This is Part 2 of a 2-part article on incorporating support for FCM in your Delphi apps for Android and iOS, and this part covers implementation on iOS. Issues with later versions of the Firebase SDK: For those who are having compile issues with later versions of the SDK, I'm working on resolving the [...]
NOTE: This article has been revisited, here. Please read that article as the code has now been updated to use that method. Firebase Services from Google are becoming very popular, and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is just one part of it. In this article I show how you can incorporate support for FCM in your [...]
Discover how to handle push notifications sent from Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for Android and iOS UPDATE: For anyone who has downloaded the demo prior to May 17th, 2017, there have been 2 changes: A UseSandbox property has been added to TPushClient, that determines whether the registration is for test apps, and activation of [...]
Fast cross-platform development has become even more awesome with the release of Delphi 10.2 Tokyo, which includes server side support for Linux, FMX, RTL and IDE improvements, and more! I'm especially interested in the multi-threading changes to TBitmap, TCanvas and TContext3D on mobile, as well as the threading changes on Android, and database support enhancements, and am looking forward [...]
This technique can be used for any Android development (or just for Android in general), however I figured Delphi developers might find this useful anyway. While working on some changes for a client's application, they asked for some screenshots from the device to send to the end users for their approval. My first thought [...]
With the introduction of iOS 10, a number of privacy settings need to be handled in your Delphi apps. You may have arrived at this post because you've installed Delphi 10.1 Berlin Update 1, installed Xcode 8 on your Mac, added the iOS 10 SDK to Delphi, recompiled your app that uses the camera [...]
Here I present a video of the results of some work I've been doing with the iOS Photos Framework with Delphi A while ago I posted about using the ALAssetsLibrary in iOS. In that article, I briefly mentioned the Photos Framework, which is now the preferred method of managing media stored on iOS devices (i.e. [...]
Here I present some simple code to check if wifi is enabled on iOS, which could be used to alert the user if your application uses location services. One of my most visited posts is from 3 years ago, which has some demo code for checking whether the internet is accessible from the device. The [...]
Get started with region monitoring (including in the background) on iOS with some how-to's on fixing the Delphi RTL source for the LocationSensor. In an earlier article, I described some changes you'd need to make in order to make monitoring of location changes work in the background with Delphi 10 Seattle. This article is aimed [...]
This article relates to any version of Delphi (or at least it should work) that can target iOS 7 or greater. The demo project was created using Delphi 10.1 Berlin. There's been the odd post to the Embarcadero forums as well as on StackOverflow about how to implement background fetches on iOS. Partly because it's [...]
