Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition: Recipes to master Delphi for IoT integrations, cross-platform, mobile and server-side development - Softcover

Spinetti, Daniele; Teti, Daniele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788621301 ISBN 13: 9781788621304

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Quickly learn and employ practical recipes for developing real-world, cross-platform applications using Delphi.

Key Features

• Get to grips with Delphi to build and deploy various cross-platform applications
• Design and deploy real-world apps by implementing a single source codebase
• Build robust and optimized GUI applications with ease

Book Description

Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities.

Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You'll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you'll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You'll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT).

By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT.

What you will learn

• Develop visually stunning applications using FireMonkey
• Deploy LiveBinding effectively with the right object-oriented programming (OOP) approach
• Create RESTful web services that run on Linux or Windows
• Build mobile apps that read data from a remote server efficiently
• Call platform native API on Android and iOS for an unpublished API
• Manage software customization by making better use of an extended RTTI
• Integrate your application with IOT

Who this book is for

Delphi Cookbook is for intermediate developers with a basic knowledge of Delphi who want to discover and understand all the development possibilities offered by it.

Table of Contents

1. Delphi Basics
2. Become a Delphi Language Ninja
3. Knowing your friends: the Delphi RTL
4. Going cross platform with FireMonkey
5. The thousand faces of multithreading
6. Put Delphi on the Server
7. Linux Development
8. Ride the mobile revolution with FireMonkey
9. Using specific platform features
10. Delphi and IoT

About this title

About the Author

Daniele Spinetti is a software architect living in Rome. He is an Embarcadero MVP. Delphi/Object Pascal is his favorite tool/programming language, and he is a lead and active member of several projects in the open source community. In his tutoring activities (conferences and training), he likes to talk about innovative topics in software architectures. He's a huge fan of design patterns and TDD.

Daniele Teti is a software architect, trainer, and consultant with over 20 years of experience. He drives the development of the most popular Delphi open source project on GitHub-DelphiMVCFramework. He's also a huge fan of design patterns, machine learning, and AI. Daniele is the CEO of BIT Time Professionals, an Italian company specializing in high-level consultancy, training, development, and machine learning systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1788621301
• ISBN 13: 9781788621304
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 668