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Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Daniele Spinetti, Daniele Teti
Book Image

Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Daniele Spinetti, Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT). By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using Java classes in Android apps with Java2OP

In this recipe, we will talk about the Java2OP command-line utility. Java2OP.exe (Java To Object Pascal) is a command-line tool that you can use to generate Delphi-native bridge files from Java libraries (JAR or class files). Once having generated the Object Pascal files describing the Java needed classes, you can then use them to provide your Delphi application's access to those Java libraries on Android.

Java2OP.exe is included in the most recent Delphi versions and is available at the following path: <RAD Studio>\bin\converters\java2op\java2op.exe.

Getting ready

This recipe is an upgraded version of the Using Android SDK Java classes recipe. Indeed, while in the...