FireMonkey can also offer the portability of Web-based platforms, through the ability to separate the user interface from the business logic and data access. With this feature, developers can create front ends for specific clients, such as Windows, Macintosh and iOS, which all then call the needed data and logic from a cloud service.

"If I have a wide variety of products and form factors, I can centralize that functionality and build applications that share data and services," Swindell said.

FireMonkey will be included in the new release of RAD Studio XE2, and also with the company's Delphi XE2 and C++Builder XE2 products.

RAD Studio XE2 also includes other improvements. Delphi XE2 is the first version of Delphi to provide 64-bit development. "There are many applications dealing with very large data sets and objects, especially imaging applications, video, large databases," Swindell said. Thirty-two-bit systems offer only a 4GB limit on working memory.