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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)

Enhancing your apps

You have made it! Your app is in the App Store and you know that at least your friends are downloading and installing it on their device. But it is not the end of the life of your app. It is just the beginning. It has just made it through the first cycle from a faint idea in your mind, through development and testing to final deployment.

Some time will pass and you will start realizing that there are things in your app that could have been done better. There are some bugs to be fixed, ways to make it faster, and ideas of how to improve user experience and add new functionality.

One important saying fact that better is the enemy of good. Why change things that are working? But the change is inevitable. The only thing that never changes is the change itself. You might be a one person app development company or part of a bigger team. Regardless of the number of...