With many new features introduced in Delphi (and C++Builder) XE8, some developers have the impression there is little in it for Windows VCL developers, not interested in mobile. In fact, there is a plethora of new features in XE8, even if you don't care about mobile and FireMonkey. With many new features introduced in Delphi (and C++Builder) XE8, some developers have the impression there is little in it for Windows VCL developers, not interested in mobile. In fact, there is a plethora of new features in XE8, even if you don't care about mobile and FireMonkey. Here is an incomplete summary.

Delphi and C++ Builder camera component for Android.

uses Android Camera API
available for Delphi/C++ Builder XE5 - XE8
source code included in full version
royalty free distribution in applications

Including extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) packages for data warehousing and business automation. Visual Importer ETL Enterprise includes graphical tools and wizards for building and debugging automation packages; Actions for performing work-flow functions such as FTP operations, executing SQL statements, and file manipulations; data sources and destinations for extracting and loading data; Unlike DTS, SSIS and Oracle Warehouse builder, Visual Importer ETL Enterprise can send and receive emails and process attachments as well. By combining simple ETL Package Actions together Visual Importer ETL Enterprise helps businesses and Fortune 100 companies to automate complicated business processes and everyday tasks.

FastReport 5 VCL is an add-on component that allows your application to generate reports quickly and efficiently. FastReportВ® provides all the necessary tools to develop reports, including a visual report designer, a reporting core, and a preview window. It can be used in the Embarcadero (ex Borland and CodeGear) Delphi 4-XE6, C++Builder 6-XE8.

Delphi component for serial communication for Android.

Features:

Communication with devices connected to serial port
Available for Delphi/C++ Builder XE5 - XE7
Source code included in full version
Royalty free distribution in applications

The current release of IP*Works! Zip allows developers to easily integrate compression and decompression into applications using the Zip, Tar, Gzip, 7-Zip, Bzip2, ZCompress, or Jar standards for compression. The IP*Works! Zip components were built from the ground up combining exceptional speed with an excellent data compression ratio.

Delphi and C++ Builder optical barcode recognition component for FireMonkey applications.

Working on XE8

Delphi and C++ Builder serial communication component for Windows.

Pika Software Builder is a Windows application development tool for beginners and professionals alike. Create your project using the WYSIWYG designer and export your app as a native Win32 executable. With Pika, database support comes standard: build apps that interact with your Access, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle database.

YuNetSurf is a HTML5 parser and tree builder with CSS3 tokeniser, parser, and selection engine for Delphi (Embarcadero / CodeGear / Borland).
HTML Parser and Tree Builder

Parse HTML, good and bad.
HTML5 tokeniser with SAX-style events.
Flexible tree builder API for custom DOM implementations.
Readily provided HTML5 parser classes convert HTML documents into DOM trees:
Simple DOM tree: Fast and efficient.
LibXml2 tree: Fully compatible with LibXml2 functions, including XPATH and LibXslt transformation.
XDOM tree: Feasability study limited by XDOM restrictions.
Fast, efficient, and low memory usage.