Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition - Teti, Daniele

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Résumé :
Over 60 hands-on recipes to help you master the power of Delphi for cross-platform and mobile development on multiple platforms Key Features:Get to grips with Delphi to build and deploy various cross-platform applications Design, develop, and deploy real-world applications by implementing a single source codebase This swift guide will increase your productivity to develop applications with Delphi Book Description: Delphi 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. What You Will Learn:Develop visually stunning applications using FireMonkey Deploy LiveBinding effectively with the right OOP approach Create server-side programs to serve RESTful web services and provide data to your mobile apps Use well-defined GUI design patterns to build mobile applications that provide a great user experience Build mobile apps that read data from a remote server efficiently Call the platform native API on Android and iOS even for an unpublished API Manage software customization for your customer by making better use of an extended RTTI Implement the most popular design pattern without wasting too much time on debugging and bug fixing Who this book is for: If 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.

Biographie:
Daniele Teti is a software architect, trainer, and consultant with over 20 years of professional experience. He writes code in a number of languages but his preferred language for compiled native software, is Object Pascal. Daniele is an Embarcadero MVP and is a well known Delphi and programming expert in the developers' community. He's the main developer and drives the development of some Delphi open source projects (DelphiMVCFramework, LoggerPro, DORM-The Delphi ORM, Delphi Redis Client, Delphi STOMP Client, and so on). After writing some articles for the most important programming magazines in Italy and a number of on-line publications, Daniele started to write books. His Delphi Cookbook, published in late 2014, has been a bestseller. Daniele wrote his first program when he was 11 year old, and since then happily continues to write software almost every day. Apart from Delphi, he's a huge fan of design patterns, open source, distributed architectures, RESTful architectures, and Android OS. Daniele has been the project manager for a lot of big projects in Italy and in Europe, for private companies and public institutions. When is not busy writing software or writing about programming (for a job or for a hobby), he like to play guitar, write songs, and do voluntary activities. Currently he is CEO of BIT Time Professionals, an Italian company specializing in high level consultancy, training, and development. The company specializes in high performance software, web and mobile solutions, and distributed architecture. Bit Time Professionals is also an Italian leader about indoor proximity solutions using beacon technology, where it provides solutions for museums, supermarkets, art galleries, fairs, and events in general. Daniele acts as a consultant and teacher for many Italian and European companies, so he travels very often around the world. Daniele is the technical director for the ITDevCon conference, the biggest European Delphi conference (www.itdevcon.it). He's also an international speaker at technical conferences. Daniele lives in Rome, Italy, with his beloved wife Debora and their little boy Mattia.

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