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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

In addition to having Delphi 10.4 Sydney Professional installed in a Windows 10 64-bit environment, you should also have access to a Mac and/or a mobile device to build the sample applications discussed in this chapter for other platforms. For details, refer to the Technical Requirements of the previous chapter.

NOTE

If you have Delphi Enterprise or Architect and want to try the examples in this book on the Linux platform, you will also need 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, or 18.04, or Red Hat Enterprise 7. If you don't have a separate machine with Linux, you can install the Linux subsystem right within Windows 10 and it works well as a test environment for Delphi server applications.

All the code for this chapter can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Fearless-Cross-Platform-Development-with-Delphi/blob/master/Chapter05.