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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 – adding a Kindle Fire to ADB


It only takes one line of text to add the Kindle Fire to the list of devices that ADB knows about. The harder part is tracking down the text file to edit, and getting ADB to restart after making the changes. Things are more involved with Windows than Mac, because you also have to configure the USB driver, so the two systems are shown here as separate processes:

For Windows:

  1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to where the file adb_usb.ini is located, at C:\Users\yourusername\.android\.

  2. Open the text file adb_usb.ini in a text editor. The file has no visible line breaks, so Wordpad would be a better option than Notepad.

  3. On the line after the three instruction lines, type 0x1949.

  4. Make sure there are no blank lines, and the last character in the text file should be the 9 at the end of 0x1949.

  5. Save.

  6. Navigate to where android_winusb.inf is located, at C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver\.

  7. Right-click on the file, and in Properties...