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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

Surveying website-building options in Delphi

There are many ways to build content-rich, dynamic websites in Delphi. Some of these are server-side only, producing SOAP or REST APIs to be consumed by client applications (WebBroker, DataSnap, and RAD Server, to name a few). Other tools build end-to-end solutions from the ground up, encompassing databases, grids, a rich set of user interface components, and themed web views (IntraWeb and UniGUI). Still, others are custom IDEs that use a Pascal-like language to generate HTML/JavaScript code that works only in the browser and connects to web servers for their data (Elevate Web Builder, TMS Software Web Core, and Smart Mobile Studio). There are also several open source frameworks with a wide following (DelphiMVCFramework, mORMot, and Mars Curiosity).

To see an excellent overview of these options, visit the first link in the Further reading section at the end of this chapter, called Ultimate Web Frameworks for Ultra-Fast Web Application...