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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)

Building your own SMS sending service with the REST API

For some types of applications, it's necessary to identify the user uniquely during the registration phase: just think about services like WhatsApp or Telegram. To do this, a text message (SMS) is usually sent to a telephone number containing a code to be validated to complete the registration process. In this recipe, we will see how to build an SMS sending service to be used, for example, for the situation we have just described.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will show you how to build your own SMS Sending Service: a RESTFul server part will provide REST APIs to queue and dequeue SMS messages; a mobile application (built only for Android OS) will query these...