It's been a while between posts.. let's restart with a new version of Codex! Codex 1.4 (Embarcadero Delphi IDE add-in) This release has a couple of fairly substantial changes, namely: Source Patch - Create and apply patch files for Delphi source, with just a couple of clicks IDE Path Sets - allows quick changes to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
