In my last article, I discussed the new requirements for Android apps on Google Play to target Android 8 (API level 26) and higher, and described one possible way of handling permission requests at runtime, as required when targeting Android 6 (API level 23) and higher. In this article, I describe an alternative, and [...]
Monitoring location updates on Android in a consistent fashion (e.g in a service, and while the screen is locked) can be quite a challenge. This article tackles the problem head-on UPDATE: This article, and the demo for it, has been superceded by this article and the demo associated with it. Please refer to that, [...]
Developing software with Delphi is easy regardless of "cross-platformness", relatively speaking, in comparison to other tools I've used, however this article shows how insanely easy it can be to put together an application that runs on iOS, Android, Windows and MacOS. UPDATE: Developer Jerry Dodge has alerted me to this project of his, called [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
