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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

Your app is in an app store now and you have become a developer who is capable of writing code once and can natively compile it for all major mobile and desktop platforms from the very same source code files. Nobody can beat your productivity.

In this chapter, we have walked through the steps necessary to prepare and publish your Delphi apps to major app stores. We came to realize that being in an app store doesn’t signify the end of your app’s life. We also introduced critical techniques you have to master to maintain your app healthy over time.

This is almost the end of the book. There is one more chapter that offers some additional guidelines on what you could focus on next after you finish reading the book.