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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

Chapter 1 – Recent IDE Enhancements

  1. The Structure pane is a hierarchical list of components but also shows procedures, variables, used units, and so on and is mostly used for quickly jumping to the declaration in code, whereas the Class Explorer is a TreeView of classes that when clicked shows the fields, methods, and properties in a lower pane.
  2. Right-click and select Show in Explorer from the context menu.
  3. In the __recovery folder of the project.
  4. Right-click on the form and select Hide Non-Visual Components or simply hit Ctrl + H.
  5. When your project requires a style or library installed only via the GetIt Package Manager.
  6. Yes, with the drop-down Desktop menu from the title bar.
  7. Language Server Protocol, the new way that Code Insight is handled, which allows the editor to remain responsive while the code is being parsed and indexed, and also allows Code Insight features while debugging.