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Expert Delphi

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460165
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Preface 1. Fasten Your Seat Belts FREE CHAPTER 2. Mind Your Language 3. Packing Up Your Toolbox 4. Playing with FireMonkey 5. FireMonkey in 3D 6. Building User Interfaces with Style 7. Working with Mobile Operating System 8. Extending to the Internet of Things 9. Embedding Databases 10. Integrating with Web Services 11. Building Mobile Backends 12. App Deployment 13. The Road Ahead

Integrating with the cloud

Integrating with cloud services can be understood in different ways. It could mean to integrate with any remote service. It is a very broad term. There are different cloud web service providers that offer all kinds of services. The main players in this arena are Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Services, and Microsoft with their Azure Cloud. There are also other vendors, but not as big as the top ones. Cloud services are typically accessible using the HTTPS protocol and as such they are just regular web services.

Delphi comes with the Cloud API framework for accessing different cloud services. On top of abstract types and classes that are common for any cloud service defined in the Data.Cloud.CloudAPI unit, there are two specialized units with types and classes specific for working with selected services available from Amazon and Azure declared in...

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