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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

By : Colin Holgate
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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

By: Colin Holgate

Overview of this book

LiveCode is a tool for developing mobile apps designed for those who don't want to use Objective-C, C++ or Java. Although it is a tool full of rich features to create apps it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build interactive and fun apps. Using this book, you can develop various apps and this book guides you through "till you upload the apps in the appstore."LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide" will explain how to create applications with the easiest, most practical cross platform framework available, Livecode Mobile and upload the apps to the appstore with minimal effort.Throughout the book, you'll learn details that will help you become a pro at mobile app development using LiveCode. You begin with simple calculator application and quickly enhance it using LiveCode Mobile. Start by learning the interface controls for videos and images of LiveCode's environment. Dig into configuring devices, building user interfaces, and making rich media applications, then finish by uploading the mobile applications to App Stores. You will learn how to build apps for devices such as iPhone, Android with the recently developed LiveCode Mobile through sample applications of increasing complexity.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up a test bed mobile app


As a proving ground for the things we're going to try, we'll set up a single mobile app that has multiple screens, one for each of the things we want to test.

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What to call the test bed app?

We could call it almost anything, but we'll let the iPhone help make the decision for us. On the iPhone, and iPod touch, there is only a small amount of space under the home screen icons for the name to appear. iOS will take your nice long app name and will show a shortened version of the name, using ellipses to concatenate the ends of the name together. "My super duper app" will appear as "My sup…app" - not quite as informative! The number of letters that can appear without it being truncated will vary depending on the width of the letters used, but typically it is a limit of 11 letters. So, we will call the test bed app "LC Test Bed", which is exactly 11 letters!