Patrick PREMARTIN

It's not encrypted. It's in French. 😉 (I can show the PDF with macOS viewer, you should be able to read it)

Ok. Don't hesitate to let me know directly if anything changes, I occasionally get requests from French-speaking Delphi developers looking for positions. I can share without any problem.

Thanks for sharing. Do you want I post it on my LinkedIn account ?

For me, the generic answer would be "no", but you have to look at the use, the need and adapt. A lot of software goes online for reasons of maintenance and “simplified” access everywhere. If your software needs to be used from smartphones and desktops, the simplest solution will always be the website (even if it's sometimes complicated to do, even with tools available for Delphi developers).

Great you found a solution, but strange you needed it.

Hi I don't know what is come from, but don't you have a file style/apptheme.base in the Project/Deployment wizard for your Android platform ?

When you publish a game in this challenge or in general, don't forget to add "delphi-game" topic to be listed in https://github.com/topics/delphi-game "delphi", "gamedev", "game-development" and "game-source" are welcome too for showing to the other game developers that Pascal and Delphi are available for game programming.

Yes for Microsoft Store : we don't have to sign the six files generated by Delphi if we choose the store deployment. But MSIX is a container like was APPX and Delphi generate one in RELEASE if we choose the "store" distribution and "adhoc" in the project options. Delphi try to sign by itself. I'm not sure the six file generated by this way is still valid. In the past I haven't any problem with Certum certificates for MSIX files but I haven't tried since I have a token and use my DProj 2 Win Setup which uses Inno Setup and Exe Bulk Signing programs to generate a signed installer from Delphi deployment wizard. In your command add the time stamping operation ("https://time.certum.pl" for Certum). It's better to have long term signatures on files even after your certificate expire.

Hi @Paul Dardeau Strange Ian didn't answered. You're email or his answer has perhaps been filtered by an anti spam somewhere. If your software target specifically Delphi/C++Builder developers you can submit it on GetIt (as a trail version if you want). The submit form is on https://getitnow.embarcadero.com website. If you target SQLite users you enter in the search engines arena... and being seen is hard. You need a website for the software or you as editor and promote it like any website. Check forums and link sharing sites around development and databases. In some cases Product Hunt (and clones) site can help to have some users : https://www.producthunt.com Of course it's better if you fix the name of the software before sharing it or writing about it. To start selling (or distributing) you can use websites like Gumroad, LemonSqueezy and many others merchants of records ("MoR"). They sell (and bill the clients) for us. For the price, it depends a lot on what you want to get out of it, the potential customers and the interest the software can generate. It's pure marketing. The advantage is that you can give a bogus price right from the start and run a launch promotion at a test price that you can change whenever you like. Making source code available can be of interest to some users, and reassure others that the software will continue to operate in the event of a mishap at the publisher's premises. The disadvantage is that some users may prefer to compile it from the code repository, sometimes even appropriating it and reselling it under their own name. In the event of piracy or abuse, you need to be able to offer additional services (such as ebooks, video courses, technical support).

Nobody contacted you for this little contest ? 😞

You are a developer, can you give us your magic method to fix unreproducible bugs ?

Thanks, I open an issue about the installer. It should not check by default something not installed and of course must allow to install it.

When you opened the Tools / Manage Feature dialog (before reinstalling) it was checked but you unchecked it when you installed ?

Strange. Are you in a Professional or Enterprise edition ? You only have "html" part under "language" option ? Do you have the refactoring options in contextual menu in the code editor ? Can you uninstall the modeling option and reinstall it ?

Check the installer ("Tools / Manage features" in the IDE). The code formatter and other .Net dependencies are in the "modeling" option.

Hi Ian Very strange. Does this components include a design package or IDE wizards ? Does it needs external DLL ? Does it affects builds and constructs in DEBUG and RELEASE configurations ? Is it for Windows or an other platform ?

(hope it will still work tomorrow)

I didn't say that (neither thought it). 😉 The errors are not clear and understanding the toolchains for Android and iOS is not easy, even when we use them often.

If you don't target iOS 15, why do you change the minimal iOS SDK version number ? Do you have any error except the one from original subject of this topic ? What does your app ? Anything needing a specific framework ?

Good to know you find a solution. I've just installed the Android SDK manager GUI from GetIt and it worked fine. I don't have Android Studio or VS Code in my VMs. Do you have any of them or an other development tool ?

According to https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/PlatformStatus/en/Main_Page if you use a 12.x release you cannot go under iOS 16. If you want to target iOS 15, use the 11.3 Alexandria and try to add latest iOS SDK as maximal value. Depending on what you use in your project and what Embarcadero uses in the RTL / FMX, the project needs some APIs and libraries. Changing the minimal SDK Version value don't impact that.

Use the contextual menu in the message tab "construction" or "output". You should find a "Select all / Copy" and a "Save in file" option. (if you share it, check if you have any password used for Android or iOS signature)

I don't know for the ISO, but the web install installs all what is needed to work if you check the options during the installation or after by restarting the installer from OPTIONS menu of the IDE. The web installer download only what is needed. The ISO is supposed to contain all packages potentially to install.

thanks

Hi @Rick Howitt Why do you think this error will appear for Delphi 12.3 ? The supported SDK is 35. NDK, SDK and JDK are installed for that. And if you want to change things (install packages, ...) you have now the Android Manager in GetIt. The only thing to do for existing projects is to refresh Android libraries list from the contextual menu in the project manager. If you forced the SDK in the Android manifest, use the default one.