Delphi Cookbook

Delphiisacross-platformintegrateddevelopmentenvironment(IDE)thatsupportsrapidapplicationdevelopmentondifferentplatforms,savingyouthepainofwanderingamidGUIwidgetdetailsorhavingtotackleinter-platformincompatibilities.DelphiCookbookbeginswiththebasicsofDelphiandgetsyouacquaintedwithJSONformatstrings,XSLTtransformations,Unicodeencodings,andvarioustypesofstreams.You’llthenmoveontomoreadvancedtopicssuchasdevelopinghigher-orderfunctionsandusingenumeratorsandrun-timetypeinformation(RTTI).Asyoumakeyourwaythroughthechapters,you’llunderstandDelphiRTLfunctions,useFireMonkeyinaVCLapplication,andcovertopicssuchasmultithreading,usingaparallelprogramminglibraryanddeployingDelphionaserver.You’lltakealookatthenewfeatureofWebBrokerApachemodules,jointhemobilerevolutionwithFireMonkey,andlearntobuilddata-drivenmobileuserinterfacesusingtheFireDACdatabaseaccessframework.ThisbookwillalsoshowyouhowtointegrateyourappswithInternetofThings(IoT).Bytheendofthebook,youwillhavebecomeproficientinDelphibyexploringitsdifferentaspectssuchasbuildingcross-platformsandmobileapplications,designingserver-sideprograms,andintegratingtheseprogramswithIoT.