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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

Time for action – starting an Android virtual device


You will have to do a little digging deep into the Android SDK folders to find the Android Virtual Device setup program, and you might well want to make a shortcut or alias to it for quicker access.

  1. Navigate to the Android SDK tools folder, located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\ on Windows, and in your Documents:android-sdk-macosx:tools folder on Mac.

  2. Open AVD Manager on Windows, or Android on Mac (it looks like a Unix executable - just double-click on it, and the application will open via a command-line window).

  3. If you're on Mac, select Manage AVDs… from the Tools menu.

  4. Select Tablet from the list of devices (there are only two when you have first installed the android SDK - you can add your own custom ones here as well).

  5. Click on the Start button.

  6. Sit patiently while the virtual device starts up!

  7. Open LiveCode, and create a new Mainstack, and Save the stack to your hard drive.

  8. Select File | Standalone Application Settings….

  9. Click...