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Expert Delphi

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805121107

Length 424 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Delphi

Tools

FireMonkey

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Marco Cantù

Paweł Głowacki

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Fasten Your Seat Belts

3. Chapter 2: Mind Your Language

4. Chapter 3: Packing Up Your Toolbox

5. Chapter 4: Using the Parallel Programming Library

6. Part 2: Going Mobile

7. Chapter 5: Playing with FireMonkey

8. Chapter 6: FireMonkey in 3D

9. Chapter 7: Building User Interfaces with Style

10. Chapter 8: Working with Mobile Operating Systems

11. Chapter 9: Desktop Apps and Mobile Bridges

12. Part 3: From Data to Services

13. Chapter 10: Embedding Databases

14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Web Services

15. Chapter 12: Building Mobile Backends

16. Chapter 13: Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server

17. Chapter 14: App Deployment

18. Chapter 15: The Road Ahead

19. Index

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

FireMonkey in 3D

FireMonkey user interface controls offer a powerful multi-platform and multi-device development solution based on a single source code, with Delphi offering you the ability to build a native app for each target operating system. There are other solutions in this space, some of them more popular, even if not as powerful. What is unique to Delphi is having a component library, similar to the 2D one, for 3D programming. With FireMonkey, we can create fully cross-platform GPU-powered GUIs, based on a specific 3D API on each platform.

In this chapter, we are going to add the third dimension to our FireMonkey projects. We will cover the following points:

Cross-platform 3D rendering
Direct use of Context3D
Ready-to-use 3D objects
Mixing 3D and 2D

The objective of this chapter is to learn FireMonkey 3D programming and how to build interactive cross-platform 3D GUIs. As usual, we’ll do this by going over demos – showcasing different...

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Authors (2)

Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.

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Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.

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