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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)

Do you speak Object Pascal?

The Object Pascal language has been designed for teaching good programming practices. It is a high-level, modern, and strongly typed compiled language that supports structured and object-oriented programming.

In order to solve a problem using a computer, you need to define a finite set of actions that operate on certain data or, in other words, to define an algorithm. An algorithm expressed in a programming language is a computer program, and its actions are described as programming language instructions.

One or more actions performed on certain data can be encapsulated in the Object Pascal language as a routine or a class. In Object Pascal, routines are called functions. If a function does not return a value, it is called a procedure. Classes are the corner stones of object-oriented programming, which is the most important approach to building apps...