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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)

What I'm running on?

Building apps for multiple operating systems from the very same source code imposes unique challenges. Your code might be running on iOS or Android. It only takes two mouse clicks to recompile your app for a different target. Certain features might exist on a given platform and not be there on other platforms. Going further, new functionality is constantly being added to platforms, so we may want to know on which platform and operating system version your app is being executed.

This can be done with the TOSVersion record type defined in the System.SysUtils unit. It has a class constructor that instantiates all its fields. The TOSVersion record type has inner TArchitecture and TPlatform enumerated types and corresponding public class properties to read the current operating system architecture, platform, name, and major and minor numbers. Additionally...