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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – testing a simple stack on devices


Now, let's try running our tests on physical devices. Get your USB cables ready and connect the devices to your computer.

Lets go through the steps for an Android device first:

  1. You should still have Android selected in Standalone Application Settings.

  2. Get your device to its home screen past the initial Lock screen if there is one.

  3. Choose Development/Test Target and select your Android device. It may well say "Android" and a very long number.

  4. Choose Development/Test.

  5. The stack should now be running on your Android device.

Now, we'll go through the steps to test a simple stack on an iOS device:

  1. If you have not read Chapter 7, Deploying to Your Device, on how to deploy the current environment to your device or the Apple pages or have not installed certificates and provisioning files, you will have to skip this test for now.

  2. Change the Standalone Application Settings back to iOS.

  3. Under Basic Application Settings of the iOS settings is a Profile drop...