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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)

Your next Delphi mobile app

Your next Delphi app will obviously be very cool and successful. Think big and start small. There are many sources of inspiration and places to learn about Delphi.

Beyond the Delphi home page (http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi) and Delphi rich online documentation (http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/), there is also a vibrant community of developers (http://community.embarcadero.com), where you can read news, blogs, articles, and learn about online webinars and live Delphi events organized in your neighborhood, and ask questions.

Delphi community site app competitions for the coolest app are regularly organized. Check out what other Delphi developers are building and you will be surprised about all the kinds of interesting apps being built with Delphi, such as the Skype Windows client. I'm looking forward to seeing your next great...