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Fasten Your Seat Belts

The key benefit of Delphi in mobile development is that you can design your app once and you can natively compile it for both Android and iOS from the same source code. This chapter is exactly about this capability. We are going to install Delphi, create a simple one-button “Hello World” app, and then run the same app on an Android phone and an iOS device.

The integrated development environment (IDE) is where the programmer spends most of their time. Learning best practices of using the IDE will pay off in the future and will increase your developer productivity. Before building apps, you need to feel comfortable working in the Delphi IDE.

The objective of this chapter is to help you install the Delphi IDE, learn basic ...

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