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Delphi Cookbook

You're reading from   Delphi Cookbook 50 hands-on recipes to master the power of Delphi for cross-platform and mobile development on Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783559589
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniele Teti Daniele Teti
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Delphi Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Become a Delphi Language Ninja 3. Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey 4. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading 5. Putting Delphi on the Server 6. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey 7. Using Specific Platform Features Index

Talking to the backend


This recipe will introduce you to the real-world business mobile apps and their related application servers. It is not a simple world. It is full of well-known traps and full of specific traps related to your infrastructure, your business logic, your application transactions, and so on. Just to be clear, you have to take care of your design and the way you implement this design in a much more extent compared to a classic client/server application. On going deeper into the mobile programming (and in general, in all asynchronous scenarios), you will see that things become harder than usual. In the mobile world, things can get messy really fast and your customers will complain even faster. Be warned!

This recipe is a mobile client for the People Manager application server developed in the Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker recipe in Chapter 5, Putting Delphi on the Server.

Getting ready

As already mentioned, this recipe is composed by the application server...

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