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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

Getting comfortable with the underlying framework

The simplest way to set up a WebBroker module is to create a standalone web server application using Delphi's wizard and test it there first. Here are the steps:

  1. From the New Web Server Application wizard, select Stand-alone GUI application and click Next.
  2. Choose either VCL application or FireMonkey application (it doesn't matter which) and click Next.
  3. The last page of the wizard asks for an HTTP Port. If your server from Chapter 12, Console-Based Server Apps and Services, is still running and you selected 8081 for that one, simply put in 8082 for this one. Click Test Port to make sure it's available, then click Finish.

This creates a simple web server app that you can launch right from Delphi, start and stop, and, with the click of a button, open a browser that conveniently loads the page for your web server. This provides a great way to quickly make changes and test your server.

Select the...