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Expert Delphi

By : Paweł Głowacki
Book Image

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)

Summary

Your app is in the App Store now and you have become a developer superhero that writes code once and natively compiles it to all major mobile and desktop platforms from the very same source code files. Nobody can beat your productivity!

In this chapter, we have walked through steps necessary to prepare and publish your Delphi apps to major App Stores. When your app is there in an App Store, it is not the end of its life. We have also discussed here a typical life cycle iteration of an app from change requests, planning, development and testing, and finally to automatic deployment.

It is your move now!