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Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey

By : Andrea Magni
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Book Image

Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey

4 (1)
By: Andrea Magni

Overview of this book

FireMonkey (FMX) is a cross-platform application framework that allows developers to create exciting user interfaces and deliver applications on multiple operating systems (OS). This book will help you learn visual programming with Delphi and FMX. Starting with an overview of the FMX framework, including a general discussion of the underlying philosophy and approach, you’ll then move on to the fundamentals and architectural details of FMX. You’ll also cover a significant comparison between Delphi and the Visual Component Library (VCL). Next, you’ll focus on the main FMX components, data access/data binding, and style concepts, in addition to understanding how to deliver visually responsive UIs. To address modern application development, the book takes you through topics such as animations and effects, and provides you with a general introduction to parallel programming, specifically targeting UI-related aspects, including application responsiveness. Later, you’ll explore the most important cross-platform services in the FMX framework, which are essential for delivering your application on multiple platforms while retaining the single codebase approach. Finally, you’ll learn about FMX’s built-in 3D functionalities. By the end of this book, you’ll be familiar with the FMX framework and be able to build effective cross-platform apps.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Delphi GUI Programming Frameworks
4
Section 2: The FMX Framework in Depth
13
Section 3: Pushing to The Top: Advanced Topics

Understanding responsiveness—visual meaning

In this section, we will briefly review the meaning of responsiveness along with its relevant factors. We will also look at Bootstrap's (https://getbootstrap.com/) grid system.

A visual application is software provided with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The interface is there to let the user interact with the application functionalities. Common tasks are related to reading rendered data, monitoring the progress of tasks running in the background, changing the application state through the available controls, and so on. The actual scenario of the application that will be executed within can be very variegated. Nowadays, the same application can be running against several systems (different devices, different platforms) and driven by users with diverse habits (some may want to let the application be displayed in fullscreen mode, while others may want to use it side by side with other applications).

Of course, this is...