Bootcamp: From REST Services to Mobile Apps

Learn to build modern REST APIs with the Delphi MVC Framework and connect them to a FireMonkey app for Android and iOS.

26–27 November 2026 | Düsseldorf

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Two days of Delphi power: Together we build a working time-tracking application – from the REST API with DMVC to the cross-platform app.

Backend meets mobile: Build modern REST APIs with the Delphi MVC Framework and connect them to a FireMonkey app for Android and iOS.

After the bootcamp you can build a REST API with DMVC, secure it, and consume it from a FireMonkey app.

From REST Services to Mobile Apps

Bootcamp Day 1: REST API with Delphi and DMVC

Trainer: Bernd Ua · Language: German

REST fundamentals and architecture

– Understanding HTTP, REST and JSON
– Designing a RESTful API
– REST frameworks in Delphi at a glance

API design with the Delphi MVC Framework

– Resources, endpoints and routing
– DMVC controllers and parameters
– Building the time-tracking API with DMVC

Serialisation and database access

– JSON serialisation and deserialisation
– Database connectivity in DMVC
– Structured data models

Error handling and documentation

– Exception handling and HTTP status codes
– Swagger middleware in DMVC
– Testing and documenting the REST API

Authorisation and authentication

– Authentication and authorisation for REST APIs
– DMVC middleware for authorisation
– Securing REST endpoints

Deployment from the server's perspective

– Deploying DMVC applications
– Security considerations in production
– From REST API to live operation

Bootcamp Day 2: Hands-On FireMonkey: Building a Cross-Platform Mobile Client

Trainer: Andrea Magni · Language: English

FireMonkey application architecture

– Structuring a cross-platform application
– From skeleton to finished app
– Step by step instead of isolated demos

REST communication with Delphi

– Connecting to the time-tracking API from day 1
– Requests and responses in the FireMonkey client
– Processing REST API data in the client

LiveBindings and data presentation

– Displaying data with list controls
– LiveBindings in practice
– Data flow between REST API and interface

Styles, SVG icons and animations

– Designing FireMonkey interfaces with styles
– Working with SVG icons
– Animations and responsive UI

Runtime permissions & asynchronous dialogs

– Runtime permissions on Android & iOS
– Asynchronous dialogs in FireMonkey
– Native mobile development with Delphi

Camera integration and platform services

– Linking a user photo to a time-tracking entry
– Depending on time and interest: location, local notifications, sharing and on-device storage
– Reusable approaches for your own FireMonkey apps

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End-to-end development with Delphi

Learn the complete development process – from designing a REST API with DMVC to a finished mobile FireMonkey application for Android and iOS.

Hands-on, not theory

Across both days you build one continuous Delphi project and turn every concept into working code – no demo zoo, but an application that grows feature by feature.

Modern best practices for REST APIs

Find out how to design REST APIs with the Delphi MVC Framework, document them with Swagger, secure them with middleware and take them into production.

Cross-platform with FireMonkey

Build a mobile client for Android and iOS that talks to your REST API and uses native device features such as the camera and runtime permissions.

Ready for your own Delphi projects

The techniques and best practices covered transfer directly to your own Delphi projects.

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Target audience

Delphi developers with a basic knowledge of OOP
Developers who want to build REST APIs with the Delphi MVC Framework themselves
Developers looking to get started with cross-platform development in FireMonkey
Teams planning to extend an existing Delphi application with a REST API and a mobile app

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Delphi and object-oriented programming
Some experience with databases and SQL is helpful
Laptop with Delphi installed (current version recommended)
Android or iOS device for testing (optional)

Trainer

Bernd Ua

Bernd Ua is founder and managing director of probucon Business Consulting, a consulting and training firm offering a broad range of services for software development – from training through architecture, project management and code reviews to implementation. He has worked for many years as a software architect, developer and trainer for native applications with Embarcadero Delphi and in the .NET world with C#. He also writes for Entwickler Magazin, among others, and appears regularly as a speaker at national and international events.

Andrea Magni

Andrea Magni is an Italian computer scientist, a long-time Delphi developer and an Embarcadero MVP. He is the author of the open-source libraries MARS, TFrameStand and FMXER, as well as the FMX standard work Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey, and appears regularly as a speaker at international Delphi conferences.

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