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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

By : Colin Holgate
Book Image

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 – using MobGUI to remember layouts for us


If you were following along there, and checked the MobGUI window box to disable auto geometry, uncheck it again. We're going to need it!

  1. Create a new Mainstack.

  2. Using the MobGUI window, set the card window to be iPhone sized and Landscape.

  3. Drag a NavBar control onto the card.

  4. Drag a TabBar onto the card.

  5. Right-click on the MobGUI button control, and select 4, then drag those four buttons onto the TabBar you just added.

  6. Alt+double-click on one of those buttons to spread them out, and also move them vertically to be nicely positioned against the TabBar.

  7. Click on the iPhone picture in the MobGUI window, and change the orientation to be Portrait.

  8. Select the TabBar and its buttons, and move them to the bottom of the portrait card window.

  9. Use the Alt+double-click trick to make the TabBar, the NavBar, and the buttons, spread themselves across the width of the portrait card window.

  10. Try clicking on the Portrait and Landscape buttons. The layout should...