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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

Uploading to the app stores


Each app store guides you through the steps of uploading a new app, and there are quite a lot of steps involved! It could take another book to show all the screens you have to wade through. Showing those screens here would not be so valuable, mainly because of the large quantity of screens, but also because the process changes from time to time. For example, Google even changed the name of their service since Chapter 2 was written!

There is some similarity between what each of the stores will ask you, so we'll look at what preparations you might want to take before heading off to the stores. When you are ready to proceed with the upload, these are the are the starting pages:

What's similar

All three app stores will ask for a description of what the app does, rating information, price, a support website or...