This month: Enterprise Connectors in, ummm, Enterprise, RAD Studio Android 64-bit beta, we get a lesson in style from Ray Kanopka, and more Windows 10 webinar replays than you can point a stick at:

• Enterprise Connectors in Enterprise
• Addressing iOS 13 and Android 64-bit with RAD Studio
• Windows 10 Modernize Webinar Series Replays
• Video : Customizing Controls with FMX Styles, with Ray Konopka

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Embarcadero have released a Hotfix for Delphi 10.2.3 that covers two main areas:

• fixes for some CodeInsight issues
• further cleanup and fixes for iOS 11.3 (comments on the post indicate it also works for 11.4)

Marco has further details here, but even if your not doing iOS, the CodeInsight fixes are worth grabbing.

As you might be aware, with Delphi and C++Builder 10.2.3 Embarcadero added mobile support into the Professional edition. Previously it was available as a paid add-on.

In future releases I expect it’ll just be included as part of the normal Pro installation, but until then 10.2.3 Pro users need to take some extra steps to enable iOS and Android support: (more…)

It’s rather a common scenario when a Firemonkey mobile app needs to open a file. It might be a PDF document, an image or video. And while opening a file directly inside of Firemonkey app is totally a legit strategy, sometimes it may be not so easy to implement. TImage provides great support for various graphics formats, but what about PDF? Implementing PDF support for multiple platforms may be quite a challenge. Luckily, both iOS and Android provides a shortcut, we can ask OS to open a document in a third-party application of user’s choice.

And beyond that, mobile OS usually provides more options than just “open a file”. We can also share or print a file, which may be useful for users. (more…)

It’s a common task for a Firemonkey developer to check Internet connectivity. It might be useful to notify a user that he is going to download a huge amount of data using his mobile connection, or just indicate Online/Offline mode on the UI.

This functionality is missing from RAD Studio classes, so lots of developers out there have made solutions for their needs, although most of them only solve problems of their developer and may not fulfill your needs.

In order to fill that gap I made a solution which follows these guidelines:

• Android and iOS support
• ability to retrieve current Internet connectivity state – disconnected, connected to WiFi, connected to mobile data
• Internet connectivity state listener which fires every time when connectivity changes
• a cross-platform interface with encapsulated platform-specific solutions

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Embarcadero have just released a HotFix for RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin specifically related to debugging apps on macOS Sierra and iOS 10.

Specifically, it provides fixes for:

• Debugging macOS applications that run on macOS 10.12 with Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin
• Running and debugging iOS 10 applications that run on the iOS 10 simulator with Delphi and RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin
• Debugging iOS 32-bit applications that run on iOS 10 device with Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin (Berlin Debugger Hotfix)

If you’re doing iOS and or macOS dev, you definitely want to check this out.

Registered Berlin users can download it here

Last week we were doing some updates for a customer on a C++Builder Android and iOS app. The Mac that we were using to do the code signing for iOS hadn’t been used for this before, so we needed to setup the Certificates and Provisioning Profiles for the customer’s account.

I always dread this part, as I’ve found it always takes longer and is more complicated than you expect. I’ve done it enough times now though that I thought I’d struck all the issues, however this time I found a new one that I thought I should document for anyone else (or my future self) who strikes it.

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