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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

Introduction


There are situations where if you need a particular Android or iOS feature, FireMonkey doesn't help you. FireMonkey does a very good job in supporting all the common mobile features, but it is still relatively young. This means that not all the APIs have been already imported, polished, and wrapped in nice Object Pascal reusable classes or components. So, what can you do in such cases? The good news is that you can import classes from the underlying SDK (and NDK, in case of Android) and wrap them just like Embarcadero does on the FireMonkey platform.

In this chapter, we'll see some classes import examples. Keep in mind that the code using imported classes is not cross platform. That is, if you import an Android SDK class and your code uses it, you lose the possibility to compile that specific code for iOS. However, you can, as usual, use some IFDEFs to statically select the Android-specific code from the iOS-specific code.

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