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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

Summary

You now know how to separate your code for working with teams or developers with other tools by creating dynamic libraries. You also learned how to modularize your code into runtime packages and then bundle them into components for quick placement on forms. Throughout this chapter, tips and examples for supporting other platforms were shown, giving you the flexibility to move forward in a way that best suits your workflow. Organized libraries of code structured in ways to support a variety of scenarios will not only increase the value and life of projects you develop but also add awareness to your Delphi programming expertise.

Now let's dive into LiveBindings, a feature of Delphi that allows you to visually hook up components at design time—basically, a way to make FireMonkey components data-aware.