Data Abstract and/or SDK Server on iOS / Android via FireMonkey?

Data Abstract
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Hello,

We have more HTML/CSS/JavaScript developers on staff than C# / Delphi programmers. As a result we are attempting to create a cross-platform database application in HTML/CSS/JavaScript for our service technicians to carry with them in the field where they will most often not have an Internet connection. The idea is for them to download data at the office in the morning then upload when they return to the shop.

The goal is to have a cross platform FireMonkey application that can be deployed to any Win32/Win64/OSX/Android/iOS devices that would have a web browser embedded into the main form to show the “web” pages. The Delphi FireMonkey application providing access to the local SQLite database and handling the uploading / downloading of information. It would also provide an API for talking to the serial and/or network devices in the field.

Is it possible to have a Data Abstract and/or SDK server running on an Android or iOS device?

Thank you,
Brian Wheatley

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not yet. only clients can be created for mobile platforms.
Servers can be created only on Windows or MacOS platforms.

3

Does “not yet” mean it is part of the road map for the near future?

Does the technology exist to do this and you simply haven’t implemented it because it is not something that is requested often (if at all)?

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Client platforms like Android or iOS aren’t designed to be servers so we don’t review possibility to create servers on mobile platforms.
also server-side code isn’t ported to Delphi mobile compiler at all.