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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 – simple code layout example


It could get quite complicated if you laid out all of the card's controls with code, so we're only going to construct a simple case, to show the technique. You can enhance this later for more complex cases.

  1. Create a new Mainstack.

  2. Add four buttons across the width of the card.

  3. Put this handler into the card script:

    on resizeStack newWidth,newHeight
       put the width of button 1 into buttonWidth
       put (newWidth - 4 * buttonWidth)/5 into gap
       put the top of button 1 into buttonTop
       repeat with a = 1 to 4
          set the top of button a to buttonTop
          set the left of button a to gap + (a-1) * (gap+buttonWidth)
       end repeat
       pass resizeStack
    end resizeStack
  4. Resize the card window. The buttons should spread out evenly across the card.

  5. Go to Standalone Application Settings and select the iOS option.

  6. Make sure that the supported devices include iPad.

  7. Set the orientation options to include all four orientations.

  8. From the Development menu set the Test...