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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

By : Colin Holgate
Book Image

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 – testing a simple stack in the simulators


Feel free to make things that are more elaborate than asked for in these steps! The instructions will be making the assumption that you know how to find things for yourself in the object inspector palette.

  1. Open LiveCode, create a new Mainstack, and save it to a location where it's easy to find in a moment from now.

  2. Set the card window to a size of 1024x768, and uncheck the Resizable checkbox.

  3. Drag a label field into the top-left corner of the card window, and set its contents to something appropriate. Hello World could do nicely!

  4. If you're developing on Windows, skip to step 11.

  5. Open the Standalone Application Settings dialog, click on the iOS icon, and select the Build for iOS checkbox.

  6. Under Orientation Options, set the iPhone initial orientation to Landscape.

  7. Close the dialog box.

  8. From the Development/Test Target sub-menu, choose the iPad Simulator.

  9. Select Test from the Development menu.

  10. You should be now seeing your test stack running...