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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

Cross-platform 3D rendering

Abstracting away the underlying 3D API from the programmer is the foundation of the FireMonkey graphics architecture. On top of this basis there is the second pillar, rapid application development with components. The FireMonkey framework comes with pre-built, reusable 3D components that make it easy to write complex 3D applications.

In FireMonkey it is very easy to create sophisticated, GPU-powered 3D user interfaces using reusable visual components that let you focus on your business application logic instead of spending time on writing low-level 3D API code.

There are different 3D APIs available on different operating systems supported by the FireMonkey library. Standard APIs for rendering 3D graphics on mobile targets is a cut down version of the OpenGL library called OpenGL ES. On desktop targets, FireMonkey supports DirectX on Windows and full...

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