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1 Contents - 5 Contents Preface...3 Acknowledgments...4 Contents...5 List of Figures...17 Introduction...23 History of Delphi...24 Delphi for mobile platforms...27 About this book...27 About the author...29 Part I: The mobile ecosystem...31 Chapter 1: Mobile devices hardware...33 Core components...34 Processors and graphics units...35 Mobile SoCs...36 Mobile CPU cores...38 Graphics Processing Units...39 Memory...39

2 6 - Contents Storage...40 Battery...42 User interaction components...44 Touch screen...44 Display...44 Other layers...46 Keyboard...47 Mic/Speaker...48 Other interaction components...49 Sensors and other components...50 Accelerometer and gyroscope...50 Magnetometer (Compass)...51 Positioning components...52 Communication components...53 Miscellaneous...54 Conclusions...55 What's next...56 Chapter 2: Software platforms for mobile devices...58 Smartphones' software platform structure...59 A low-level RTOS...60 A high-level OS...61 Mobile operating systems history...62 The early days...62 Today's major platforms...65 ios...65 Android...67 Windows Phone...68 Other mobile operating systems...70 Conclusions...72 What's next...72 Chapter 3: Development solutions overview...73 The three main development strategies...74 Mobile Web applications...75 Advantages...76 Disadvantages...77 Languages and tools...78 Design languages...78 Programming languages...80 API and libraries...81 Development tools...82 Hybrid mobile applications...84

3 Contents - 7 Advantages...85 Disadvantages...86 Languages and tools...86 Native mobile applications...88 Advantages...89 Disadvantages...89 Languages and tools...90 Where does Delphi fit?...93 Conclusions...95 What's next...95 Part II: Mobile development with Delphi...96 Chapter 4: Delphi, SDKs and tools installation...98 Delphi installation...99 Product editions and characteristics...99 System requirements Hardware requirements Software requirements Installation process Updating the Delphi installation Installation maintenance Android development tools configuration Managing Android SDK versions Managing Android virtual devices Physical devices configuration ios development tools configuration Installing Xcode Folder sharing configuration PAServer installation PAServer Manager (Delphi XE7) Conclusions What's next Chapter 5: Introducing the Delphi working environment MyMunchies sample application Main IDE components IDE layout customization IDE Insight Starting a new project Delphi XE7 multi-device projects Selecting a template for MyMunchies...140

4 8 - Contents User interface design fundamentals Choosing among designer views Styles and views in Delphi XE Interface style while designing Master view and specific views for each platform Working methodology using XE7 views Editing the components properties Adding new components to the interface Removing components MyMunchies user interface A title for each page Configuring the lists of products Adding the list of selected items Writing some code Code, components and events Managing events through the Object Inspector Code editing Code provided by the project template Managing the targets Platform properties and configuration Adding a new platform Managing platforms in Delphi XE Running and debugging the application Debugging tools Breakpoints Process state Watching variables contents Stepping through the code Project deployment to mobile devices Deployment to an Android device Deployment to an ios device Connection configuration How to change a connection Conclusions What's next Chapter 6: Mobile project templates Starting from scratch A form with header and footer Navigation elements A form with several pages A master/detail form An interface optimized for tablets The Delphi XE7 Master-Detail application template...203

5 Contents - 9 The TMultiView component A form for 3D applications Conclusions What's next Chapter 7: Common tasks User interface navigation The TActionList component The ActionList editor Standard actions How to implement a Tab navigation system Devices with hardware back button User-defined actions Gesture-based navigation Standard gestures vs interactive gestures The TGestureManager component Touch target expansion Navigation through standard gestures Managing interactive gestures Interactive gesture identification Interactive gestures in practice Updating Content through gestures (pull-to-refresh) Application lifetime changes Screen orientation changes Configuring the project for specific screen orientations Reacting to screen orientation changes Application state changes How to register for application state events Life cycle events of mobile applications Handling application state events in practice Saving and loading data Where to store application data Saving and loading text data Dealing with configuration parameters Loading graphic files Deploying additional files into the data directory Saving and loading state information with Delphi XE The OnSaveState event Transiently storing state data Persistently storing state data The TMultiView component (XE7) TMultiView as a generic container Presentation mode Configuring the static panel...259

6 10 - Contents Configuring the sliding panel Configuring the floating panel Linking the master and detail panels Conclusions What's next Chapter 8: Introducing the Delphi language Basic syntax Delphi code modules Structure of the program code module Structure of a standard code module Module references Comments Essential data types Integer and floating point numbers Characters and character strings Other basic data types Notation for literals and identifier naming Enumerations Scoped enumerations Subranges Arrays Static arrays declaration Arrays with non-numeric indexes Managing dynamic arrays Records Sets Expressions Arithmetic, relational, and logical expressions Set expressions Pointer expressions Other expression types Statements Conditional statements Iterative statements Procedures and functions Parameters by value and by reference Parameters with default values Arrays as parameters to methods Structured exception handling Other statements Classes and their members How to define a new class Class members visibility...308

