Corresponding with the release of Delphi 11 Alexandria, today also marks the release of Codex 1.5 and Mosco 1.2 Codex 1.5 Codex has been revamped a little in version 1.5, and introduces some new functionality: Mosco Expert functions The functionality that was present in the now discontinued Mosco Expert has now been merged into Codex [...]
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 [...]
The requirement for macOS apps to be notarized has thrown a few challenges, one of them being that developers are having trouble with apps that use Indy components with SSL. This article describes how to overcome that issue. Rather than dive headlong into working out why the notarized app would not work, I decided to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Apple have made changes to the way hiding the status bar works in iOS 7. If you want your app to be full screen (i.e. minus the status bar), you'll need to create a customised .plist file, like I've described in this article: http://delphi.radsoft.com.au/2013/10/providing-background-services-support-to-your-ios-apps-with-delphi/ This time, you'll need to add the following to the customised [...]
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 [...]
