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December 14, 2017

Debugging Delphi Apps on Android 8.1 Works

With Android 8.1 Google has fixed an issue preventing debugging of applications on device

When Google introduced Android 8 this summer, they increased the platform security but happened to block socket access to the debugger, basically preventing debugging applications on a device. You'd see the error message "Can't open socket: Permission denied." as reported also at https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-18992. The issue was not a change in out debugger support, but a problem at the operating system level. You can read some of the discussion here: https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/447

Now the good news is Google fixed the issue (as indicated in the thread above). We tested it on previews and it seemed fine. Now Google has shipped Android Oreo 8.1, I got it for my Nexus 5X device this morning, installed it, and I can now debug a Delphi application as usual. I captured an image of the program stopped at a breakpoint below.

Now this is not related to 10.2.2 in any way, as the change was only on the Android side, not the RAD Studio side. What we have fixed at our end is the display of the device name as target, but that wasn't a really big issue anyway.

posted by marcocantu @ 10:43AM | 5 Comments [0 Pending]

5 Comments

Debugging Delphi Apps on Android 8.1 Works

 Speaking of apps with Delphi 10.2.2, when will there be a version 
of the PAServer compatible with 10.2.2 ? The version that ships 
with 10.2.2 says it is version 10.2.1 when run on a Mac, and our 
iOS development is impossible since we moved from 10.2.1 to 
10.2.2.

Comment by Olivier Beltrami [http://www.qppstudio.net] on January 14, 16:33

Debugging Delphi Apps on Android 8.1 Works

 Do you happen to check BLE scanning on 
Android 8.1 when app’s target platform is set to 
26? My tests show no devices are discovered at 
all.

Comment by Vsevolod on September 28, 18:32

Debugging Delphi Apps on Android 8.1 Works

 Despite putting the latest available (CLT-L 29 
8.1.0.155636) android update on to a Huawei P20 Pro 
phone, after restoring it to factory scratch, I still can't 
debug using Delphi.  Yes, create a file, put it across and 
run it, but with no error messages at all, the debugger 
appears to be non-existent.  Any ideas please?

Comment by Erik Wilson [erikcgwilson@gmail.com] on November 19, 06:22

Debugging Delphi Apps on Android 8.1 Works

 I am experiencing the same error when running with 
debugging. Can't open socket: Permission denied. 
Exiting. But my app runs in Android device, except 
that the debugger failed and exited.

I thought that was within my app but when I tried 
blank form, I am getting the same error. There must 
be something wrong with debugger.

I hope you are able to took into this.

Comment by Ciodensky on April 29, 01:22

Debugging Delphi Apps on Android 8.1 Works

 It does not work for me in Android 8, but it works with the Android 
Studio.
Unfortunately,  Android 8.1 is not available for Samsung Galaxy S7.

Comment by Hamid on March 24, 19:55

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