LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition

LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

LiveCode Fundamentals

LiveCode Fundamentals

Background history and metaphors

You do have LiveCode, don't you?

Learning the lay of the land

Time for action – it's a drag, but you'll like it!

Time for action – making cards and navigating between them

Making a simple calculator application

Time for action – making the calculator buttons

Other interface controls

Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile

Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile

iOS, Android, or both?

Becoming an Android developer

Becoming an iOS developer

Before we make our first mobile app…

Time for action – starting an Android Virtual Device

Time for action – adding Kindle Fire to ADB

Time for action – using the iOS simulator

Appiness at last!

Time for action – testing a simple stack in the simulators

Time for action – testing a simple stack on devices

Further reading

Building User Interfaces

Building User Interfaces

Setting up a test bed mobile app

Time for action – making the test bed stack

Time for action – calling the native e-mail application

Time for action – trying the test bed stack on devices

Time for action – calling the native browser application

The mobile-only date picker

Time for action – displaying a date picker

Time for action – loading pictures for a mobile device

Making OS-styled buttons

Time for action – using Photoshop to prepare button states

MobGUI to the rescue!

Time for action – getting started with MobGUI

Time for action – using MobGUI to make a test bed app

Time for action – using native controls from MobGUI

Time for action – a simple code layout example

Time for action – using the Geometry Manager to position buttons

Resolution independence

Using Remote Data and Media

Using Remote Data and Media

The stack structure

Loading and saving external data

Time for action – creating a data save stack

Creating a web "scraper" app

Time for action – setting up the tab navigation

Time for action – adding the browser controls

Time for action – making a links extraction function

Time for action – adding the links card's init handler

Time for action – setting up the Text card

Time for action – extracting a list of media links

Time for action – setting up the Media card scripts

Time for action – setting up the Keepers card

Making a Jigsaw Puzzle Application

Making a Jigsaw Puzzle Application

Image data format

Misusing imageData

Time for action – testing a getPixel function

Time for action – making a map of the United States

Time for action – making a racecourse

Time for action – making a racecar

Making a jigsaw puzzle

Time for action – creating the pieces and choosing an image

Time for action – transferring imageData

Time for action – setting up touch events

Making a Reminder Application

Making a Reminder Application

Different types of reminders

Timing of notifications

Time for action – creating date and time pickers

Time for action – trying out native location tracking

Information needed in a reminder

Making the reminder app

Time for action – creating the reminder app screens

Time for action – adding stack-level functions

Time for action – making the home card buttons work

Time for action – making the location card work

Time for action – taking in information about the reminder

Deploying to Your Device

Deploying to Your Device

Standalone application settings

Building Apps for Beta Testers

Creating an app store submission file

Uploading to the app stores

Extending LiveCode

Extending LiveCode

The story so far…

Extending LiveCode

Creating your own add-ons

A New World of Extensions

Index

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Becoming an iOS developer

Creating iOS LiveCode applications requires that LiveCode must have access to the iOS SDK. This is installed as part of the Xcode developer tools and is a Mac-only program. Also, when you upload an app to the iOS App Store, the application used is Mac only and is part of the Xcode installation. If you are a Windows-based developer and wish to develop and publish for iOS, you need either an actual Mac based system or a virtual machine that can run the Mac OS. We can even use VirtualBox for running a Mac based virtual machine, but performance will be an issue. Refer to http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/63147/is-mac-os-x-in-a-virtualbox-vm-suitable-for-ios-development for more information.

The biggest difference between becoming an Android developer and becoming an iOS developer is that you have to sign up with Apple for their developer program even if you never produce an app for the iOS App Store, but no such signing up is required when becoming an Android...