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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 – creating the pieces and choosing an image


If you wish to follow along with exactly the same image as shown here, it was taken from the top left-hand side of this file:

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  1. Make a new Mainstack at 1024x768 (or the size of your tablet device). Name the stack jigsaw, and set the title to Jigsaw Puzzle. Do a Save.

  2. Open the whole puzzle image in your image editor.

  3. Use the Magic Wand tool to pick up the inner part of the upper left-hand side piece of the puzzle.

  4. Fill that with a color that makes it easy to spot any remaining gaps.

  5. Copy and paste into a new document (with a transparent background) that is the size of the piece you copied.

  6. Repair any gaps, using the brush tool set to the same fill color.

  7. Save as a PNG (with Photoshop that would be Save for Web and Devices, 24 bit, with transparency). Use a naming scheme that will help you identify the images easily. For example...