Delphi XE5 Mobile REST Client Demo Source

With the release of Delphi XE5 I’ve made the source of the Mobile REST Client Demo available. This is a really super simple demo of the Mobile REST Client in XE5. It is designed to show up how you can consume a JSON REST Service and adapt it into a DataSet and then bind that to the UI. If you change the data source you will probably need to change the live binding.

I’ve changed the demo from the one I used in the video to consume an OData data source. OData is a new standard backed by Microsoft for sharing data over the web. You can think of it as SQL for the web. It is a combination of other technologies, including REST, AtomPub, and JSON. Sybase supports OData on all of their databases now, as does Microsoft and others.

The change was simply a matter of pointing it to the Northwind OData endpoint provided on Odata.org. The binding is setup to show the company name in the listview. I added the ability to specify a Root Element, but that isn’t necessary for the demo.

This new technology works in both desktop and mobile, FireMonkey and VCL. It should also work in C++ Builder.

[Download the demo] (MobileRestXE5.7z 8 KB - Requires Delphi XE5 - Builds for iOS, Android or Win32)