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Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniele Teti
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Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Google Android, and Apple iOS. It helps you to concentrate on the real business and save yourself the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details, or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. It also has a wide range of drag-and-drop controls, helping you code your business logic into your business model, and it compiles natively for desktop and mobile platforms. This book will teach you how to design and develop applications, deploy them on the cloud platform, and distribute them within an organization via Google Play and other similar platforms. You will begin with the basics of Delphi and get acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, unicode encodings and various types of streams. We then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and RTTI. You will get an understanding of how Delphi RTL functions and how to use FireMonkey in a VCL application. We will then cover topics such as multithreading, using the parallel programming library and putting Delphi on a server. We will also take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules and then ride the mobile revolution with FireMonkey. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and deploy cross-platform applications using Delphi .
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Using TListView to show and search local data


In many cases with mobile apps, data is read from remote servers and then stored locally to make it available even without an Internet connection. In this recipe, you'll see how to read and write to a file as well as how to show and search that data in a TListView.

Getting ready

This recipe is short and simple, but it is really useful because the concepts exposed are reusable and allow you to gain confidence with some very important best practices. The final aspect of the app is shown in the following screenshot. Note that the remove button is visible only when an item is selected:

The Simple to-do app; when an item is selected, the Delete button is visible

How to do it…

  1. Create a new mobile app by navigating to File | New | Other… | Delphi Projects | Multi-Device Application.

  2. Choose the Header/Footer template and click on OK.

  3. As soon as Delphi creates the project template, save all the files with the following names:

    • Save the project as SimpleTODO.dproj...