Windows 8 UI functionality for you RAD Studio XE3 VCL and FireMonkey apps

Windows 8 will be available this month. To take advantage of Microsoft's launch and your customers and users who will get new computers with Windows 8 or who will upgrade to Windows 8, you'll want to get your VCL and FireMonkey applications ready for the Windows 8 look and user experience. Using RAD Studio XE3, Delphi XE3 and C++Builder XE3 you can easily create Windows applications that incorporate the latest Windows 8 styling and functionality in an easy and accessible way. In the first video of this series, you saw how to use Metropolis UI project templates for VCL and FireMonkey 2 to get a quick start building Windows 8 applications including blank form, grid style, and split layout style. You also saw how to easily convert your existing VCL and FireMonkey forms to the Windows 8 style. In this quick video you will see how to add Windows 8 user experience and functionality to your VCL and FireMonkey applications using FlipView, FlyIn/FlyOut and LiveTile examples. The new Live Tile integration gives your applications running on Windows 8 Enterprise edition (or Windows 8 Professional edition with a developer key) a presence in the Windows 8 Start Screen and even enables your applications to communicate with the tiles without having to use WinRT. With Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3 and Metropolis UI, you have one of the quickest and easiest ways to create Windows 8 UI style applications.

[AlexeiVinidiktov]

Why would anyone want to use Window 8 style on the desktop? It is supposed to be used on a tablet, isn't it?

[ooSpyderoo]

This was a half baked attempt at Win 8, you can't even drag the app's window down the screen to close it like a 'normal' app does. Now EMB have switched back to iOS again, what a mess all this shifting back and forth is.

[BW]

Why is it pointless if you can't target RT? For those people using Win8 on a PC, laptop, or Pro tablet, it is certainly useful that to display live tile information on their start screen or to develop x86 applications. RT isn't likely going to sell much. Surface Pro/Intel-based tablets are a few hundred dollars more and run all their old software. I doubt RT will be 0.1% of the PC market and likely less than 1% of the Win8 market.

[zorromci]

Exactly, this remains a pointless feature as long as you can't target Windows RT