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

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Call platform native API on Android and iOS for an unpublished API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
Delphi Basics
Become a Delphi Language Ninja
Knowing your friends: the Delphi RTL
Going cross platform with FireMonkey
The thousand faces of multithreading
Put Delphi on the Server
Linux Development
Ride the mobile revolution with FireMonkey
Using specific platform features
Delphi and IoT