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Expert Delphi

By : Paweł Głowacki
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Expert Delphi

By: Paweł Głowacki

Overview of this book

Delphi is the most powerful Object Pascal IDE and component library for cross-platform native app development. It enables building natively compiled, blazingly fast apps for all major platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux. If you want to build server-side applications, create web services, and have clear GUIs for your project, then this book is for you. The book begins with a basic primer on Delphi helping you get accustomed to the IDE and the Object Pascal language and will then quickly move on to advanced-level concepts. Through this book, we’ll help you understand the architecture of applications and will teach you the important concepts of the FireMonkey library, show you how to build server-side services, and enable you to interact with the Internet of Things. Towards the end, you will learn to integrate your app with various web services and deploy them. By the end of the book, you will be able to build powerful, cross-platform, native apps for iOS and Android with a single code base.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Understanding web services

Not so long time ago and not in a galaxy far, far away, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. In his vision for an information management system, individual documents should be hyper-linked with each other through special Uniform Resource Locators (URL) and anyone reading a document inside of a web browser program would be able to jump directly to a referenced hyper-text document. He was also the one who designed the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and implemented the first versions of web server and web browser programs, that used the HTTP protocol for communication. The fact that his ideas were from the very beginning open, public and for everyone contributed to the enormous, global success of the World Wide Web and something that nowadays we take for granted when opening our favorite web browser and searching for information...