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Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

You're reading from   Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi Expand your Delphi skills to build a new generation of Windows, web, mobile, and IoT applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203822
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Cornelius David Cornelius
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Programming Power
2. Chapter 1: Recent IDE Enhancements FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Delphi Project Management 4. Chapter 3: A Modern-Day Language 5. Section 2: Cross-Platform Power
6. Chapter 4: Multiple Platforms, One Code Base 7. Chapter 5: Libraries, Packages, and Components 8. Chapter 6: All About LiveBindings 9. Chapter 7: FireMonkey Styles 10. Chapter 8: Exploring the World of 3D 11. Section 3: Mobile Power
12. Chapter 9: Mobile Data Storage 13. Chapter 10: Cameras, the GPS, and More 14. Chapter 11: Extending Delphi with Bluetooth, IoT, and Raspberry Pi 15. Section 4: Server Power
16. Chapter 12: Console-Based Server Apps and Services 17. Chapter 13: Web Modules for IIS and Apache 18. Chapter 14: Using the RAD Server 19. Chapter 15: Deploying an Application Suite 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with various screen sizes

The first thing you probably noticed when working with the ClientList app we used in the previous section is that Delphi's design-time view shows a master list of people on the left and a Detail view of a single person on the right. This is the standard desktop interface and was how both the Windows and Mac desktop applications looked. However, when we deploy the app to a mobile device in portrait mode, the master list disappears and all you see is a button at the upper left of the screen that, when clicked, reveals the master list in a slide-out list over the detail, allowing you to scroll and select a different person, after which it hides again.

How does the app look and behave differently on a smaller screen?

Exploring target views

Before I answer that, look at the right side of the toolbar at top of the design view for the ClientList project. There's a combo box labeled View, and if you drop down the list, you'll see the...

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