Reinventing your GUI, also known as mastering Firemonkey controls, shapes, and effects

As you have surely understood by now, FireMonkey is a completely new graphics library that allows a completely new way of thinking about your GUI. During my FireMonkey training, one of the first exercises that I gave to the class was: Please look for the strangest FireMonkey control in the Tool Palette. It is quite a strange exercise, but the reason for this is really important: you must realize as soon as possible that FireMonkey is not a cross-platform VCL; it is a new beast with new possibilities and new things to know. So, you have to rethink your GUI architecture because many patterns used in the last 5, 10, 15, or more years of VCL development now may be simply obsolete or are no longer the best things to do. For instance, you have to display a pie chart with some user interaction and...