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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

Once again, the Windows platform will not be a major part of the discussion in this chapter. After using it as the starting point for compiling your project, you will be deploying apps to other devices running a variety of OSes. Each section will introduce what will be covered and expected. The list will include the following:

  • Bluetooth: Your app will need to run on a platform that supports Bluetooth, and you will need to have two Bluetooth-capable devices that can connect and run your apps.
  • Raspberry Pi: You will need a Raspberry Pi Model 3 or 4 or newer and the ability to burn an image onto a microSD card for booting the Pi.

You may want to have more than two Bluetooth devices, preferably ones on which you can install your own apps, in order to gain the most experience, as we talk about distance calculation and beacons.

The complete code for this chapter can be found online on GitHub: