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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)

Delphi language bridges

So far, we have seen how to access cross-platform implementations of services such as sensors, address book, maps, and others. All of them come out of the box. Luckily, Delphi comes with the source code, so it is possible to inspect how Delphi itself is accessing the underlying mobile APIs on Android and iOS. All supported operating systems are different and there are different ways of accessing their raw APIs.

Let's consider a simple example of making your mobile device vibrate in code. That is not something that Delphi provides, but we can use this case to analyze the process of accessing any functionality that is not readily accessible in Android and iOS.

Vibrating on Android

Android is based...