Firemonkey to iPhone

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Here I have my Windows laptop with Delphi XE2 and Firemonkey.

I've written a little Firemokey hello world app.
In my hand I have my new iPhone 4S that I just brought home.

What are the steps to get my Firemonkey app onto my iPhone?

There must be something in the documentation, surely?! – David Heffernan Oct 22 '11 at 14:58 — David Heffernan, Oct 22 '11 at 14:58

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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You need a Mac and a membership in one of several Apple developer Programs

You can find prerequisites here

[edit] Steps are described here

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Oct 22 '11 at 15:01

Arjen van der Spek

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '11 at 15:14

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Stefaan Lesage has a video tutorial that walks you through the steps to develop for and deploy to iOS.

answered Oct 22 '11 at 15:14

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I hope the Video Tutorials are useful enough :-) – Stefaan Oct 25 '11 at 13:20

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 23 '11 at 14:05

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Tim Anderson's Blog is another good resource.

answered Oct 23 '11 at 14:05

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 31 '11 at 00:03

If you have an iPhone 4S with iOS 5 it is only compatible with XCode 4.2 which only runs on OSX Lion. I believe that FireMonkey and the Free Pascal modules are not yet compatible with Lion and XCode 4.2. I think I may have seen on a blog that there is a beta version of FireMonkey around which will work on Lion with XCode 4.2

I understand you will need XCode 3.2.6 on Snow Leopard which will allow you to deploy your application to an iPhone running iOS 4 if you sign up, and pay, to join one of the iOS development programs ($99).

Once you've done that there are some good tutorials on the Embarcadero web site as well as YouTube.

I've written an iOS app that runs in the simulator but I have an iPhone with iOS 5 so stuck at thsi moment as I cannot deploy to the phone. Everything else works well though and FireMonkey appears to be pretty good if you have a Delphi background and I'm sure it will get better.

disregarding the "firemonkey only runs on 3.2.6" aspect, it's not true that you need lion to develop for IOS 5.0 . I run IOS 4.2 on Snow Leopard 10.6.8, and it supports IOS 5.0 just fine. I have built apps and installed them on an Ipod touch running 5.0, as well as using the IOS simulator under 5.0 on Snow Leopard, and an onto an Iphone 4.2 and ipad running IOS 4.2, to be fair however, I don't use fireMonkey, and i have not tried installing on a IOS4s device. keen to check out fireMonkey however, as delphi was my tool of trade for many years. — unsynchronized, Jan 14 '12 at 23:45

Firemonkey to iPhone

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