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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)

Using visual live bindings

There are many tools for developers on the market. What makes Delphi one of the most productive development environments is the Rapid Application Development (RAD) paradigm, where you can use reusable components and very quickly assemble them together to create a working application. In Delphi there is hardly any prototyping phase of the project. When you are building an app, it very quickly starts to look like the final product. Most applications work with data. Graphical user interfaces that we design typically display information coming from a database or from a service in the cloud. In Delphi you can preview the data at design time.

There are two visual frameworks in Delphi for building graphical user interfaces. There is the Visual Component Library, the VCL, which is arguably the best library for building native applications for Windows. There...