Delphi Cookbook

50 hands-on recipes to master the power of Delphi for cross-platform and mobile development on Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS

About 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.

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Delphi Basics
Chapter 2: Become a Delphi Language Ninja
Chapter 3: Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey
Chapter 4: The Thousand Faces of Multithreading
Chapter 5: Putting Delphi on the Server
Chapter 6: Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey
Chapter 7: Using Specific Platform Features