Expert Delphi电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Expert Delphi

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

What this book is not about

Why Delphi?

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Fasten Your Seat Belts

Delphi installation

Delphi versions

Running the Delphi installer

Installing custom components

IDE options

Riding the Integrated Development Environment

Delphi compilers and toolchains

Hello World app

Deploying to mobile devices

Deploying to Android

Deploying to iOS

Summary

Mind Your Language

Do you speak Object Pascal?

Program structure

Console application

Forms applications

Object Pascal Phrase Book

Tokens

Constants

Types

Sets and arrays

Helpers

Generics

Anonymous code

Operator overloading

Custom attributes

Runtime Type Information

Summary

Packing Up Your Toolbox

Parallel Programming Library

Parallel loops

Tasks

Futures

Working with files

JSON

Writing JSON

Reading JSON

XML

Summary

Playing with FireMonkey

Drawing in code

Get moving with timers

Precise timing

The power of parenting

Shapes

Animations

Programmable effects

Touch me

Touch

Gestures

Multitouch

Game of Memory

Designing the game

Working with images

Designing a user interface

Aligning, anchoring, and margins

Layouts

Building the games main form

Storing the game's configuration

The game's settings form

Summary

FireMonkey in 3D

Cross-platform 3D rendering

Using Context3D

Custom Wireframe component

Objects 3D

Moving Earth

Building an interactive 3D scene

Using 3D models

Starfield simulation

Mixing 3D and 2D

Summary

Building User Interfaces with Style

Working with built-in styles

Using custom styles

Embedding styles as resources

Customizing styles

Using frames

Working with inherited views

Previewing forms on devices

Summary

Working with Mobile Operating System

James Bond's toy

What I'm running on?

The life of an app

Sensing the world

Taking photos

Using share sheets

Camera, light, action!

Working with address book

Notify me!

Navigating the web

Working with maps

Creating and consuming Android services

Delphi language bridges

Vibrating on Android

Vibrations on iOS

Summary

Extending to the Internet of Things

Communication protocols

Understanding BLE

Connecting to things with ThingConnect

Getting close with beacons

Beacons in a museum

Emulating beacons with TBeaconDevice

Proximity solutions with BeaconFence

App tethering

Summary

Embedding Databases

Architecting data-driven apps

Modeling data

Choosing a database

Accessing databases with FireDAC

Building data-driven user interface

Using visual live bindings

Fast user interface prototyping

Summary

Integrating with Web Services

Understanding web services

Native HTTP client

Consuming XML SOAP web services

Integrating with REST services

Backend as a service client

Integrating with the cloud

Moving ToDo List to Amazon S3

Summary

Building Mobile Backends

Delphi and multi-tier architectures

Getting low-level with WebBroker

Organizing your WebBroker projects

Do it yourself with DataSnap

Implementing DataSnap server functionality

Easy REST API publishing with RAD Server

RAD Server setup

Building resources

Summary

App Deployment

Deploying to App Stores

Publishing your apps to Apple iOS App Store

Publishing your Android apps to Google Play Store

Monetizing with adds and in-app purchases

Enhancing your apps

Practical version control

Planning a release

Development and refactorings

Sleeping well with unit testing

Continuous integration and deployment

Summary

The Road Ahead

What we have learned

Staying on top of everything

Apps everywhere

Serverless backends and NoSQL

Internet of all kinds of things

Your next Delphi mobile app

Summary