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Expert Delphi

You're reading from   Expert Delphi Robust and fast cross-platform application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460165
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Preface 1. Fasten Your Seat Belts FREE CHAPTER 2. Mind Your Language 3. Packing Up Your Toolbox 4. Playing with FireMonkey 5. FireMonkey in 3D 6. Building User Interfaces with Style 7. Working with Mobile Operating System 8. Extending to the Internet of Things 9. Embedding Databases 10. Integrating with Web Services 11. Building Mobile Backends 12. App Deployment 13. The Road Ahead

Working with address book

The most valuable information in our smartphone is arguably all our contact information. Before backing up a phone to a cloud was so common, when you lost a phone or got a new one, the first thing was to find a traditional paper address book and enter all your contacts again and again.

Luckily, this is not something that we need to worry about so much today. There is cloud storage and backup, but also it is possible to write an app that could manage our address book. FireMonkey comes with the TAddressBook component that makes it easy to add, modify, delete, or just list all contacts in our device.

The TAddressBook component on the tool palette

This component is declared in the FMX.AddressBook unit and its architecture follows the FireMonkey standard pattern for implementing a cross-platform service. Under the hood, the AddressBook component is just an...

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