Part 3: From Data to Services

No app is an island. Your apps will need to store data locally, with more powerful options than using files. That’s why we start the last part of the book by looking into on-device database support. Modern applications, however, rarely need only a local database. Using web services and reaching out to cloud features is extremely common these days. Leveraging mobile backends is also critical, but with Delphi you can also build mobile backends, becoming a Delphi full-stack developer.

Throughout the last part, we’ll be building many different versions of a todo application, reusing its code, and leveraging the same abstraction layer for local databases, cloud storage, and multitier apps.

This part has the following chapters:

• Chapter 10, Embedding Databases,
• Chapter 11, Integrating with Web Services
• Chapter 12, Building Mobile Backends
• Chapter 13, Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server
• Chapter 14, App Deployment...