Porting a win32 application (using Treeview and XMLDocument controls) to FireMonkey Mobile Application - Delphi

Question

I started the process of porting my win32 application over to a "FireMonkey Mobile Application – Delphi",.

The initial demo worked great until I tried to build it for Android. It seems the controls I used (TTreeview) and TXMLDocument, are only available for win32 and win64. However, When I created a blank Firemonkey Mobile Application – Delphi those two controls were allowed to be used. The Ttreeview control in Firemonkey is different then the one I used in my win 32 application.

So, what mobile plaform are those two controls applicable too (Windows Mobile?)?

I will need to find alternative Firemonkey compatible controls and objects to use for handling the tree display and for XML functionality for porting my app to Android. What should I use?

Answer 1

TXMLDocument works fine on Android if you change the DOMVendor; by default, it uses MSXML. See How do I stop the IDE from referencing Windows-specific XML units in my non-Windows project?; that question has been previously (and very recently) asked and answered here.

The VCL TTreeView is a wrapper around a Windows Common Control, so it is only available on Windows platforms. Delphi does not (at least currently) support Windows Mobile as a target platform, so the only place the VCL TTreeView is available is in VCL-based Win32/Win64 applications. There is no "compatible FMX control" for the VCL TTreeView; you'll need to rewrite your code to work with the FMX TTreeView instead.

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