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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

Technical requirements

This chapter simply requires using Delphi on a Windows 10 machine to explore different project types. There will be screenshots of short example applications running on different platforms but they will be brief and only exist to showcase what lies ahead. The code for a couple of small Windows projects, including a batch script for compiling several projects is on GitHub at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Fearless-Cross-Platform-Development-with-Delphi/tree/master/Chapter02

Exploring project types and target platforms

As we look at each project type in this section, there will be different target platforms available. For example, a Windows VCL application can only be built on Windows platforms (either 32-bit or 64-bit), but a multi-device application can have several different target platforms. This is shown in the Projects window as the second sub-item under the project name and can be expanded to show the currently supported platforms added for that...