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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 requirements for this chapter include Delphi Enterprise or higher and InterBase 2020 running on your main Windows development machine. While RAD Server can be installed on either Windows or Linux, only Windows will be discussed in this chapter, with references to the Further reading section for information on deploying to Linux.

We will also make modifications to our cross-platform app, MyParks, and screenshots from both iOS and Android will be included—it is up to you which of those platforms you choose to use with RAD Server during your study of this topic.

This chapter makes heavy use of REST server concepts, specifically the four most popular HTTP request methods—GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. If you're not familiar with these terms, they refer to the type of query made to a web server. When you browse a website, you're making a GET request to the server for a specific page. When you fill out a web form and submit it, the browser...