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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

Questions

  1. Are there platform or GUI framework restrictions for using LiveBindings?
  2. What are the two ways we can organize the elements in the LiveBindings Designer?
  3. Which class type is the field of the TPrototypeBindSource component that provides random data visible at design time, and which has a component in the Tool Palette that can be used independently?
  4. How do you access the properties of a TLinkPropertyToField or TLinkControlToField component?
  5. Do you always have to put something in the CustomParse property of a binding link component if CustomFormat has something in it?
  6. What needs to be included in your application's uses clause to provide a custom method's functionality that has been used in a binding expression?