NOTE: This article is about allowing your iOS app to run when it goes into the background (i.e. another app becomes active) for a short period (up to 3 minutes on iOS 9, at least). It does not relate to having the UIBackgroundModes option, an example of which is here. As some of you will [...]
Note: These instructions work for me, where I am using VirtualBox on OSX, using a standard emulator from the Android SDK, and a Windows 10 VM with Delphi 10.1 Berlin installed. Way back in 2013, Jim McKeeth from Embarcadero blogged about debugging against a remote Android emulator. His method uses PuTTY and remote login via [...]
NOTE: This article relates to using dylibs with iOS simulator only. If you're building your app for iOS device, you should link against the static libraries. See this link. Firstly, a couple of thanks: To Doron Adler, who created a fork of a script, of which mine is based on, and who gave some [...]
A recent post in the Embarcadero Delphi forums asked about why the location sensor stopped working in the background when changing to iOS 9. Since I have an interest in this area, I've done a bit of investigating as to how to make this work, and this post is the result. The location sensor [...]
A change (as to exactly when, I don't know) in Apple's requirements for apps submitted to Test Flight (via iTunesConnect) has been causing an issue for those using Delphi, as there is a key missing from the .plist contained in the .ipa file. The issue is evident when assigning a build to external testers, namely [...]
Some time back, someone asked on the Embarcadero forums about using ALAssetsLibrary from the Assets Library framework in iOS with Delphi. I was curious because I thought I may be interested in using it myself. It seemed relatively simple enough: create an Assets Library instance (TALAssetsLibrary from the iOSapi.AssetsLibrary unit), enumerate the groups, and for [...]
This isn't quite what I'd call a review; it's more like: I've been using Delphi 10 Seattle for a while now, and this is what I've liked, or found interesting :-) I've been very slightly behind the changes that have been happening with Delphi, so forgive me if I mention something that was included in [...]
Just over 2 years ago, I posted this article: http://delphi.radsoft.com.au/2013/10/moving-controls-into-view-when-the-virtual-keyboard-is-shown/ Well, a little water has passed under the bridge since then, in terms of the changes to Delphi (I think I used XE5 for that article?), and in terms of my thinking. A recent task at work had me thinking there could be a more [...]
I've recently started a project in Delphi XE8 that has me using Delphi a lot more again. It's designed to be cross-platform, however for now the GUI side uses VCL controls, so the initial iteration is going to be restricted to Windows. I'll be re-using the back end however, so FireDAC was chosen for database [...]
RAD Studio XE8 has recently been released, and with it comes support for compiling your iOS apps for 64 bit devices. Now, if only I had one! Looks like I'll be bugging my girlfriend to borrow her phone for testing on the device ;-) There's also a stack other new features and bug fixes. Check [...]
