50 hands-on recipes to master the power of Delphi for cross-platform and mobile development on Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOSAbout This Book
- Increase your Delphi productivity with this accessible and swift guide
- Explore vital and powerful features while developing mobile applications using Delphi
- Full of recipes and solutions identified from the everyday challenges faced by the author in his many years as a consultant
Who This Book Is For
Intended to refresh the basics of Delphi as well as advance your knowledge to the next level, it is assumed you will know RAD studio and the Object Pascal language. However, if you are not an experienced RAD studio programmer this accessible guide will still develop those initial crucial skills.
What You Will Learn
- Create visually stunning applications using FireMonkey
- Effectively use LiveBindings with the right OOP approach
- Create server-side programs to serve RESTful web services and provide data to your mobile apps
- Develop mobile apps using well-defined GUI design patterns for a great user experience
- Build efficient mobile apps that read data from a remote server
- Call the platform-native API on Android and iOS even for an unpublished API
- Use extended RTTI to better manage the software customization for your customer
- Leverage the most popular design patterns for a better design without wasting too much time debugging
In Detail
With this book, you will gain valuable and practical knowledge of the latest functionalities of Delphi. Starting with the foundations, you will work on your VCL application, customize the TDBGrid, and configure your runtime class using RTTI. Going forward, you will build on this foundation and deploy FireMonkey to go cross-platform or even call FireMonkey from a VCL project, and you will fully understand how you can include Delphi on your server. Finally, you will use App Tethering, call Android and iOS SDK classes, and even use the Android TextToSpeech engine to add sounds to your phone! With this learning resource at your side, you will acquire all that a RAD Studio developer needs to know about Delphi in one complete, informative guide.
Daniele Teti
Daniele Teti is a software architect, trainer, and consultant with over 18 years of professional experience. He writes code in a number of languages but his preferred language to compile native software is Object Pascal. Daniele is a well-known Delphi and programming expert in the developer community. He's the main developer and drives the development of some Delphi open source projects (DelphiMVCFramework; DORM, "the Delphi ORM"; Delphi Redis Client; and so on). He wrote his first program when he was 11 years old, and since then, he happily continues to write software almost every day. Apart from Delphi, he's a huge fan of design patterns, expert systems, RESTful architectures, and Android OS. When he is not busy writing software or programming (as his job or hobby), he likes to play the guitar, write songs, and do voluntary activities. Currently, he works as an R&D Director & Educational at bit Time Software (www.bittime.it), an Italian representative of Embarcadero Technologies (www.embarcadero.com). He recently became the CEO of bit Time Professionals, which is a spin-off company of bit Time Software; this company specializes in consultancy, training, and development. Being a software architect, consultant, and teacher for many Italian and European companies, he travels very often around the world. He is the Technical Director of ITDevCon, the biggest European Delphi conference (www.itdevcon.it). He's also an international speaker at many technical conferences. Daniele lives in Rome, Italy (where each photographer becomes an artist) with his beloved wife, Debora, and their little boy, Mattia.
