May 2016 – Delphi Worlds

Allowing an iOS app to run in the background

By Dave Nottage|2016-05-26T17:31:37+10:30May 26, 2016 5:24 pm|Code tips, Patches|

NOTE: This article is about allowing your iOS app to run when it goes into the background (i.e. another app becomes active) for a short period (up to 3 minutes on iOS 9, at least). It does not relate to having the UIBackgroundModes option, an example of which is here. As some of you will [...]

Debugging from Delphi in a VM using an emulator on the host

By Dave Nottage|2017-02-16T18:02:35+10:30May 19, 2016 12:06 am|Code tips, IDE tweaks, Resources|

Note: These instructions work for me, where I am using VirtualBox on OSX, using a standard emulator from the Android SDK, and a Windows 10 VM with Delphi 10.1 Berlin installed. Way back in 2013, Jim McKeeth from Embarcadero blogged about debugging against a remote Android emulator. His method uses PuTTY and remote login via [...]