Some of you will be familiar with implementations in Kastri for various Third Party iOS SDKs in Kastri, such as Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). This article has important news about ongoing support for these. The problem Ever since Delphi added support for iOS, it has been possible to link in code from third party iOS [...]
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 [...]
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 This article tackles the problem head-on UPDATE: This article, and the demo for it, has been superceded by this article and the demo associated with it.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 [...]
