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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

Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server

Looking at the different options available for Delphi, the most feature-rich and powerful architecture for building mobile backends is RAD Server. Unlike other types of Delphi server applications, RAD Server is pre-built and includes core features out of the box.

In this chapter, we’ll introduce the key elements of RAD Server, without going too deep into all of the features, as the features themselves would take an entire book. This is what we are going to cover:

  • RAD Server setup
  • Building RAD Server resources
  • The ToDo list in RAD Server
  • Creating a client app for RAD Server

The goal of this chapter is to introduce you to RAD Server and explain its core features and how you can write your own web service endpoints and call them in a client app. Of course, we’ll do this by building practical demos as we usually do in this book.