Review of what we have learned

Throughout this book, we have made the journey through different topics related to Delphi programming from the perspective of building mobile apps. Here, we aim to provide a brief summary while also offering references to more specialized books for further exploration of the topics covered in this book.

The main focus of Chapter 1 was to install and configure the Delphi IDE for cross-platform mobile development. That’s the single, biggest feature of Delphi cross-platform development: from one source code base, from one project, just by switching target platforms in Project Manager, you can compile your code to a binary executable for all major mobile and desktop platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you need more information about the IDE configuration, you might want to use the Delphi online documentation, at https://docwiki.embarcadero.com.

Chapter 2 was all about the Object Pascal programming language. From basic...