Debug your mobile apps on Android devices
You have made your first application with 4D for Android. Congratulations!
After visualizing the simulator’s result, you want to test it on your smartphone to appreciate the interaction, the fluidity…
It’s straightforward! All it takes is one action on the smartphone and another one in the project. Let’s see the details.
Introducing our new partner download portal!
Greetings Partners!
We are pleased to announce a new way to download 4D LTS, Beta Nightly Builds, and hotfixes.
4D now offers a new online portal, where you will be able to find the build you are looking for! Instead of searching through the forum posts for the builds (beta or nightly or hotfix), you can now find them all in one place!
Opening the Runtime Explorer
The Runtime Explorer is accessible to users belonging to the group having access to Design mode. Let’s see how to use it another way.
Developing with 4D in a dark environment on macOS
Since 4D v19, you can create applications on macOS that support dark mode, so you can match your users’ taste by giving them the possibility to choose either light or dark style applications.
With 4D v19 R3, we are giving you, as a developer, the choice when developing your application. 4D Developer Edition integrates seamlessly with the light or dark look of macOS to avoid the battle between light and dark mode that has been waging for years!
XML invisible characters on stage!
Default End Of Line character and Byte Order Mark usage in text files have been modified in 4D v19 R2. With 4D v19 R3, 4D extends this behavior to XML files. Let’s see how.
4D for Mobile: Build Great Mobile Apps Using Computed Attributes
As you probably know, computed attributes are available starting from 4D v19 R3. A blog post is available that presents this great new feature.
As we always propose the best and complete user experience to our mobile app developers, computed attributes are compatible with all your iOS and Android projects.
Debug on the server with scalable web sessions
Scalable web sessions were a significant improvement brought by 4D v18 R6. They allow you to use 4D tags, 4D actions, and REST API in preemptive processes, even in interpreted mode, on a 4D server. However, to debug such programs, you needed to open your development environment on the server to make it switch to cooperative mode, as the debugger window cannot be opened with preemptive processes. This way, until v19 R2, you could debug REST, 4D actions, or 4D tags. From v19 R3, all of this has become much easier, and you can debug on the server-side simply by attaching the debugger to it, as usual.
4D Write Pro: Where are my formulas?
When a 4D Write Pro document contains external elements resulting from expressions or formulas, they are visible when the “Display expressions” mode is used. Still, they are blended into the text when the values are displayed. This is what you want for a final document, but it is sometimes useful to easily view these calculated values while writing the document. Well, 4D v19 R3 is giving you new display options for this purpose!
4D and Microsoft 365 access
In the 4D v18 R6, 4D introduced OAuth 2.0 authentication to access emails through IMAP, SMTP, or POP3 transporters. Starting with 4D v19 R3, 4D continues to implement OAuth 2.0 protocol and provides a way to request easily by programming a token from the Microsoft identity platform to connect to the API for Microsoft 365.
Bcrypt support for passwords
Security is a fundamental topic for today’s business solution systems. At 4D, we understand its importance; that’s why we keep delivering features that tackle this topic.
And with 4D v19 R3, 4D now uses a stronger hashing algorithm for user passwords. Let’s find out more!
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