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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

Chapter 14: Using the RAD Server

This book has been all about developing applications for various platforms. For the most part, the term platform means the combination of hardware and an operating system, such as iOS, Android phones, macOS, or Windows PCs. But we've also extended that idea to cover various types of applications on these platforms, such as FireMonkey or VCL apps on Windows or web servers running under IIS or Apache.

The last platform we'll look at in this book extends that idea one more time and builds on the server concepts presented in the last two chapters. RAD Server is the pinnacle of Rapid Application Development (RAD) for building multi-tiered, backend servers. It is a powerful application server platform that provides a foundation for writing modules to extend its functionality with Delphi packages, produces a REST interface for communicating JSON or XML data, handles multiple connections with ease either as a standalone server or running under...