Navigating the web

The debate about whether natively compiled or JavaScript-based web mobile apps are better seems to be over. Native mobile apps such as those built with Delphi, C++Builder, or Xcode are the most common choice for developers. However, sometimes it makes a lot of sense to combine these two different worlds and create a hybrid solution where an app is still native, but also embeds a web browser.

Luckily in FireMonkey, there is a special TWebBrowser component that makes it easy to embed web-browsing functionality in your app:

1. Create a blank multi-device application. Save the form as uFormWebBrowser and the project as WebBrowserApp.
2. Drop a toolbar component on the form. Drop a TEdit component on the toolbar and rename it to EdtURL. It will contain a URL for the web browser component to navigate to. For convenience, you can already put a valid URL into the Text property of the edit, so it is faster at runtime to check that our app is working correctly. This...