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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)

What we have learned

Throughout this book, we have made the journey through different topics related to Delphi programming from the perspective of building mobile apps.

The main focus in the first chapter was to install and configure the Delphi Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for cross-platform mobile development. That's the single, biggest feature of Delphi cross-platform development: from one source code base, from one project, just by switching target platforms in the project manager, you can natively compile your code to all major mobile and desktop platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

The second chapter was all about the Object Pascal programming language. From basic concepts and the structure of a Delphi program, we quickly moved to understanding more advanced constructs, such as anonymous methods, generics, custom attributes, and using...