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How to get PAnsiChar to your string on Delphi for Android

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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While working on the Android2DelphiImport tool, I had to get strings converted into the PAnsiChar format. A little known record, TMarshaller, in System...
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Further notes on loading an external JAR / APK in Delphi on Android

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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In my previous post , I showed how it's possible to load an external JAR / APK on Android, in Java. In Delphi, even if you're able to convert a...
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Delphi - overload before cdecl

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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Every couple of years, I'll stumble upon yet another Delphi compiler issue. This time, here's the code that causes the problem. program Project4;...
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My personality is INTP. What's yours?

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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The personality type of a person determines the type of people one is likely to enjoy interacting with, and it is also said that certain personality types...
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Lessons learnt writing software migration contracts

Posted over 10 years ago

by chuacw
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While working on a Delphi/Visual Studio project some time ago, I wrote the entire contract and gave it to the customer for signing. I got the contract...
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Creating status dependent content in Community Server 2008

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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Here's how to create status dependent content in Community Server 2008. The following code allows one to show content depending on whether the user...
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Getting the blog post URL in Community Server 2008

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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I wanted to get the blog URL of each posting, so that I can implement social media sharing buttons on each and every post. After some research, here's...
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Github repository online!

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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My Github repository is now online. I used Github for version control, and storing of my public projects. Since there are default settings for nearly all...
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IE and Chrome can't connect to Internet but Firefox can

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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For some reason, Internet Explorer and Chrome were unable to connect to any web sites, while Firefox was able to. It seems that there was a failure in...
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Why optimization crashed the application I was working on...

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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I was working on an application, that uses an external library, a DLL. After finishing on the debug version, I decided to try the release version, and...
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JNI - the old way of doing it and the Delphi OO way

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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In XE5, Embarcadero introduced a new object oriented way of calling into any Android API. Before looking at it, let's look at the old way of doing...
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Some thoughts on the design and development of High Frequency Trading algorithms on SGX

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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Some thoughts on the infrastructure, and what's needed to implement a software application that can perform HFT on SGX (or on any other stock market...
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Porting the Delphi Android ARM JNI framework to Win32/x86

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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The new Delphi XE5 provides support for the Android platform, and provides an object oriented JNI framework that allows one to access Android/Java classes...
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CodeRage 8 is coming!

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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CodeRage 8 is right around the corner! This October 15th through the 17th, join Embarcadero for 3 full days of virtual conference sessions filled with...
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Getting the files directory on Android with Delphi XE5

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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There's a unit in XE5 that deals with getting all kinds of directories on Android, and it's called Androidapi.IOUtils. Here's what you can...
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Implementing common wrapper code in Java and use for Java delegate

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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I recently worked on a project that wraps Android classes into callable wrappers from Delphi by reading from a Java archive (JAR). Since the Android platform...
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Is your Android phone / tablet supported by Delphi XE5?

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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There's an application on Google Play that allows you to find out if your Android phone / tablet is supported by Delphi XE5. It's called Delphi...
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Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5 is out!

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5 is out! You can now use it to develop for Win32, Win64, Mac OS, iPad/iPhone and Android! Click on the image/link below to purchase...
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Logging on FireMonkey

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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How to log messages on FireMonkey for debugging uses FMX.Platform; var LoggingService: IFMXLoggingService; begin LoggingService := FMX.Platform.TPlatformServices...
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Notes on loading a JAR library in Android

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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On Android, loading a JAR can be accomplished as follows: String sdPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/"; String fullPath =...
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Stuff to remember on developing Android apps

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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findViewById works only after setContentView has been called on the layout containing the View that needs to be found. It's possible to remove the...
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Security breach released salary and confidential data

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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Recently, I discovered that the recruitment agency working for one of the companies I used to worked for had a security breach. And as such, the salary...
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Links to useful open source Android libraries

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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Links to useful open source Android libraries ActionBarSherlock - An extension of the support library designed to facilitate the use of the action bar...
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Forcing update to Google Play services

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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This blog post is also an article on how to get the Android Device Manager on your Android phone / tablet In certain circumstances, Google Play services...
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Delphi interface quirk

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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The following is a description of a Delphi interface artifact that has never been officially documented. Let me explain this in terms of code: IAmYourGrandfather...