Welcome to the first chapter of this book! We are at the beginning of a journey to gain knowledge about a great application framework, that is, the FireMonkey (FMX) framework. These days, developers face a hard-to-solve problem—building effective cross-platform applications. From a project management point of view, one of the most wanted features is to achieve this goal through a single source code base, not, for example, having a different code base for each supported platform.
The introduction of the FireMonkey framework represented a crucial point, putting Embarcadero Delphi in a magic spot in the global software development scenario. Developers are enabled to design and build native applications for ...