My "Delphi Cookbook" has been published

Almost an year ago I started to write a book about Delphi for Packt Publishing. Today that book has been published.

This book is a cookbook! That’s it, in 328 pages you will find useful (I hope) “recipes” for your day-by-day Delphi job.

Topics of the book

• [Create visually stunning applications using FireMonkey]{style=“font-size: 13px;”}
• [Effectively use LiveBindings with the right OOP approach]{style=“font-size: 13px;”}
• [Create server-side programs to serve RESTful web services and provide data to your mobile apps]{style=“font-size: 13px;”}
• [Develop mobile apps for Android and iOS using well-defined GUI design patterns for a great user experience]{style=“font-size: 13px;”}
• [Build efficient mobile apps that read data from a remote server]{style=“font-size: 13px;”}
• [Call the platform-native API on Android and iOS even for an unpublished API]{style=“font-size: 13px;”}
• [Use extended RTTI to better manage the software customization for your customer]{style=“font-size: 13px;”}
• [Leverage the most popular design patterns for a better design without wasting too much time debugging]{style=“font-size: 13px;”}

It is not an introductory book, you will not find any “Introduction to the Object Pascal language”, however the majority of the chapters are not too complex and can be grasped also by the new Delphi programmers.

The book is available for sale on the editor website and on Amazon.

Official book page at PacktPub

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/delphi-cookbook

Book at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Delphi-XE6-Cookbook-Daniele-Teti/dp/1783559586

– Table of Contents –

Chapter 1: Delphi Basics

Changing your application’s look and feel with VCL styles and no code

Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime

Customizing TDBGrid

Using the owner’s draw combos and listboxes

Creating a stack of embedded forms

Manipulating JSON

Manipulating and transforming XML documents

I/O in the twenty-first century – knowing streams

Putting your VCL application in the tray

Creating a Windows service

Associating a file extension with your application on Windows

Chapter 2: Become a Delphi Language Ninja

Fun with anonymous methods – using higher-order functions

Writing enumerable types

RTTI to the rescue – configuring your class at runtime

Duck typing using RTTI

Creating helpers for your classes

Checking strings with regular expressions

Chapter 3: Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey

Giving a new appearance to the standard FireMonkey

controls using styles

Creating a styled TListBox

Impressing your clients with animations

Using master/details with LiveBindings

Showing complex vector shapes using paths

Using FireMonkey in a VCL application

Chapter 4: The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor

Talking with the main thread using a thread-safe queue

Synchronizing multiple threads using TEvent

Displaying a measure on a 2D graph like an oscilloscope

Chapter 5: Putting Delphi on the Server

Web client JavaScript application with WebBroker on the server

Converting a console service application to a Windows service

Serializing a dataset to JSON and back

Serializing objects to JSON and back using RTTI

Sending a POST HTTP request encoding parameters

Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker

Controlling remote applications using UDP

Using App Tethering to create a companion app

Creating DataSnap Apache modules

Chapter 6: Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey

Taking a photo, applying effects, and sharing it

Using listview to show and search local data

Do not block the main thread!

Using SQLite databases to handle a to-do list

Using a styled TListView to handle a long list of data

Taking a photo and location and sending it to a server continuously

Talking to the backend

Making a phone call from your app!

Tracking the application’s life cycle

Chapter 7: Using Specific Platform Features

Using Android SDK Java classes

Using iOS Objective-C SDK classes

Displaying PDF files in your app

Sending Android intents

Letting your phone talk – using the Android TextToSpeech engine

I hope you enjoy the reading!

–Daniele