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 [...]
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 [...]
UPDATE: If you're using Delphi XE7, the TWebBrowser component now includes the method EvaluateJavascript (does the same thing as what my GetJavaScript result does), and applies to both iOS and Android. In a post on the Embarcadero forums some time ago, Charles Vinal asked about whether it would be possible to have TWebBrowser implement the stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString [...]
NOTE: If you have read this post before, it has been updated recently to include further changes that remove all leaks generated by the demo project. Recently there was a posting in the Embarcadero forums about problems with creating a secondary form, showing it modally, then destroying it; namely that the app exits without warning [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
