The FirePower component suite includes the critical and necessary user interface components for building professional desktop and mobile applications using RAD Studio’s XE8. In particular those who are building business applications will directly benefit as the controls display your data quickly and in a natural way. For a more in-depth overview of whats included in FirePower, download the overview. We are also offering a free trial which you can download.

AceText is a companion that eases and speeds up your everyday computer activities, whether that is writing reports or documents, text editing, programming, collecting information, conducting research, sending and responding to email, messaging and chatting, or any or all of those. In all these activities you are working with text. AceText is a smart software tool that simplifies working with text by enabling you to store, manage, edit and reuse text from a central location.

Java2OP.exe ("Java To Object Pascal") is a command-line tool that you can use to generate Delphi native bridge files from Java libraries (JAR or class files). You can use the generated files to provide your Delphi applications access to those Java libraries on Android. See Using a Custom Set of Java Libraries In Your RAD Studio Android Apps.

Whenever a developer tries to use a component or a tool that renders text, then he/she has to deal with fonts. Whether the component is a GUI control such as a text label or a text box, or a non-GUI component that renders text on a printer canvas, it must be able to process fonts. Here, the choice of fonts that can be used with the component is limited to those that are installed on the system and also by the font types supported by the run-time environment (.NET and JRE). What if you wanted to use a font that is not installed or if you wanted to use a font type that is not supported by the run time?