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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)

Game of Memory

Let's put together the things that you have learnt about FireMonkey architecture so far, and let's build a complete, but simple, game. In the process, we will look at how to handle images with the TImageList component and some basics of building FireMonkey 2D user interfaces.

Designing the game

Game of Memory is a board game. Player is presented with a grid of tiles. Every tile has an image, but all images are initially hidden. When the user touches a tile, its image is revealed. When the next tile is touched, the image of the currently visible tile is made hidden again, and the image of the new tile is shown. So, at every moment during the game, only one image is shown. The number of tiles has...