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The Zeos Team is proud to announce the availability of Zeos 8.0.0 as a stable release. This is the newest stable version of Zeos. It deprecates Zeos 7.2, and any previous version of Zeos. We urge all people still using older versions of Zeos to upgrade. If you have any problems with Zeos 8.0, please get in contact with us on the forums or on the bugtracker. The most outstanding changes in Zeos 8.0 are Support for Delphi NextGen compilers to support Android, iOS and Mac OS X Two new bridge drivers for OleDB and ODBC A new driver that uses the Firebird interface based API for accessing Firebird versions 2.5 and above A special proxy server and an according driver that can be used to access any Zeos supported database using SOAP over HTTP(S) from (mobile) clients. Propper support for numeic and decimal fields by using TBCDField and TFMTBCDField Nested transactions using savepoints Two new components: TZTransaction and TZMemTable better overall performance and smaller memory footprint Besides these improvements Zeos has seen a ton of other additions and improvements. For an overview of the changes in Zeos 8.0 see the release notes. To download, the new version of Zeos please use this link.

Hello Omnibill, I use the Professional version of Delphi to do exactly what you want to do - I can enter some numbers into a database from mobile devices. Using Zeos I can decide wether the Zeos Proxy Server is a better choice or Firebird. I think that doing your own server will leave you in the worst of all places: You have to do all the maintenance yourself. By choosing Firebird or Zeos Proxy you can rely on work that is tested by others and you can concentrate on what is your core job - getting the mobile application to work. Zeos Proxy will allow you to attach directly to your MySQL database but will not give you connection encryption out of the box. For this you would have to add a Apache or IIS as a reverse proxy. Using a recent version of Firebird will give you an encrypted connection out of the box and you can continue to use FireDAC. Best regards, Jan

Additionally to attaching Firebird to the internet you could try the Zeos Webservice based Proxy driver included in Zeos 8.0: https://sourceforge.net/p/zeoslib/wiki/WebServiceProxyDriver/ It allows you to access any Zeos supported database from mobile devices. To increase security it allows adding 2FA to your regular database logins. Also it uses http and session ids so sessions can survive intermittent connection losses. It doesn't support SSL directly (yet), so for exposing it on the internet you would have to use Apache or some other server as a proxy.