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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

Summary

This was a quick look back at the evolution of Delphi's extensions to Object Pascal, reviewing the basic syntax and briefly looking at interfaces, variants, nested types, and Unicode. Generics and anonymous methods were explained, RTTI and attributes were demonstrated, and finally, inline variables, type inference, and custom managed records were covered to complete the enhancements in the most recent versions. We didn't touch on all areas of what makes Delphi such a great language (such as operator overloading or class helpers) but hopefully, you learned some additional aspects of the language that will solidify your understanding of powerful modern-day programming concepts and increase your productivity with advanced techniques.

With a firm grasp of the IDE, an understanding of the toolset, knowledge of Delphi's project types, and making fine use of the language, you are now ready to go on to the next chapter and start your deep dive into cross-platform...