In this post, I'll be taking a look at some of the tools that I use in the process of software development that I swear by. It's not all about Delphi ;-) Before around 2011, I used to be a bit of a "it's Windows or nothing" kind of person. When I started down [...]
The requirement for macOS apps to be notarized has thrown a few challenges, one of them being that developers are having trouble with apps that use Indy components with SSL. This article describes how to overcome that issue. Rather than dive headlong into working out why the notarized app would not work, I decided to [...]
Before the release of Delphi 10.3.2, Embarcadero released a patch for including FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging) for Android in your apps, and now that support is included in Delphi 10.3.2. This article describes how to include support for iOS in FCM. UPDATE: With many thanks to Antonello Carlomagno, the iOS implementation now has been [...]
Codex had a feature where you can launch a logcat viewer for displaying logs for Android devices. This feature has now been moved out of Codex (in version 1.2.1) into a separate application: Device Lens Device Lens 1.0.0 has just been released, and you may find it here. There is some basic documentation at the [...]
Important note: As of Delphi 10.4, it's near impossible to make an app work with the older iOS simulators. 10.4 users will need to wait until an update that supports the newer simulators. If you're starting with a newer version of Xcode on the Mac, you will find that the iOS simulators supplied will [...]
The recent release of RAD Studio 10.3.2 includes being able to compile your apps for macOS 64-bit, and allows you to notarize your apps right from the IDE. In this article, I cover the notarization process from end to end. What is Notarization? Notarization is the process of "signing" your macOS application so that [...]
The latest version of Delphi Rio, 10.3.2 has been released! To coincide with the release, Delphi Worlds introduces: Mosco Mosco (an acronym for MacOS Companion) Mosco is a combination of a macOS 64-bit application and an expert (of the same name) for Delphi. Mosco has functionality that has yet to be seen: An much [...]
Yesterday, I uploaded a new version of Codex to the Github repository that has the installers. Main new changes in this version: Editor Tabs Position There's now an option (in Tools->Codex->Options) to have the editor tabs (e.g. Code | Design | History) appear on the left, just like they used to! If you also have [...]
A recent report on Embarcadero's Quality Portal caught my attention today, where an app would crash if it used a TMapView on an Android 9 device. Fortunately, I had just recently updated my Nexus 5X to Android 9 (thanks to Brian Long's help), so I could investigate the problem. First thing to do was to [...]
On February 14th, 1995, Delphi was brought into the world, and it changed the software development landscape. Now 24 years later, Delphi is still going strong, with the ability to target multiple platforms from single source. This milestone is being celebrated with the release of the first update to Delphi 10.3 Rio, which contains a [...]
