If you’ve done much mobile development, you’ll know that what happens to your app when you switch away from it is very much at the mercy of the OS. While this is true on the desktop and the server as well, on mobile the OS is very focussed on maximising battery life, and so will […]
Push Notifications and Aggressive Power Management on Android Read More »
In one of our customer projects, we had an Android app that was receiving broadcasts on a background thread (I’ll call this the Receiver thread). On receipt of a message, the Receiver thread needed to do some processing on that message and then update the main thread (the UI thread). The initial solution to this was
Parallel (mis)Adventures Read More »
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
Logging in Android Read More »
The RAD Studio installer has been significantly improved over recent releases. One of the newer features is the ability to quickly add and remove Supported Platforms to your installation from within the IDE (see the Tools | Manage Platforms menu in the IDE). The same utility also lets you install other items, like bundled 3rd
Hey RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo, where’s my adb.exe? Read More »
Recently we were doing some work on an existing RAD Studio Android app for a customer. Their previous developer had let them down so they’d brought it to us to do the next version. Everything went smoothly until we needed to do an AppStore build. As part of this, you need to specify a keystore file that
Which Keystore was used to sign this Android App? Read More »
