Chapter 4: Multiple Platforms, One Code Base

We are now ready to dive into the real focus of this book: multiple platforms! We're going to wade through a lot of new territory in this chapter, introducing FireMonkey, setting up other platforms for deployment, and the best part, seeing your application running on your phone or tablet!

We'll take you through these concepts in the following sections:

  • Moving to FireMonkey from the VCL
  • Preparing other platforms
  • Working with various screen sizes
  • Writing code to support multiple platforms

Technical requirements

Besides the typical requirements of this book for running Delphi 10.4 Sydney on a Windows 10 64-bit computer, to run all the examples listed in this chapter and the ones in the rest of this ...

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