Delphi and Firebase: Remote configuration

Hi all,
as you know Firebase is a backend service that include a data storage service. One of common example of this kind of service is Remote Configuration, that allows you to change the behavior or appearance of your app (ex. change the welcome message of your app) without changing the app source code.
I've just updated the Firebase4Delphi repository with a new demo : RemoteConfigDemo.
In this demo I implemented a mechanism to allow to change the behavior and appearance of your app without publishing an app update.
The process is very simple, you have to:

1. create a JSON Object in your console project that represents the app configuration
2. Wraps that configuration in your app
3. Check when configuration change and communicate it to your app

In this demo you have the possibilities to change the style of your application, according to OS, at run time.

Firebase Console 

AquaGraphite.style configured at run-time

RubyGraphite.style configured at run-time

ASAP I'll post a short video to show the power of this feature.

Custom Font for View

Hi developers,
today I want to show you how to set a custom font to a View either by code or using an XML file.

The first way is very simple: just copy the font file into "assets/fonts/"  folder and  load it using Typeface class, calling createFromAssets method.

TextView txtView1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
Typeface externalFont = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/CONSOLA.TTF");
txtView1.setTypeface(externalFont);

Very simple! The hardest way is set custom Font using an XML file, especially by using styles!!
Yes it is possible! unlike what you read in various forums...
Just extremize the concept of custom view.
So the first thing to do is create a CustomView (in this case is a TextView but the concept is valid for all View), within a method to set the "Custom Font" that we call in the constructor of View:

 public CustomFontTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        setCustomFont(context, attrs);
    }

    public CustomFontTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        setCustomFont(context, attrs);
    }

    private void setCustomFont(Context ctx, AttributeSet attrs) {
        TypedArray a = ctx.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.CustomFontTxtView);
        String customFont = a.getString(R.styleable.CustomFontTxtView_customFont);
        setCustomFont(ctx, customFont);
        a.recycle();
    }

    public boolean setCustomFont(Context ctx, String asset) {
        Typeface tf = null;
        try {
        tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(ctx.getAssets(), asset);  
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e(TAG, "Error to get typeface: "+e.getMessage());
            return false;
        }
        setTypeface(tf);  
        return true;
    }

to be able to change from xml we need to create our style resources in this way:

And now we can set the font from layout XML file!!!:

Here you can download the complete example.