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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)

Summary

Graphical interfaces and user experience have been excellent topics to cover. The implementation of layouts using the concepts of Material Design is to provide the user with a rich, simple, and objective application.

At the beginning of this chapter, we presented basic concepts of Material Design and a little bit of information about how Material Design works. Then, we started by implementing a menu in the style of Gmail. The TMultiView component abstracts entire functions of style shadows and animation, which is fantastic.

In Delphi, we can basically build any layout using lines, rectangles, circles, and containers (layouts, grid layouts, and so on). By designing a card-style box that expands and collapses at the click of a button, we also implement a Material Design.

The transition is made smooth with TAnimator and effects, which serve filters like Shadow to make the...