Delphi Programming Tips & Tricks

RAD Studio 10.3.3 update is live. Just like previous 10.3.2 update got big feature in macOS 64bit platform, 10.3.3 brings long awaited Android 64bit platform support. Adding 64bit Android platform is pretty straightforward. You need to add 64bit SDK - make sure it uses the same base paths as 32bit SDK, open your project and 64bit Android will be automatically added to the platform list. You need to make sure that all deployed resources for 32bit platform are also included for 64bit platform and you are ready to go. If you want to test application on the device, you have to make sure that your device actually has 64bit Android OS. Even some newer low end devices still use 32bit OS despite the fact they do have 64bit CPUs. If you are about to purchase new device, double check OS bitness. If your device does not have 64bit OS and you run 64bit Delphi application on it, it will show message "64-bit OS device required". Unfortunately, 64bit Android debugger has s...

As you all may already know, Embarcadero recently had some serious server issues. At the moment, most functionality has been restored, but not all of it. Specifically, a number of bugs is missing from the public RAD Studio Quality Portal If you have reported bugs in the period from June 24 to July 31, you will no longer be able to see those bug reports. However, all those bugs are still in the internal bug tracking system and they are not lost. You don't have to report them again. They may be brought back to the public JIRA, but when and if that will happen is unknown at the moment. If they don't resurface in the next month or so, and you have some critical reports you need to track, then you can file those reports again.