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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

App Deployment

Building and deploying your mobile app to your devices is just the beginning. There is a lot more to a successful app. In this chapter, we are going to focus on all of the details of app deployment. We are going to discuss adding artwork, app monetization with ads, and in-app purchases. To be successful in mobile app development, you need to constantly improve your app. For this, you need to automate as many tasks as possible for reduced development and deployment times. That is why, at the end of this chapter, the book offers some suggestions in terms of version control, testing, and continuous integration.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Deploying to app stores
  • Monetizing with ads and in-app purchases
  • Tips to automate the development process

The objective of this chapter is to learn how to successfully deploy and maintain mobile apps for iOS and Android.