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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

Fasten Your Seat Belts

The key benefit of Delphi in mobile development is that you can design your app once and you can natively compile it for both Android and iOS from the same source code. This chapter is exactly about this capability. We are going to install Delphi, create a simple one-button “Hello World” app, and then run the same app on an Android phone and an iOS device.

The integrated development environment (IDE) is where the programmer spends most of their time. Learning best practices of using the IDE will pay off in the future and will increase your developer productivity. Before building apps, you need to feel comfortable working in the Delphi IDE.

The objective of this chapter is to help you install the Delphi IDE, learn basic IDE functionality, and prepare it for mobile development.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Delphi installation
  • Riding the IDE
  • Deploying to mobile devices