7 Contents - 11 Object construction The TCollectible class Attributes declaration Private methods declaration Constructor declaration Public properties' declaration Implementation of methods The TComputer class Class members and the self object The TCollection class Anonymous methods Anonymous method use scenario Anonymous method type definition How to pass anonymous methods as arguments Generic types How to define a generic type Generic types instantiation and use Code writing aids Code templates Code formatting Code navigation Code refactoring Managing code versions Conclusions What's next Chapter 9: The FMX component library Why FMX? FMX and graphic hardware FMX user interface styles FMX controls common aspects Placing controls Control sizing and alignment Padding and margins User interface layout example In FMX everything is a container Nested components Child coordinates and parent boundaries (clipping) Appearance properties Visual styles Predefined styles and tint properties How a FMX style is built Visual style files Loading visual style files at design time...360

8 12 - Contents The visual style designer Changing the form's visual style at run time Conclusions What's next Chapter 10: Animations, transformations and visual effects Animations Animation categories Defining an animation How to configure the animation Managing the animation process Rotating and scaling controls Animations and transformations in practice User interface composition Configuring the watch hands animation Configuring the button animation Modifying the scale of the user interface Rotating the whole user interface Visual effects and filters The TEffect class and its descendants How to configure a visual effect Visual effects in practice Conclusions What's next Chapter 11: Introducing 3D user interfaces How a 3D interface is structured Three-dimensional objects How to configure a 3D object How to define new 3D objects Materials Lights Cameras D objects in a 3D world Conclusions What's next Part III: Mobile programming techniques Chapter 12: Motion sensors FMX components for accessing motion sensors...424

9 Contents - 13 Motion sensors Motion sensor types and associated classes Selection of the sensor to read Sensor state Reading data from the sensor Properties holding motion data Data reading process Orientation sensors Orientation sensor types and associated properties Configuration and data retrieving from the sensor How to use motion sensors in practice User interface design Retrieving the sensor list How to select the sensor to use Reading process activation Reading data Compilation and execution Conclusions What's next Chapter 13: Geolocation information The TLocationSensor component Location sensor availability Sensor configuration Reading location data Retrieving other data from the GPS Regions configuration (ios) Location encoding and decoding Geocoder object initialization Retrieving an address coordinates Obtaining an address from coordinates Map visualization The TWebBrowser component How to put together a URL for accessing Google Maps and Bing Maps Location information in practice User interface design Additional members declaration Sensor activation and deactivation Location changes Descriptive location information Conclusions What's next...477

10 14 - Contents Chapter 14: Using the integrated cameras Components for the use of audiovisual media Retrieving pictures from the camera Detecting the camera and its functionality Selecting the camera to use Setting the camera configuration Capturing pictures The TCameraComponent in practice User interface design Camera initialization Changing the active camera Configuration changes Visualizing the captured pictures Storing the pictures in files Standard actions and the camera Obtaining a picture from the camera Obtaining a picture from the photo library How to share data with other applications Using actions in practice Capturing audio and video sequences Playing audio and video sequences Conclusions What's next Chapter 15: Linking mobile and desktop applications Introducing the app tethering technique How to connect applications Automatic connection Manual connection Application discovery Manual pairing Application profiles discovery Discovery and pairing in practice Designing the managers application Designing the customers application Verifying connectivity Sending and receiving data Shared resources Creating the shared resource Setting the resource content Accessing a shared resource How to subscribe to changes in a shared resource Temporary resources...529

11 Contents - 15 Publishing and requesting actions Remote actions definition How to invoke a remote action App tethering and Delphi XE Discovering applications outside the own subnet Bluetooth connections Bluetooth communication services Classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE Operation scheme Permission configuration The Bluetooth communication manager Building a basic testing user interface Making the application visible to other devices Searching for other devices Managing the pairing process Connecting and transferring data The TBluetoothLE component Conclusions What's next Chapter 16: Notifications and advertising Using notifications How to define a notification Immediate notifications Scheduled notifications Canceling notifications Advertising Advertising and mobile applications The Google AdMob program How to obtain an Ad ID for our application The Apple iad program How to add advertising banners to our applications Specific configuration for Android Changing from AdMob API to Google Mobile Ads API Specific configuration for ios Conclusions Index...571

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