It's time to become excited, because Delphi 10.3 Rio has been released! Rather than go over all the new features here, please refer to the Embarcadero website, and the docwiki for a full list. Of special interest to me are: The out-of-the-box support for Android API 26+, so if you're using Rio, there's no longer [...]
This article describes a Delphi add-in that I've been working on, of which the first version (1.0.0) has been released today In the beginning.. Some time ago I started working on an add-in for Delphi to add some functionality that I wanted in the IDE, one of them being that I'd like it to [...]
I started this blog back in September of 2013. With the 5th Anniversary this month, I figured it is time to tell some of the story.. First languages My first programming language was APL, which I partly learned in high school as a small part of Mathematics classes. This lead to me becoming part of [...]
A little over a year ago, I posted a two part article about integrating Firebase Cloud Messaging in your Delphi mobile apps. This time, it's a single part article because much of the work is done for you, or is simplified. The code in this article was built and tested using an install of [...]
Nearly 5 years ago I wrote an article for checking whether a mobile device has an internet connection. This article revisits that solution, dropping the "less-used" functionality, however it also gains an important feature. The code and demo for this article was written and tested on Delphi Tokyo 10.2.3, however it should work on earlier [...]
In this article I revisit (again) the seemingly perennial problem of controls being obscured by the virtual keyboard when it appears. The code related to this article was tested with Delphi Tokyo 10.2.3, however it may work with earlier versions. TL;DR: The demo code is part of, and relies on units from the KastriFree project. [...]
In my last article, I discussed the new requirements for Android apps on Google Play to target Android 8 (API level 26) and higher, and described one possible way of handling permission requests at runtime, as required when targeting Android 6 (API level 23) and higher. In this article, I describe an alternative, and [...]
****IMPORTANT****: Please use the solution presented in my follow-up article at this link, in preference to the one presented here. This article is retained here for reference only. From August 2018, all new apps on Google Play must target Android 8 (API level 26) or higher, and from November 2018, all app updates on [...]
Monitoring location updates on Android in a consistent fashion (e.g in a service, and while the screen is locked) can be quite a challenge. This article tackles the problem head-on UPDATE: This article, and the demo for it, has been superceded by this article and the demo associated with it. Please refer to that, [...]
