Delphi Cookbook

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Delphi Cookbook

By : Daniele Teti

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Delphi Cookbook

By: Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi Cookbook

Delphi Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Delphi Basics

Changing your application's look and feel with VCL styles and no code

Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime

Customizing TDBGrid

Using the owner's draw combos and listboxes

Creating a stack of embedded forms

Manipulating JSON

Manipulating and transforming XML documents

I/O in the twenty-first century – knowing streams

Putting your VCL application in the tray

Creating a Windows service

Associating a file extension with your application on Windows

Become a Delphi Language Ninja

Become a Delphi Language Ninja

Fun with anonymous methods – using higher-order functions

Writing enumerable types

RTTI to the rescue – configuring your class at runtime

Duck typing using RTTI

Creating helpers for your classes

Checking strings with regular expressions

Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey

Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey

Giving a new appearance to the standard FireMonkey controls using styles

Creating a styled TListBox

Impressing your clients with animations

Using master/details with LiveBindings

Showing complex vector shapes using paths

Using FireMonkey in a VCL application

The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor

Talking with the main thread using a thread-safe queue

Synchronizing multiple threads using TEvent

Displaying a measure on a 2D graph like an oscilloscope

Putting Delphi on the Server

Putting Delphi on the Server

Web client JavaScript application with WebBroker on the server

Converting a console service application to a Windows service

Serializing a dataset to JSON and back

Serializing objects to JSON and back using RTTI

Sending a POST HTTP request encoding parameters

Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker

Controlling remote applications using UDP

Using App Tethering to create a companion app

Creating DataSnap Apache modules

Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey

Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey

Taking a photo, applying effects, and sharing it

Using listview to show and search local data

Do not block the main thread!

Using SQLite databases to handle a to-do list

Using a styled TListView to handle a long list of data

Taking a photo and location and sending it to a server continuously

Talking to the backend

Making a phone call from your app!

Tracking the application's life cycle

Using Specific Platform Features

Using Specific Platform Features

Using Android SDK Java classes

Using iOS Objective-C SDK classes

Displaying PDF files in your app

Sending Android intents

Letting your phone talk – using the Android TextToSpeech engine

Index

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Introduction

In this chapter, we'll see how to develop mobile apps using Delphi. The recipes in this chapter require a working development configuration of your PC and in the case of iOS, your Mac to talk with the Android or iOS device. A detailed tutorial on how to properly configure your system for this purpose can be found on the Embarcadero DocWiki. To develop and deploy an app for iOS, you require an Apple computer and an actual iOS device, while to develop and deploy for Android, you need to have only the device. There is also an emulator in the SDK where you can deploy an app but, currently, it is very slow; if you want to really develop for Android, having an actual device where deploying is faster than using an emulator is recommended.

Note

Visit the following links for more information and relevant documentation that will help you to configure different environments:

For Android configuration: The Set Up Your Development Environment on Windows PC (Android) documentation can be...