Name: Delphi Cookbook（Second Edition）
Author: Daniele Teti
ISBN: 9781785280504

Delphi Cookbook（Second Edition）

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.

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Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Delphi Basics
Introduction
Changing your application look and feel with VCL styles and no code
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
Associating a file extension with your application on Windows
Be coherent with the Windows look and feel using TTaskDialog
Chapter 2. Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja
Introduction
Fun with anonymous methods – using higher-order functions
Writing enumerable types
RTTI to the rescue – configuring your class at runtime
Duck typing using RTTI
Creating helpers for your classes
Chapter 3. Knowing Your Friends – the Delphi RTL
Introduction
Check strings with regular expressions
Consuming RESTful services using native HTTP(S) client libraries
Cope with the encoded Internet world using System.NetEncodings
Save space using System.Zip
Decouple your code using a cross-platform publish/subscribe mechanism
Chapter 4. Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey
Introduction
Giving a new appearance to the standard FireMonkey controls using styles
Creating a styled TListBox
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
Introduction
Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor
Talking with the main thread using a thread-safe queue
Synchronizing multiple threads using TEvent
Displaying a measure on a 2D graph like an oscilloscope
Using tasks to make your customer happier
Monitoring things using futures
Parallelize using the parallel for
Chapter 6. Putting Delphi on the Server
Introduction
Developing web client JavaScript applications with WebBroker on the server
Converting a console application to a Windows service
Serializing a dataset to JSON and back
Serializing objects to JSON and back using RTTI
Sending a POST HTTP request encoding parameters
Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker
Controlling 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
Chapter 7. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey
Introduction
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 long lists of data
Customizing the TListView
Taking a photo and location and sending it to a server continuously
Talking with the backend
Making a phone call from your app!
Tracking the application s lifecycle
Chapter 8. Using Specific Platform Features
Introduction
Using Android SDK Java classes
Using iOS Objective C SDK classes
Displaying PDF files in your app
Sending Android Intents
Letting your phone talk – using the Android TextToSpeech engine
Using Java classes in Android apps with Java2OP
Doing it in the background, the right way – Android services
Index

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