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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)

Creating GUI Apps with FireMonkey

In 2014, Google developed a new version of its Android operating system and created a new design methodology, which was named Material Design. Nowadays, this is one of the biggest design trends. Designed to be fluid, natural, intuitive, and simple to understand, Material Design has several peculiarities and fundamentals.

Material Design aims to synthesize classic concepts of good design with innovation and possibilities brought with technology and science. It delivers a seamless experience across a number of different platforms, whether it be smartphones, computers, or smartwatches.

From enlightenment to how your animations will behave, everything is thought to resemble what would happen if it occurred outside the digital environment.

The Material Design guidelines are quite extensive. This is because its use is primarily geared toward application...