Firemonkey gives developers the next-generation 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.

Full suite of user interface controls

Firemonkey includes a complete collection of 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. Additional 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 by developers or designers. You can even provide users with style choices they can select 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. Numerous 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 OS X, and iOS UI's.

3D forms

Firemonkey's 3D forms provide a full GPU powered 3D surface 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. 3D forms 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 graphic objects in HD or 3D. FireMonkey gives you unprecedented freedom to express, communicate and interact with data in powerful new ways only limited by your imagination.

Code free image processing

Firemonkey's built in ImageFX engine provides easy to use shader powered GPU image processing, without complex programming. The ImageFX engine can be used for image transformation, real-time effects, UI 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 undos.

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.