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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Summary

Building graphical user interfaces with Delphi and the FireMonkey library requires understanding the concept of a style. Styles in FireMonkey user interface design play a similar role to cascading style sheets in web development.

Every FireMonkey app uses a style. This could be a built-in style or a custom style loaded from the TStylebook component or from an embedded resource. The integrated FireMonkey Style Designer let us modify existing styles as easily as designing a form.

We have learnt a lot about building user interfaces with FireMonkey. In the next chapter, we will delve more deeply into the rich world of different frameworks available on the iOS and Android operating systems, and how FireMonkey helps us write cross-platform code that abstracts away the differences between different APIs.

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