Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

Over 60 hands-on recipes to help you master the power of Delphi for cross-platform and mobile development on multiple platformsAbout This BookGet to grips with Delphi to build and deploy various cross-platform applicationsDesign, develop, and deploy real-world applications by implementing a single source codebaseThis swift guide will increase your productivity to develop applications with DelphiWho This Book Is ForIf you are an intermediate developer with a basic knowledge of Delphi and you want to develop cross-platform applications, then this book is for you. Familiarity with the fundamentals of RAD (Rapid Application Development) Studio is expected.What You Will LearnDevelop visually stunning applications using FireMonkeyDeploy LiveBinding effectively with the right OOP approachCreate server-side programs to serve RESTful web services and provide data to your mobile appsUse well-defined GUI design patterns to build mobile applications that provide a great user experienceBuild mobile apps that read data from a remote server efficientlyCall the platform native API on Android and iOS even for an unpublished APIManage software customization for your customer by making better use of an extended RTTIImplement the most popular design pattern without wasting too much time on debugging and bug fixingIn DetailDelphi is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Google Android, and Apple iOS. It helps you to concentrate on the real business and save yourself the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details, or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. It also has a wide range of drag-and-drop controls, helping you code your business logic into your business model, and it compiles natively for desktop and mobile platforms.This book will teach you how to design and develop applications, deploy them on the cloud platform, and distribute them within an organization via Google Play and other similar platforms.You will begin with the basics of Delphi and get acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, unicode encodings and various types of streams. We then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and RTTI. You will get an understanding of how Delphi RTL functions and how to use FireMonkey in a VCL application. We will then cover topics such as multithreading, using the parallel programming library and putting Delphi on a server. We will also take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules and then ride the mobile revolution with FireMonkey.By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and deploy cross-platform applications using Delphi.Style and approachDelphi Cookbook is an easy-to-follow guide, rich with hands-on examples of real-world programming tasks in Delphi.