ADO Stored Procedure Blank Record Issue Fixed

I recently had an issue where I had an ADO stored procedure (TADOStoredProc) that returned a single record from a SQL Server database and the first time it was open it worked fine, however the second time it appeared to return a blank record. After some investigation it appeared the record count was 1, but the recno value was -1.

It appears that when you 'open' the stored procedure it is not guaranteed to position the record pointer on the first record. The solution is to simply call 'first' just after calling 'open'.

Delphi XE Android App Emulator Problem

I have recently been using Delphi XE5 do produce an Android mobile app. All was looking good until I wanted to run the app, the Android SDK comes with an Android emulator, but when I tried running the App from Delphi with the emulator running I just got a blank screen. When I plugged an Android device in it ran fine, so I thought it must be an issue with the emulator. After a few days of using the device I thought I would look into how to fix the emulator issue. All you need to do to fix this problem is to turn on the 'Use host GPU' option when setting up the device in the emulator, after that it will run, however there is another annoying issue, it is very slow.