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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

Time for action – trying test bed stack on devices


Connect your Android and/or iOS device to your computer using USB. These instructions are almost the same as those in the previous chapter, where we tested a Hello World stack, and after this point any directions will be briefer, based on the assumption that you know the steps needed to test an app on your device. Chapter 7, Deploying to Your Device, describes all of the options in the Standalone Applications Settings dialog box, but for the moment we're only going to fill in a few details, so here we will view just a portion of the dialog, starting with the Android settings.

  1. Make sure that Android is checked in the Standalone Application Settings dialog box.

  2. In the Identifier field, type in an identifier that will be unique. com.yourname.lctestbed would do.

  3. Get your device to its home screen, past the initial lock screen if there is one.

  4. In LiveCode, choose Development/Test Target, and select your Android device. It will be named Android followed...