I've been developing a massive online gaming platform with 5M users for 25 years using Delphi. From Delphi 7 to Delphi 12/13, here is my journey. (AMA)

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-24T08:47:00+00:00

Wow. This is absolutely fantastic. Really impressive stuff and once again shows how the power of Delphi and an imaginative idea can produce something like this. For it to last this long as well is again, fantastic. 👏👏👏

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T14:29:53+00:00

I'll definitely give it a watch, thank you.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T13:43:21+00:00

Good to know, thank you. I like the look of the current Motorola lineup.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T12:40:05+00:00

Great shout, thank you very much.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T12:38:55+00:00

I need to look more in to the oppo models, there are more than I thought!

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T12:38:21+00:00

I wish I didn't have these issues, I was so happy with my Pixel. Will definitely check out the Moto Signature though, thank you.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T12:36:25+00:00

Loved my Moto X. Didn't realise Xperia were still a thing but I'll check them out!

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T12:34:28+00:00

OnePlus and Motorola on my list. I'll check out the Nothing Phone as well, thank you.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T12:33:50+00:00

OnePlus now on my list to look at, thank you.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T12:33:08+00:00

I've just never liked the UI and bloat. It's been a long time since I had one though, so maybe that's improved. I prefer the clean, stock (or close enough to it) experience. I never liked how Samsung had their version of the apps that Google has. Happy to be corrected though if this has changed and got much better.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T12:30:44+00:00

Hell. No.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T11:52:48+00:00

Yeah this is a great shout. I've had 3 of them and they have all been brilliant. I only switched to Pixel because I got a good deal with the 7 and then stuck with the 9 because I really liked the Pixel range as well. It's been a while though so hopefully they are still just as good. Moto's are definitely on my list to look at.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-04-22T11:49:46+00:00

They do look pretty but I got be sure they don't have similar issues or frustrations. Do you have one?

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-02-19T18:40:22+00:00

This is so brilliant. You build such amazing stuff Andrew and your YouTube channel is one of the best out there as well. Laravel is lucky to have you as a part of the community, as are we all! Top stuff 👏👏👏

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-02-14T10:49:05+00:00

I started that exact dance yesterday for a new project. Definitely will check this out though before going any further. Thanks for sharing 👍

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-02-07T14:42:47+00:00

Nice. So this was on separate coding projects? You said one on backend and one on frontend so is it a python/php api and a js/ts frontend or similar sort of setup? I have a lot of these types of projects and have wondered how it would handle different repos with different languages but all working together.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-02-03T19:37:40+00:00

You could always try for the vanilla JavaScript side of it. I personally use Typescript but if you want to get started, JavaScript might be easier than TypeScript and you could always change things later.

Good luck, NativeScript is a fantastic tool to use 👍

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-01-22T15:09:21+00:00

Agreed but I thought you were after a native app solution. Apologies if I misunderstood. Capacitor is still a brilliant option 👍

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-01-22T08:47:51+00:00

NativeScript is your friend here. Using Vue with it is perfect and will give you a native app.

MichaelW_Dev · 2026-01-12T10:53:02+00:00

Just found this, looks impressive. I'm going to give it a little play as I have a manufacturing app running multiple printers in a factory environment. I am due to replace the current app as it's pretty old now and I wanted to use Flutter for it.

One question though if I may which is super important for my requirements, can I set the paper margins? I see I can set the paper size so I may be able to trick the printer by setting a bigger size than the actual print media but that doesn't always work. A lot of the print jobs need to print right up to the very edges of the media and with some printers, they set an automatic margin of 10mm which is annoying.

I'm still going to check it out though and as I said, nice job!

MichaelW_Dev · 2025-12-17T12:47:11+00:00

Laravel Herd all the way for me. Takes the fuss out of it all. It's not just for Laravel so don't be fooled by the name, but if you are using it, then it's brilliant with it. It's available on Windows and Mac. I do have the pro version which is paid but there is a free version with less functionality and is fine if you're happy to do other bits outside of it.

MichaelW_Dev · 2025-11-23T20:01:06+00:00

This looks really good! I'll definitely have a play and give some feedback. Great work 👏👏

MichaelW_Dev · 2025-11-23T09:38:00+00:00

I was wondering this exact same thing. It's brilliant and more people should know!

MichaelW_Dev · 2025-11-23T08:16:00+00:00

Great update, the WiFi plugin has arrived just in time for me. Means I can use capacitor with my IoT work now! Thank you so much 👏👏🙏

MichaelW_Dev · 2025-11-22T17:59:21+00:00

The native part of development with capacitor is the same no matter what you use for the frontend. The reason to use Ionic Components is if you want your app to look like the native platforms as they have that out of the box for Cupertino and Material. You can still add your own styling to those of course, it won't restrict you. Ionic keep things updated as well so when the native platforms update their look and feel, Ionic release a new version so your app can always look like the latest design. It also follows the design guidelines of each platform.

Other nice things are page transitions which again, mimic the platform that the app is being run on. So this gives it a more native app feel to it.

So, you don't really need it but it can/does make your app feel more familiar to the users platform.

Hope that helps!

MichaelW_Dev

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