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Expert Delphi - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121107
Pages 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Marco Cantù Marco Cantù
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Blocks
2. Chapter 1: Fasten Your Seat Belts 3. Chapter 2: Mind Your Language 4. Chapter 3: Packing Up Your Toolbox 5. Chapter 4: Using the Parallel Programming Library 6. Part 2: Going Mobile
7. Chapter 5: Playing with FireMonkey 8. Chapter 6: FireMonkey in 3D 9. Chapter 7: Building User Interfaces with Style 10. Chapter 8: Working with Mobile Operating Systems 11. Chapter 9: Desktop Apps and Mobile Bridges 12. Part 3: From Data to Services
13. Chapter 10: Embedding Databases 14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Web Services 15. Chapter 12: Building Mobile Backends 16. Chapter 13: Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server 17. Chapter 14: App Deployment 18. Chapter 15: The Road Ahead 19. Index
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Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how to work with different platform functionalities provided by the two mobile operating systems, Android and iOS. While the two are quite different, most of the core concepts are the same. We can use high-level components in the FireMonkey library and their cross-platform abstractions. This way, we can just recompile our projects for both OSs with the same source code.

Toward the end of the chapter, we also explored what you need to do to call platform APIs not wrapped by the FireMonkey library. This is significantly more work, but it’s important to realize that it is possible, unlike in cross-platform mobile development tools, which offer a defined set of features without the ability to add others.

While the focus on mobile is particularly relevant, in the next chapter, we’ll spend a little time focusing on desktop, as FireMonkey also supports Windows, macOS, and even Linux (via an add-on library). We’ll cover some...

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