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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 (22) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
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

Touch me


Up to this point, we were focusing on generating great graphics but with no user interaction. Great apps are all about great user experiences. In order to get some feedback from apps, users are busy touching the screen in all possible ways.

FireMonkey forms provide support for handling simple touch, multitouch, and gesture events. You can use standard and interactive gestures, such as zoom and rotation, to make your apps more dynamic and interactive.

Touch

FireMonkey forms are used for building both mobile and desktop applications. It is just a matter of changing the selected Target Platform and recompiling the project. Certain concepts exist on the desktop and do not exist on mobile platforms and vice versa. For example, on mobile devices, there is no concept of a mouse, which does exist on desktops. FireMonkey forms provide different mouse events, which, on mobile platforms, are fired in response to simple touch events. When the end user touches the screen, the OnMouseDown event...

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