Part 1 listed the steps required to create a mobile provisioning profile for your app. This part describes the steps required to create the application file (.IPA) and how to set up your webserver to host the distribution of the app. There are 2 sections in the project options of your Delphi project that must [...]
My goal with these instructions is to provide as close as possible to end-to-end instructions for creating ad-hoc deployments of iOS apps via a webserver, specifically using Delphi. One thing I won't go into is creating the actual project in Delphi; I will assume you've already done that. It also assumes you have a developer [...]
UPDATE: If you've applied Update 1 for XE5, please revert any changes made based on this article, or ignore it if you have not made any changes. The issue has been resolved in Update 1 for the DEVICE; sadly, Update 1 causes an issue with the Done bar in the simulator. Please refer to this article if you [...]
UPDATE: Due to the kindness of another newsgroup participant, I've posted about how to make debugging work. Please check the link at the end of this article. If you're looking to hang on to Delphi XE4, but want to upgrade Xcode to version 5, there's a couple of things you need to do, especially if [...]
This entry is specifically related to my mobile news client, iNews, which can compile for iOS and Android, however it could be applied to any platform that FireMonkey supports, e.g. Windows and OSX. When creating a mechanism for subscribing to groups available on a news server, I needed to figure out a way of the [...]
With the release of iOS7 recently, Embarcadero have released a hotfix for XE5, which includes styling for iOS7 for Firemonkey UI controls, and support to be able to change the styling in the IDE. I was quick to grab the hotfix, and give it a whirl on iNews. On the down side, it appears that [...]
I'm a bit of a newsgroup junkie; at least when it comes to developing software with Delphi. I've also had an iPhone for a couple of years and one thing I miss when I'm not at my MacBook is being having a news (NNTP) client. So, over the past few months (on and off), I've [...]
