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Delphi Programming Projects

By : William Duarte
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Delphi Programming Projects

By: William Duarte

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform programming language and software development kit that supports rapid application development for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. With the help of seven practical projects, this book will guide you through the best practices, Delphi Run-Time Library (RTL) resources, and design patterns. Whether you use the Visual Component Library (VCL) or FireMonkey (FMX) framework, these design patterns will be implemented in the same way in Delphi, using Object Pascal. In the first few chapters, you will explore advanced features that will help you build rich applications using the same code base for both mobile and desktop projects. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to implement microservice architecture in Delphi. As you get familiar with the various aspects of Delphi, you will no longer need to maintain source code for similar projects, program business rules on screens, or fill your forms with data access components. By the end of this book, you will have gained an understanding of the principles of clean code and become proficient in building robust and scalable applications in Delphi.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

iOS background mode

Forget the concept of Windows services and Android services; in iOS, things are a bit different. You need to make few modifications if you want your application to perform a task while running in the background on iOS, since this functionality is not offered by default in Delphi for iOS.

A file named <appname>.info.plist is created when Delphi compiles your iOS application to the selected release type (Debug or Release). In <appname>.info.plist, <appname> is your application name and this file is deployed to iOS as info.plist. This is the file that iOS uses to determine whether your application uses background services.

Background services supported on iOS are described in detail in the Apple iOS documentation at http://embt.co/UIBackgroundModes.

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