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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

Besides the typical requirements of this book for running Delphi 10.4 Sydney on a Windows 10 64-bit computer, to run all the examples listed in this chapter and the ones in the rest of this book, you will also need access to one or more of the following:

  • An Apple Mac running a minimum of macOS 10.13 High Sierra accessible via IP address from your Windows development machine
  • A 64-bit iOS device (iPod Touch, iPad, or iPhone) running a minimum of iOS 11 connected to a Mac via USB
  • A 32-bit or 64-bit Android device running a minimum of Android Marshmallow (6) connected to your Windows machine via USB

    Note

    The operating system version of the mobile device you want to test with can be a troublesome area when supporting multiple platforms with Delphi. If all you do is write Android apps with Android tools and Apple apps with Apple tools, you should be fine. But development tools that are native to neither must carefully test and debug the libraries that...