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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

Playing with FireMonkey

First of all, Delphi development is great fun. The best way to learn how to build mobile apps is to start by creating a few small apps. In this chapter, we are going to build a simple Game of Memory application using primitive components such as layouts, shapes, effects, and animations. We are also going to learn how to deliver an advanced mobile user experience with touch, multi-touch, and gestures.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Drawing in code
  • Get moving with timers
  • The power of parenting
  • Touching the screen
  • Game of Memory
  • Working with images
  • Designing the user interface
  • Building the game’s main form

The objective of this chapter is to learn the basics of FireMonkey programming. To do so, we’ll build a simple but complete game in the last part of this chapter.