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Expert Delphi - Second Edition

By : Marco Cantù, Paweł Głowacki
Book Image

Expert Delphi - Second Edition

By: Marco Cantù, Paweł Głowacki

Overview of this book

Master Delphi, the most powerful Object Pascal IDE and versatile component library for cross-platform native app development, by harnessing its capabilities for building natively compiled, blazingly fast apps for all major platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Expert Delphi begins with a quick overview of Delphi, helping you get acquainted with the IDE and the Object Pascal language. The book then quickly progresses to more advanced concepts, followed by the architecture of applications and the FireMonkey library, guiding you through building server-side services, parallel programming, and database access. Toward the end, you’ll learn how to integrate your app with various web services and deploy them effectively. By the end of this book, you’ll be adept at building powerful, cross-platform, native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS—all from a single code base.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Building Blocks
6
Part 2: Going Mobile
12
Part 3: From Data to Services
19
Index

Working with Mobile Operating Systems

In this chapter, we are going to move from playing with FireMonkey to building useful cross-platform apps that access mobile hardware and operating system features with high-level components, abstracting away the underlying mobile APIs.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • James Bond’s toy
  • What am I running on?
  • The life of an app
  • Sensing the world
  • Taking photos
  • Using share sheets
  • Camera, action!
  • Notify me!
  • Navigating the web
  • Delphi language bridges

The objective of this chapter is to learn how to create native cross-platform apps that use different frameworks and functionality provided by mobile operating systems.