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Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniele Teti
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Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Google Android, and Apple iOS. It helps you to concentrate on the real business and save yourself the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details, or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. It also has a wide range of drag-and-drop controls, helping you code your business logic into your business model, and it compiles natively for desktop and mobile platforms. This book will teach you how to design and develop applications, deploy them on the cloud platform, and distribute them within an organization via Google Play and other similar platforms. You will begin with the basics of Delphi and get acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, unicode encodings and various types of streams. We then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and RTTI. You will get an understanding of how Delphi RTL functions and how to use FireMonkey in a VCL application. We will then cover topics such as multithreading, using the parallel programming library and putting Delphi on a server. We will also take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules and then ride the mobile revolution with FireMonkey. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and deploy cross-platform applications using Delphi .
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Delphi Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Taking a photo and location and sending it to a server continuously


In this recipe, we will talk about many things. We will see how to continuously get an image from the camera, how to get location information, and how to send binary data to a web server. Then, moving on to the server side, we will see how to read binary data from the client and how to generate content on the fly. All these things will be used to implement a simple monitoring system.

Getting ready

This recipe is divided into client and server sides. The client side is a mobile app acting as a special camera able to get image and location and then send it to a remote server. There is also a live preview on the main form, so you can see what you are sending to the server. The server simply gets the information and stores it in the filesystem. This recipe is quite complex, so I avoided an actual SQL (or NoSQL) database to store all the information and used the filesystem.

How to do it…

Launch two instances of Delphi and open one...