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Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Spinetti, Daniele Teti
Book Image

Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Spinetti, Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT). By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Introduction

Internet of Things (IoT) is a buzzword today, so what is IoT? IoT is a network of physical devices (such as smartphones and vehicles) that connect and exchange data. In practical terms, IoT identifies the ability of physical devices to detect and collect data from the world around us, and then share this data through the internet. Once the data is shared, it can be processed and used for different purposes.

Imagine what it means to have access to any programmable electronic device with connectivity: from the car, to the lights in your home, or to your thermostat. Wherever we are, we can query them, we can control them, and we can command them.

In this chapter, we will see how to program and control the standard references for micro-controllers and single-board computers in the world—Arduino and Raspberry Pi, respectively.

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