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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

Review of what we have learned

Throughout this book, we have made the journey through different topics related to Delphi programming from the perspective of building mobile apps. Here, we aim to provide a brief summary while also offering references to more specialized books for further exploration of the topics covered in this book.

The main focus of Chapter 1 was to install and configure the Delphi IDE for cross-platform mobile development. That’s the single, biggest feature of Delphi cross-platform development: from one source code base, from one project, just by switching target platforms in Project Manager, you can compile your code to a binary executable for all major mobile and desktop platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you need more information about the IDE configuration, you might want to use the Delphi online documentation, at https://docwiki.embarcadero.com.

Chapter 2 was all about the Object Pascal programming language. From basic...