What this book covers

Chapter 1, Fasten Your Seat Belts, introduces you to the Delphi IDE and guides you on the first step for building an app for various platforms.

Chapter 2, Mind Your Language, offers an introduction to Delphi’s Object Pascal language, covering some of its foundations and some of the most recent extensions to the language.

Chapter 3, Packing Up Your Toolbox, delves into some of the core runtime library features, focusing on managing files in different formats, including JSON and XML.

Chapter 4, Using the Parallel Programming Library, focuses on multi-threading, parallel programming, and threads synchronization.

Chapter 5, Playing with FireMonkey, introduces the FireMoney UI library, covering its foundations while guiding you in the development of an actual app.

Chapter 6, FireMonkey in 3D, goes over the development of 3D apps in FireMonkey, showing multiple different techniques.

Chapter 7, Building User Interfaces with Style, delves into the styles architecture, which is the core architectural element of FireMonkey.

Chapter 8, Working with Mobile Operating System, focuses the attention on the device sensors, cameras, and integrated web browsers.

Chapter 9, Desktop Apps and Mobile Bridges, touches on desktop development with UI controls more interesting for desktop than mobile, and how desktop and mobile apps can work together via a technology called tethering.

Chapter 10, Embedding Databases, introduces database development, the FireDAC data access library, and live bindings.

Chapter 11, Integrating with Web Services, how to call external web services via HTTP, REST clients, SOAP clients, or Cloud access libraries.

Chapter 12, Building Mobile Back-ends, starts looking into the development of server libraries you can use as the backend of your mobile apps, covering WebBroker and DataSnap.

Chapter 13, Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server, is fully focused on the RAd Server technology available in the high-end versions of Delphi.

Chapter 14, App Deployment, covers the deployment of apps to the mobile stores, Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store.

Chapter 15, The Road Ahead, is a short conclusion suggesting things you can do after you’ve finished reading the book.