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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

Technical requirements

RAD Server is installed as part of Delphi Enterprise or Architect. RAD Server is designed as a scalable REST API publishing framework. Its functionality is extended through building Delphi BPL packages that are loaded into the RAD Server at its startup. It also requires access to the Embarcadero InterBase SQL database, where it keeps its system database. During the installation of Delphi, make sure to install the development version of InterBase. It comes with a special license for using it as a system database for RAD Server.

To summarize, the RAD Server support is available only in the Enterprise and Architect versions of the product, not in the Professional and Community editions.

The source code of the demos in this chapter can be found on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Expert-Delphi_Second-edition