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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 – setting up the Media card scripts


Copy the functions you proved to work in the test stack script, and paste them into WebScraper stack script. Then…

  1. Go to the Media card. As with the Links card we're not going to add any controls to the card, we'll do that with script. So, edit the card script.

  2. Here is the Media card's init function, and needed global variables:

    global gPageHTML,gMediaList
    
    on init
       if the platform is "iphone" or the platform is "android" then
          put getMedia(gPageHTML) into gMediaList
          if the number of lines in gMediaList = 0 then
             answer "There is no media in this page!"
          else
             set the itemdelimiter to "/"
             put empty into tMediaNames
             repeat with a = 1 to the number of lines in gMediaList
                put the last item of line a of gMediaList into line a of tMediaNames
             end repeat
             mobilePick tMediaNames,1
             if the result > 0 then
                put the result into tMediaLine
             ...