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Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By : David Cornelius
Book Image

Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By: David Cornelius

Overview of this book

Delphi is a strongly typed, event-driven programming language with a rich ecosystem of frameworks and support tools. It comes with an extensive set of web and database libraries for rapid application development on desktop, mobile, and internet-enabled devices. This book will help you keep up with the latest IDE features and provide a sound foundation of project management and recent language enhancements to take your productivity to the next level. You’ll discover how simple it is to support popular mobile device features such as sensors, cameras, and GPS. The book will help you feel comfortable working with FireMonkey and styles and incorporating 3D user interfaces in new ways. As you advance, you’ll be able to build cross-platform solutions that not only look native but also take advantage of a wide array of device capabilities. You’ll also learn how to use embedded databases, such as SQLite and InterBase ToGo, synchronizing them with your own custom backend servers or modules using the powerful RAD Server engine. The book concludes by sharing tips for testing and deploying your end-to-end application suite for a smooth user experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to deliver modern enterprise applications using Delphi confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming Power
5
Section 2: Cross-Platform Power
11
Section 3: Mobile Power
15
Section 4: Server Power

Comparing different approaches

There are several database options available for Delphi programmers when you have the power of a desktop environment, but this isn't the case in the cross-platform arena. The two we'll look at in this chapter use very different approaches to provide database capabilities, and each has their pros and cons. First, we'll look at InterBase and its several editions.

Learning about InterBase's editions

InterBase is Embarcadero's database offering and has a long history of being a pioneer of small footprint databases requiring little management, while still providing solid performance with multiple connected users. It's renowned for being able to quickly recover from backups and provides 256-bit encryption, role-based security, scalable replication with change views, robust transactional support, and strict compliance with SQL standards. Its rich language supports building complex stored procedures and triggers with generators...