When you do, press to continue debugging, you’ll find that you’ve broken out of the endless loop, and can proceed to your own break points.įor anyone that doesn’t understand what happened here, the dialog box is a debugging tool which allows you to inspect the value of variables at run-time. You can now close this box and return to your break-point. Now, in the box at the bottom labeled “New value” alter the value from “true” to “false” and click the modify button.

In the drop-down box labeled “expression” type the word “temp” (if it isn’t already there) and press evaluate. When it does, highlight the word “temp” in that line and press + and you’ll be presented with this dialog window… Because the loop is infinite, there should be sufficient time for the debugger to attach and break at the while loop. Place a break point on the line beginning “while temp do” and run the application in debug mode. So you may now be wondering “what good does that do for me? How do I reach my application break points?” Well… What we’ve done here is to introduce an endless loop, which will ensure the application takes sufficient time to load for the debugger to attach. You’ll be taken to the entry point of the application, which looks like this… beginĪpplication. Right click on your project file and select “View Source” I tried turning on the Android developer option “Wait for debugger to attach” on the device it’s self, but sadly, I fear this feature may be specifically for use with Android Developer Studio as it fails to ever attach under Rad Studio / Delphi.

For example, if you are loading a library (.so) as a dependency for your application and it fails to initialize.Â In my case, it was working on a boot-strap application which does not depend on FMX, and therefore doesn’t have the start-up time. The debugger usually has plenty of time to attach to the android process because the FMX start-up code takes sufficient time to load.

Sometimes, if your application fails during start-up, the RAD Studio debugger can fail to attach making it difficult to debug the problem.

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