Expert Delphi Robust and Fast Cross-Platform Application Development
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 beg...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing Ltd
[2024]
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| Edition: | Second edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009805127706719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Building Blocks
- Chapter1: Fasten Your Seat Belts
- Delphi installation
- Delphi versions
- Running the Delphi installer
- Installing custom components
- IDE options
- Riding the IDE
- Delphi compilers and toolchains
- The "Hello World" app
- Deploying to mobile devices
- Deploying to Android
- Deploying to iOS
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Mind Your Language
- Do you speak Object Pascal?
- Program structure
- Console application
- Building a forms application
- The Object Pascal language phrasebook
- Tokens
- Constants
- Types
- Inline variables declaration
- Sets and arrays
- Helpers
- Generics
- Anonymous code
- Operator overloading
- Runtime type information
- Custom attributes
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Packing Up Your Toolbox
- Technical requirements
- Working with files and streams
- Working with JSON
- Writing JSON
- Reading JSON
- Using the JSON wizard in Delphi 12
- Working with XML
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Using the Parallel Programming Library
- Technical requirements
- Using threads
- Access synchronization
- Calling Synchronize
- Atomic operations
- Using a critical section
- Using TMonitor
- Exploring the Parallel Programming Library
- Parallel loops
- Using tasks
- The beauty of futures
- Summary
- Part 2: Going Mobile
- Chapter 5: Playing with FireMonkey
- Technical requirements
- Drawing in code
- Get moving with timers
- Precise timing
- The power of parenting
- Shapes
- Animations
- Touching the screen
- Touch
- Gestures
- Multi-touch
- Game of Memory
- Designing the game
- Working with images
- Designing the user interface
- Aligning, anchoring, and margins
- Layouts
- Building the main form of the game
- Storing the game's configuration.
- The game's settings form
- Summary
- Chapter 6: FireMonkey in 3D
- Technical requirements
- Cross-platform 3D rendering
- Direct use of Context3D
- Using a cube component
- A custom wireframe component
- Ready-to-use 3D objects
- The Moving Earth app
- Building an interactive 3D scene
- Using 3D models
- A starfield simulation
- Mixing 3D and 2D
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Building User Interfaces with Style
- Working with built-in styles
- Adding more controls
- Adding the dials
- Using custom styles
- Embedding styles as resources
- Customizing styles
- Using frames
- Working with inherited views
- Previewing forms on devices
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Working with Mobile Operating Systems
- James Bond's toy
- What am I running on?
- The life of an app
- Sensing the world
- Using the location
- Using the orientation and motion sensors
- Taking photos
- Using share sheets
- Camera, action!
- Notify me!
- Navigating the web
- Delphi language bridges
- Vibrating on Android
- Vibrations on iOS
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Desktop Apps and Mobile Bridges
- Technical requirements
- Single source for mobile and desktop
- Using the MultiView control
- Using data grids
- Leveraging layout controls
- Flow layout
- Grid layout
- Scaled layout
- Grid panel layout
- Building desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Creating apps for macOS
- What about targeting Linux?
- App tethering
- Summary
- Part 3: From Data to Services
- Chapter 10: Embedding Databases
- Technical requirements
- Data-driven apps
- Modeling data
- Choosing a database
- Accessing databases with FireDAC
- Building a data-driven UI
- Using visual live bindings
- Fast UI prototyping
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Integrating with Web Services
- Technical requirements
- Understanding Web Services
- Building a native HTTP client.
- Consuming XML SOAP Web Services
- Integrating with REST services
- Integrating with the cloud
- The Delphi Cloud API
- Moving the ToDo List app to Azure
- Using the AWS SDK for Delphi
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Building Mobile Backends
- Technical requirements
- Delphi and multi-tier architectures
- Working at a low level with WebBroker
- Generating a standalone project
- The Standalone WebBroker server
- Adding Apache support
- Adding a client application
- Building the web module
- Creating a new ToDo item
- Reading the data and other operations
- A client for the REST API
- Do-it-yourself with DataSnap
- Building the DataSnap server
- Implementing the DataSnap server functionality
- Building a DataSnap client
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server
- Technical requirements
- RAD Server setup
- Building RAD Server resources
- The ToDo list in RAD Server
- Creating a client app for RAD Server
- Summary
- Chapter 14: App Deployment
- Technical requirements
- Deploying to app stores
- Apps artwork
- Apps orientation
- Publishing on the Apple iOS App Store
- Publishing your Android apps to the Google Play Store
- Monetizing with ads and in-app purchases
- Automate the development process
- App versioning
- Practical version control
- Sleeping well with unit testing
- Summary
- Chapter 15: The Road Ahead
- Review of what we have learned
- Trends in mobile development
- A single screen is not your limit
- Serverless backends and NoSQL databases
- The AI revolution
- Ideas for new and innovative apps for you to build
- Summary
- Index
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