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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

The Road Ahead

You have done it! You have become a developer superhero, and now you have all the necessary skills to rapidly create stunning, native mobile apps from a single code base in record time.

In this final chapter, we are going to review some of the most important mobile development trends and think about the innovative and successful mobile apps you can now build.

This short chapter will cover the following points:

  • Review of what we have learned
  • Trends in mobile development
  • Ideas for new and innovative apps for you to build

The objective of this chapter is to show you the road ahead to be successful in the world of mobile app development.