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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)

Communication protocols

The Internet of Things (IoT) is based on the fact that a computer program can interact with all kinds of devices, gadgets, and sensors. At the lowest level, interacting with a remote thing needs to be done through a communication protocol.

The world of IoT is very interesting because it is a relatively new concept. When technology is not yet mature, it evolves very quickly and there are many competing solutions and only a few standards. There is still nobody to dominate the IoT market. If you try to look up IoT on the internet, you will find a lot of different answers. Every hardware and software vendor will have a different opinion about what IoT is and how to do it.

It always starts from a problem at hand, and how it can be solved. At one side of the IoT landscape, there are systems based on long-range protocols, such as LoRa, which provide bi-directional...