Firemonkey gives developers the next-gen platform to build visually stunning and highly interactive business applications. Use HD and 3D Forms, User Controls, Animation, Real-time image effects, and more to create applications that are as visually rich as they as the business and information behind them.

HD Forms

Firemonkey HD Forms are the basis for high resolution graphically rich user interfaces. HD Forms, HUDs, graphics, and UI controls are powered by GPU based scalable vectors - which means razor sharp & lightning fast graphics, smooth animation and maximum resolution on every device. HD forms can also contain 3D views for highly interactive 3D visualization and interactivity.

Full Suite of User Interface Controls

Firemonkey's includes over XXX HD user interface controls to easily create interactive applications. Common controls include buttons, menus, HUDs, text, editboxes, combo boxes, tables, tabs, panels, and more. Developers can easily inherit from and modify any control to create completely new custom UI controls. Add'l HD custom controls are downloadable from community and 3rd party component developers and more are being developed every day.

Styled UIs without markup

Firemonkey HD Styles enable you to fully control the look and feel of HD user interfaces without programming or becoming an expert in esoteric markup languages. Styles can be created or modified at by developers, designers, and even end users. You can even choose to allow end users to change styles at runtime. Because HD user controls are built with scalable vector graphics, the limits of pixel based themes and skins are blown out of the water. Styles will look great on any device, form factor, or resolution. XX popular styles are included in Firemonkey and more are being developed every day.

...or a Traditional OS look and feel

While FireMonkey HD styles let you deliver highly modern and custom UI's for your application, if you're after a more traditional native OS look, FireMonkey gives you the option to stick with Windows 7, Mac OSX, and iOS UI's.

3D Forms

Firemonkey's 3D Forms provide a full GPU powered 3D user interface with lighting, textures, and animation for highly interactive user interfaces. 3D controls and objects and meshes can be imported from 3D design packages such as Collada, 3DS, and more. 3DForms can also contain HD two-dimensional scalable vector based user controls and graphics.

Live Data Visualization

Firemonkey's Livebinding allows you to connect any type of data source to any UI or graphical element in 2D or 3D. Giving you unprecedented freedom to express and communicate and interact with data in powerful new ways only limited by your imagination.

No Code Image Processing

Firemonkey's built in ImageFX engine provides easy to use GPU shader powered image processing, without complex programming. The ImageFX engine can be used for image transformation, real-time effects, and more. Like Photoshop and CoreImage, ImageFX supports multiple filters simultaneously leveraging a single dynamic GPU instruction pipeline for near real-time pixel-perfect performance. Because ImageFX is non-destructive to the original image source, it's fast and easy to try different filter combinations and undo's.

Communicate with Animation

All Firemonkey HD and 3D objects can be animated using timeline based animation to create motion, transitions, effects. Hook up animation to user controls and input methods such as mouse, touch, and motion controllers for highly interactive applications, kiosks, and demonstrations.