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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

Technical requirements

The Windows platform will play a minor role in this chapter, being used only as the development base. Android and iOS devices will be the focus of our discussion and the target for the deployment and testing of our applications, showcasing various features of these constantly evolving platforms. For the most part, any Android- or iOS-based phone or tablet supported by Delphi 10.4 will work—we will mention a few things to keep in mind about device capabilities along the way.

You can find the code present in the chapter on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Fearless-Cross-Platform-Development-with-Delphi/tree/master/Chapter10.

Setting up

Before we get into the meat of this chapter, let's quickly set up the app we'll work with. Create your app for this chapter by starting, as usual, with a multi-device application; select the Tabbed with Navigation template, then follow these steps:

  1. Remove the fourth tab and name the three...