Dalija Prasnikar

As far as I can remember most of the work in formatter was done by XE4. I had few issues reported and I think they were all resolved by that time period (bugs, not feature requests). I cannot verify because old QC is offline. I don't think there are major differences between XE4 and Rio (including versions in between) or should I say if there are differences, chances are that it is more broken now than before because some newer language constructs are not fully supported. Anyway, I never ever use it to format whole units as it still can destroy readability. I only use it on selections.

-Edward A. Lee, "The Problem With Threads" All I can say to Professor Lee is good luck with creating any non trivial mobile application without using threads that will not be killed by the OS for not responding or performing network operations on main thread. Theory is one thing practice another.

Generally, no. I don't know about each and every platform but you either cannot kill unresponsive thread from the outside (application) or you can kill it but effectively doing so will also leave application in totally unstable state. So, if you need to kill the thread, you basically need to kill the application itself.

Actually, there is no race condition because thread is actually started in AfterConstruction. So you can put just about anything you need in thread constructor and create thread in non suspended state.

It is related to same apk. I know for sure you can upload multiple apks because I know some developers have successfully used that feature. So I know this is possible, I just don't know the details and I cannot dig up particular conversations. But, App Bundle is the way to go so you don't have to worry about multiple apks.

I don't know what is exact process, as I never had to do it. Official documentation https://developer.android.com/google/play/publishing/multiple-apks

Play Store allows uploading separate APKs, but using AppBundle is easier.

com.1stlevel.mypackage_name is not a valid application id https://developer.android.com/studio/build/application-id It must have at least two segments (one or more dots). Each segment must start with a letter. All characters must be alphanumeric or an underscore [a-zA-Z0-9_].

You will not get answer to your question. Release dates are unknown to the public. Once version is released it is announced and that is it. Anything else is speculating.

There is ongoing beta open for people on update subscription. You can participate and use it for publishing 64bit app on Play Store. https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/addressing-ios-13-and-android-64-bit-with-rad-studio

Retrieving the results, memory management, zero based strings...

Having good core libraries is essential. Otherwise everybody keeps rolling their own. At the end if you have to use multiple libraries they tend to be incompatible and have duplicated code. So +1000 for having things fixed at the root. Same goes for IDE. Every time some basic functionality is either broken or missing, we need to push harder to have that functionality fixed without relying of various plugins. Having said that, I have utmost respect for all people devoting their time creating those valuable tools and libraries.

Just confirmed by @Marco Cantu installation support is free if you have active subscription.

https://www.embarcadero.com/support you should choose Installation support. What bothers me now, is that as far as I can remember at that page it was clearly marked that installation support was free. Now it does not say that. I will have to check through other channels.

Installation support is free.

C++ Builder still has a long way to go to catch up with Delphi and probably even more to catch up with other C++ based tools. If you still feel like it would be better to use C++ Builder, go to QP and check all the bugs listed under C++ Compiler and C++ RTL to see if there are any serious showstoppers for you.

Just pick the most appropriate section according to the topic you are asking about. There are no too simple questions here 😉

Usually the fastest way to prepare device for debugging is to create blank application in Xcode and run it through its debugger. Xcode will take care of everything. If you also give that application same bundle ID as the real one you are making, Xcode will take care of provisioning profiles and all the certificate stuff. Once you have them, you will have Delphi iOS app up and running (debugging) in no time.

Yes. I think latest one I tried was iOS 12.3, but also tried all versions from iOS 10.

It turns out deploying and running works, debugging does not... (I am just relaying information I have gathered in the meantime, I still haven't tried myself)

Placing bets... it does not... I am not in the rush to try it myself.

Depending on how AnsiString is used, it can be replaced with RawByteString in cross-platform. Only if it interprets stored characters and makes conversions, it cannot.

Unless someone designed framework poorly. There is also possibility that framework is only for Windows and cannot be used as cross-platform solution. Still, people might use FMX only on Windows, so naming framework VCL would be poor choice in such case.

It's logic is mystery to me... it always chooses 26.1.1 for me and I have platforms from 19-28 installed. Why it picks 26 instead of 28?

Chances that it is false positive are about the same as chances you will get eaten up by black hole tomorrow. They need to fix their code. I gave you scenario (code) how this can happen, and something similar happens in their code.