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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)

Object Pascal Phrase Book

This book is aimed at Delphi programmers with some previous Delphi experience. The Object Pascal language of Delphi keeps evolving, and knowing it well is of the utmost importance to every programmer, even the experienced ones. Not all the concepts that you can find in many Object Pascal tutorials are discussed here, but the idea is to have a solid walkthrough of even the fundamental language concepts, with the focus on newer constructs and those that are important to mobile development with Delphi.

Tokens

Tokens are the smallest meaningful pieces of text that a compiler understands. Tokenization is the very first thing that the compiler does when starting to process a source code file. There are...