App tethering is the name given to a Delphi feature that provides more direct interactivity between applications of the most varied types, developed under the context of the IDE.
App Tethering is one of the features that was introduced in RAD Studio XE6. App tethering allows you to connect applications in so-called serverless mode. That is, it gives your applications the ability to interact with others running on the same machine, or on a remote machine (such as a mobile phone), without using a server, as the applications communicate directly with each other.
A Delphi application developed with app tethering support is enabled to operate on three essential points:
- The first one is the location of other applications that also use app tethering, which are operating in the same execution context, the so-called group. Specifically...