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Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By : David Cornelius
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we've examined ways to store and retrieve relational data on mobile devices and showed how FireDAC can work with a variety of products. We learned about several editions of the enterprise-grade InterBase database that have been made available for mobile devices, thus providing advanced security and scalability within an application that can be held in your hand. SQLite, a robust and open source library that is available everywhere, was shown to be quite capable, despite its simplicity and price.

Free database management tools were then introduced for each of these products. After that, we loaded those databases and showed you how to access tables and queries from your Delphi environment, as well as how to set up the connections to edit the same data when it's deployed to a mobile device. Finally, considerations for working with edit controls were presented, giving you a great start toward managing mobile data in a user-friendly way.

Now that...