{"id":1601,"date":"2013-09-14T13:12:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T01:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2013-09-14T13:14:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T01:14:37","slug":"ios-6-x-now-required-by-firemonkey-in-xe5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1601\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 6.x Now Required By FireMonkey in XE5"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute]<\/span><\/span><p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/docwiki.embarcadero.com\/RADStudio\/XE4\/en\/FireMonkey_Platform_Prerequisites\">XE4 FireMonkey supported iOS 5.1<\/a>.  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/docwiki.embarcadero.com\/RADStudio\/XE5\/en\/FireMonkey_Platform_Prerequisites\">platform requirements for XE5<\/a> this has now increased to <strong>iOS 6<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This something to be aware of.  Even if your application <em>could<\/em> run on older, simpler devices, the <strong>FireMonkey<\/strong> runtime has demands of it&#8217;s own, over and above those of any application you might develop.  Even &#8220;<em>Hello World<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FireMonkey XE5<\/strong> only runs on <strong>Android<\/strong> devices with <strong>NEON<\/strong> hardware.  This includes my <strong>Galaxy SII<\/strong> phone for example but <em>not<\/em> my <strong>ASUS TF101<\/strong> because this uses the <strong>Tegra2<\/strong> chipset which does not include the necessary <strong>NEON<\/strong> silicon.<\/p>\n<p>And now, as well as a relatively high bar of entry on <strong>Android<\/strong>, that bar has been raised just that little bit higher for <strong>iOS<\/strong> as well.  With <strong>FireMonkey XE5<\/strong> now only supporting <strong>iOS 6.x<\/strong> and later, <strong>1st Gen iPads<\/strong> are now not supported either, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute]<\/span><\/span>In XE4 FireMonkey supported iOS 5.1. According to the platform requirements for XE5 this has now increased to iOS 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,207],"tags":[135,208],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi","category-xe5","tag-firemonkey","tag-xe5-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-pP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}