Delphi cookbook : recipes to help master Delphi for IoT integrations, cross-platform, mobile and server-side development / Daniele Spinetti, Daniele Teti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spinetti, Daniele, author.

Teti, Daniele, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delphi (Computer file).

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Client/server computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (659 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Spinetti Daniele: Daniele Spinetti is a software architect living in Rome. He is an Embarcadero MVP. Delphi/Object Pascal is his favorite tool/programming language, and he is a lead and active member of several projects in the open source community. In his tutoring activities (conferences and training), he likes to talk about innovative topics in software architectures. He's a huge fan of design patterns and TDD. Teti Daniele: Daniele Teti is a software architect, trainer, and consultant with over 20 years of experience. He drives the development of the most popular Delphi open source project on GitHubDelphiMVCFramework. He's also a huge fan of design patterns, machine learning, and AI. Daniele is the CEO of BIT Time Professionals, an Italian company specializing in high-level consultancy, training, development, and machine learning systems.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Delphi Basics

Introduction

Changing your application's look and feel with VCL styles

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime

Customizing TDBGrid

Using owner-draw combos and listboxes

Making an owner-draw control aware of the VCL styles

Creating a stack of embedded forms

Manipulating JSON

Manipulating and transforming XML documents

I/O in the 21st century - knowing the streams

Creating a Windows Service

Using the TService.LogMessage method

Associating a file extension with your application on Windows

Be coherent with the Windows look and feel using TTaskDialog

Getting started

The amazing TFDTable - indices, aggregations, views, and SQL

ETL made easy - TFDBatchMode

Data integration made easy - TFDLocalSQL

There's more.

See also

Chapter 2: Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja

Fun with anonymous methods - using higher-order functions

Writing enumerable types

See also

Using enumerable types to create new language features

RTTI to the rescue - configuring your class at runtime

Duck typing using RTTI

BOs validation using RTTI attributes

Bonus recipe - Validation using RTTI attributes

See also...

Creating helpers for your classes

Chapter 3: Knowing Your Friends - The Delphi RTL

Checking strings with regular expressions

Consuming RESTful services using native HTTP(S) client libraries

Some HTTP considerations

THTTPClient's methods which directly map HTTP verbs

How to verify that HTTP TRACE is disabled

Coping with the encoded internet world using System.NetEncodings

Saving space using System.Zip

Decoupling your code using a cross-platform publish/subscribe mechanism

Getting ready...

Chapter 4: Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey

Giving a new appearance to the standard FireMonkey controls using styles

Creating a styled TListBox.

Getting ready

Impressing your clients with animations

Using master/details with LiveBindings

Showing complex vector shapes using paths

Using FireMonkey in a VCL application

Reinventing your GUI, also known as mastering Firemonkey controls, shapes, and effects

Chapter 5: The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor

Talking with the main thread using a thread-safe queue

Synchronizing multiple threads using TEvent

Bonus recipe - AsyncTaskTests

Communication made easy with Delphi Event Bus

Displaying a measure on a 2D graph like an oscilloscope

Using the Parallel Programming Library in the real world: Tasks

Using the Parallel Programming Library in the real world: Futures

Using the Parallel Programming Library in the real world: Parallel For/Join

Chapter 6: Putting Delphi on the Server

Developing web client JavaScript applications with WebBroker on the server

Getting ready.

How it works...

Retrieving the people list

Creating or updating a person

Running the application

Converting a console application into a Windows service

Serializing a dataset to JSON and back

Serializing objects to JSON and back using RTTI

Sending a POST HTTP request for encoding parameters

Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker

Controlling the remote application using UDP

Using app tethering to create a companion app

Creating DataSnap Apache modules

Creating WebBroker Apache modules

Using native HTTP(S) client libraries

Logging like a pro using LoggerPro

Chapter 7: Linux Development

Creating Linux TCP/IP servers

How to correctly handle Linux signals

How to build a modern Linux daemon

systemd

Building a TCP/IP Linux server and daemonizing it

How to do it...

Building a RESTFul server for Linux

Building a complete RESTful server with database access and web client interface

Creating WebBroker Apache modules for Linux

Chapter 8: Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey

Taking a photo, applying effects, and sharing it

Using TListView to show and search local data

Using SQLite databases to handle a to-do list

Do not block the main thread!

Using a styled TListView to handle a long list of data

Customizing the TListView

How it works

Taking a photo and location and sending it to a server continuously

The client side

The server side

Talking with the backend

Making a phone call from your app

Tracking the application's life cycle

Building your own SMS sending service with the REST API

REST server

Mobile sending application

Chapter 9: Using specific platform features

Introduction.

Using Android SDK Java classes.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781788623186

1788623185

OCLC:

1048785778