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Coping with the Virtual Keyboard Done bar and clicking controls on the iOS7 simulator

By Dave Nottage|2014-10-14T19:14:58+10:30October 29, 2013 3:23 pm|Patches, Uncategorized|

If you've installed update 1 for XE5, you'll soon find that there's a couple of issues that have moved from the device to the simulator; namely the placement of the Virtual Keyboard "Done" bar, and clicking of controls is vertically askew. These two posts relate to the issues: http://delphi.radsoft.com.au/2013/10/coping-with-done-bar-on-ios7-devices/ http://delphi.radsoft.com.au/2013/10/coping-with-clicking-controls-on-ios7-devices/ First the patch for clicking [...]

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Coping with clicking controls on iOS7 devices

By Dave Nottage|2014-10-19T16:54:48+10:30October 23, 2013 6:54 am|Patches, Uncategorized|

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; Update 1 causes an issue with clicking controls in the simulator. Please refer to this article if [...]

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Making Delphi XE 4 debug for iOS devices with Xcode 5

By Dave Nottage|2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 22, 2013 11:46 am|IDE tweaks, Uncategorized|

In an earlier post: Making Delphi XE 4 compile for iOS devices with Xcode 5 I outlined how to set up Delphi XE4 for compiling for iOS devices with Xcode 5. An important issue that was unresolved at the time was that debugging an app on the device wasn't possible. Now, thanks to Carlos Naranjo [...]

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Moving controls into view when the virtual keyboard is shown

By Dave Nottage|2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 19, 2013 7:09 pm|Code tips, Uncategorized|

UPDATE: The demo project attached has been updated due to a couple of "glitches". One remaining known issue is that the "Config" page doesn't move to its original position if changing orientation when the keyboard is already showing. I'll revisit the article when I've come up with a solution. I'm sure almost everyone who develops [...]

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Making the Firemonkey TComboBox picker in iOS7 opaque

By Dave Nottage|2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 16, 2013 9:18 am|Patches, Uncategorized|

I really don't know what possessed the people at Apple to make the UIPickerView transparent by default; it can make it very difficult to distinguish the items in the list from what is underneath. In the FireMonkey TComboBox in Delphi XE5, the picker is implemented using the native UIPickerView. The way the picker is implemented, [...]

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Implementing a slide-in menu in your mobile apps

By Dave Nottage|2019-06-04T21:35:49+10:30October 15, 2013 11:17 am|Code tips, Uncategorized|

Back in May of 2013, Malcolm Groves published this excellent article: A Facebook-style layout for your mobile app Which outlined how to go about implementing a slide-in menu like in prior incarnations of the Facebook mobile app. Facebook has since changed this layout, so it no longer applies to that app, however I still [...]

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Providing background services support to your iOS apps with Delphi

By Dave Nottage|2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 14, 2013 10:36 am|Project tweaks, Uncategorized|

If your iOS app needs to perform some work while it is running in the background on iOS, you'll need to do some special "tweaking", since the functionality is not provided for in the IDE. When Delphi compiles your iOS app for the selected release type (i.e. either Debug or Release), it creates a file [...]

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Adding other iOS frameworks to the SDK manager

By Dave Nottage|2020-11-19T11:48:15+10:30October 12, 2013 7:09 pm|IDE tweaks, Uncategorized|

If you wish to leverage iOS frameworks other than those that support is provided for in Delphi, you'll need to add the path to the framework in the SDK manager. To do this, make sure PA Server is running on your Mac, and in Delphi click Tools, Options, then under Environment Options, select SDK [...]

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Fixing TIdFTP for iOS devices

By Dave Nottage|2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 11, 2013 9:00 am|Patches, Uncategorized|

A colleague of mine, Chris, has been developing an application for iOS that manages players for a casual competition called HoopStars. Part of the functionality of the app is downloading images that are "avatars" for players, using FTP. I had been helping out Chris with other aspects of the development of the app, however this [...]

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Moving ahead with style.. again!

By Dave Nottage|2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 8, 2013 8:44 pm|Uncategorized, Updates news|

You might remember this post: http://delphi.radsoft.com.au/2013/09/moving-ahead-with-style/ about the release of the iOS7 style for Delphi XE5. Now, there are additional styles available, here: http://blogs.embarcadero.com/sarinadupont/2013/09/25/firemonkey-xe5-premium-style-pack-is-now-available/ I've updated my iNews app so that styles can be changed at run time, in the settings. The first pic is of the Settings page with the Diamond style selected, the [...]

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