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Expert Delphi

By : Paweł Głowacki
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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)

James Bond's toy

Contemporary mobile hardware does not significantly differ in capabilities from agent Bond's gadgets from just a few years ago. Your mobile phone is equipped with all kinds of sensors that you can use in your mobile apps, including location, orientation, motion, ambient light, microphones, speakers, cameras, and plenty of other hardware that you can control.

An app is immersed in the operating system, which is in charge of every aspect of an app execution. In your code, you can respond to different app lifecycle events such as start up, switching to background execution, moving back to the foreground, or app termination. In the end, it is all about responding to different events sent by the operating system and invoking operating system APIs. The FireMonkey library encapsulates access to common mobile operating system functionality through specialized...