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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

Building Apps for Beta Testers


You may have been giving test builds to friends and colleagues all the way through developing your app, but even if you haven't, it becomes more important to do so as you get closer to uploading the app to the app stores. Beta testers can tell you about technical and non-technical issues. Are there typos in the Credits? Does the icon look good? Were there any strange aspects to the installation experience? And of course, does the app do what it's supposed to do, on the numerous devices and operating systems?

The process of making an app to send to a tester is different on Android than on iOS. In fact, it's incredibly easy on Android! Let's look at that first.

Sending an Android App to testers

When you do a Save as Standalone Application… for Android, you create an APK file. You could e-mail that file to your testers, and they could do what is called a "side load" of the file onto their device. In chapter 2, Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile, we saw how...