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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Part 1 listed the steps required to create a mobile provisioning profile for your app. This part describes the steps required to create the application file (.IPA) and how to set up your webserver to host the distribution of the app. There are 2 sections in the project options of your Delphi project that must [...]
My goal with these instructions is to provide as close as possible to end-to-end instructions for creating ad-hoc deployments of iOS apps via a webserver, specifically using Delphi. One thing I won't go into is creating the actual project in Delphi; I will assume you've already done that. It also assumes you have a developer [...]
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; sadly, Update 1 causes an issue with the Done bar in the simulator. Please refer to this article if you [...]
UPDATE: Due to the kindness of another newsgroup participant, I've posted about how to make debugging work. Please check the link at the end of this article. If you're looking to hang on to Delphi XE4, but want to upgrade Xcode to version 5, there's a couple of things you need to do, especially if [...]
This entry is specifically related to my mobile news client, iNews, which can compile for iOS and Android, however it could be applied to any platform that FireMonkey supports, e.g. Windows and OSX. When creating a mechanism for subscribing to groups available on a news server, I needed to figure out a way of the [...]
