[fpc-pascal] Android porting ideas

[Sven Barth]

Am 21.02.2016 19:36 schrieb "Michalis Kamburelis" <michalis.kambi at gmail.com
>:
> >
> > 1) All the file I/O in the FPC RTL is not available so what possible
work arounds are there for loading data from files?
>
> Actually, all the IO in FPC works perfectly. You can read / write
> files just like on any other Unix (although you need to declare
> appropriate permissions in the AndroidManifest.xml first ---
> READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE , WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, otherwise access to
> "/sdcard/..." files will be restricted). For example, config files are
> just normal files on Android. You only use a special function to get
> the proper config file location, but this is done for you by CGE, you
> just use CastleFilesUtils.ApplicationConfig:)

I think he means on FPC's JVM target. There file I/O using Write/Read is
indeed not implemented.

Regards,
Sven
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