FireMonkey Application Design

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FireMonkey uses lightweight GUI controls on top of a cross-platform abstraction, which is implemented for Windows and other platforms. Lightweight controls mean that every pixel is drawn by FireMonkey; no native (heavyweight) controls are used.

Using lightweight controls has the following advantages:

• Allows FireMonkey to create its own control and application design rules.
• Favors fidelity across platforms over fidelity to the host platform.
• Side-steps the "least common denominator" problem of heavyweight cross-platform frameworks.

Topics

• Creating a FireMonkey Application
  • Creating an Android App
  • Creating an iOS App
• Arranging FireMonkey Controls
  • FireMonkey Layouts Strategies
• Customizing FireMonkey Applications with Styles
  • FireMonkey Style Designer
  • Applying FireMonkey Styles
  • Editing a FireMonkey Style
  • Working with Native and Custom FireMonkey Styles
  • Converting a VCL Style to a FireMonkey Style
• Using FireMonkey Views
  • Adding Views to Your Multi-Device Project
  • Adding a Customized View to the View Selector
• Using Menus in a FireMonkey Application
  • Adding a Pop-up Menu to a FireMonkey Control
• Using FireMonkey Modal Dialog Boxes
• Setting Text Parameters in FireMonkey
• Using Hints to Show Contextual Help in a FireMonkey Application
• Using Pickers to Provide Platform-Specific Behavior and View of Selection Controls
• FireMonkey Text Layout
  • Using FireMonkey Text Layout Features
• Using Multi-Resolution Bitmaps
• Customizing FireMonkey ListView Appearance
• Multiple Display Support
• Using AppAnalytics in FireMonkey
• Using TImageList Image Lists as Centralized Collections of Images
• Using Pop-up Forms

See Also

• FireMonkey 3D
• FireMonkey Animation Effects
• FireMonkey Components Guide