Chapter 8. Using Specific Platform Features
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Using Android SDK Java classes
- Using iOS Objective C SDK classes
- Displaying PDF files in your app
- Sending Android intents
- Letting your phone talk – using the Android TextToSpeech engine
- Using Java classes in Android apps with Java2OP
- Doing it in the background, the right way – Android services
Introduction
There are situations where if you need a particular Android or iOS feature, FireMonkey does not help you. FireMonkey does a very good job in supporting all the common mobile features, but not all the APIs have been already imported, polished, and wrapped in nice Object Pascal reusable classes or components. What can you do in these cases? The good news is that you can import ...
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