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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 – adding the browser controls


Return to the first card of the stack, and find your way to the native controls part of the MobGUI window.

  1. Drag the Browser control onto the card window. It's the one with the thumbnail showing Google's search page.

  2. Resize the control to fill the width of the card, and its height to fit between the tab bar and a little way below the NavBar. Give it the name Browser.

  3. With the browser control selected, check the box in the MobGUI window titled Auto destroy on closeCard. This will help reduce the memory usage of the final app during the times you're not on the browser card.

  4. Drag a native Text control into the gap between the browser control and the NavBar. Name it url, and resize it to be nearly as wide as the card, leaving space for a Go button on the right.

  5. Drag a Button control into that space, set its label to Go, and resize it to look nice. You can Option/Alt-double-click to have it space itself a standard distance from the right of the card window...