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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to use RAD Server to build multi-tier architectures and provide a lot of reusable functionality to build great mobile backends for your cross-platform, mobile Delphi apps.

As Delphi’s RAD technology and FireMonkey make you fast at building the UI of an app, compared to other development tools, RAD Server makes you fast at building and publishing web services and the backend of your mobile and desktop applications. This chapter offered only an introduction to RAD Server, as it is a very complex technology with many built-in features.

The next chapter will change focus; we will be getting back to mobile and focusing on the final steps of mobile development: deployment to app stores.