The release of Delphi 10.4 Sydney is just around the corner. I've specifically been given permission to show updates and new features in the product, so let's get to it.. Note: This is pre-release information As such, any or all of it may change. Please check the What's New when the product is officially released. [...]
If you develop mobile apps for the app stores with Delphi, you'll know that building and deploying a release is not a trivial task. MonkeyBuilder can reduce the time you spend from hours into just minutes! Some MonkeyBuilder history MonkeyBuilder is the brainchild of Graham Murt of Kernow Software. You may be familiar with [...]
An enquiry I had from a Hans Jakobsen of EarMaster (brilliant music teaching software for PC, Mac, iPad and iPhone) recently was regarding an apparent "lag" for the OnMouseDown event for controls near the edge of the screen on devices with later versions of iOS. This article poses a workaround for the problem. A [...]
Back in October last year, I wrote about integrating iOS support for FCM using Embarcadero's implementation. In this article, I describe a revised demo that simplifies things and fixes a couple of issues. STTP The new demo can be found here. Please be aware that the ShowBannerIfForeground must be set to False if you [...]
Previously, I have written two articles on monitoring location changes: one for iOS, and one for Android. This article and the related demo brings everything up-to-date and merges support for both operating systems. STTP (Straight To The Point - I'm coining an acronym to replace TLDR) If you're just after the demo, you may find [...]
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 [...]
