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Posts Tagged ‘Embarcadero’

Logging in Android

From the Code Partners blog:

RAD Studio’s ability to do remote debugging of Android apps on device is fantastic for tracking down issues. However sometimes you have issues where the debugger can’t help. Case in point is one of the projects we were doing for a customer recently. The Android portion included a Service, which needed to be auto-started when the Android device booted. It worked fine if it was started manually, but auto-starting at boot resulted in a  crash. We couldn’t use the RAD Studio debugger as it was all over so quickly at boot time. Fortunately we were already logging messages out to the Android logs from within our app, so we were able to track down the problem. How?

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Expired Apple Intermediate Certificates and RAD Studio iOS Development

From the Code Partners blog :

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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MVVM and MenialTasks : Why did I use TEnumerableBindSourceAdapter instead of TListBindSourceAdapter?

In the comments over on my old MVVM Resource List post Peter Rosario asked a great question. A question I thought I’d covered in my video but I suspect I might have edited it out in an attempt to fit into the CodeRage time limits. So I thought I’d answer it here.

The question was about my MenialTasks sample app, and why I’d used TEnumerableBindSourceAdapter to bind my collection of TTasks to the UI, rather than the more common TListBindSourceAdapter.

TListBindSourceAdapter has a lot going for it. It comes “in the box”, would certainly have been easier, and would work just fine. Given that, why didn’t I use it? Read On…

App Tethering Series Update

I’ve had a few questions from folks about the App Tethering articles I’ve been posting, specifically, when the next one is coming.

Between work and preparing for a grading I’ve been a bit busy, however I’ve now started writing the next post and have a few more planned. The next one should be up in a week or so.

Also, several people have asked if they can get them all combined into a single document. Once I have the remaining articles done I’ll combine them and post the details.