAD Studio XE7

Detail：http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE7/en/What%27s_New_in_Delphi_and_C%2B%2BBuilder_XE7

21.0.17017.3725

udp1:21.0.17707.5020

Bug fix list for RAD Studio XE7

http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/44049

 

RAD Studio XE7 is a must-have upgrade for all developers and is the
newest version of the award winning, multi-device app development
solution for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, gadgets, and wearables. There
are great Windows and VCL features, a new Parallel Programming Library,
significant FireMonkey enhancements for building multi-device apps, new
Enterprise Mobility Services, and enhancements for connecting with
gadgets and wearables, thanks to the new Bluetooth support.      

                                                                         

xe7 增加了git，提升了svn插件功能，svn增加了合并和切换分支的功能，在上面的网址里有介绍。

When using Subversion support, now you can:

• Use the new Subversion ChangeList labels to group your changed files before committing them to your remote repository.
• Use the new SVN merge dialog box to start merging your changes from the IDE
• Use the new Subversion switching branches feature to point your local repository changes to a new branch of your remote repository. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Key New Features	Benefits
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
Internet of Things 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