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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 – calling the native e-mail application


We'll make some fields and a button to try out sending an e-mail feature.

  1. Go to the e-mail card and create four fields. Name them From, CC, Subject, and Body.

  2. Make a button named Test.

  3. In the Test button, type the following script:

    on mouseUp
       put field "To" into toText
       put field "CC" into ccText
       put field "Subject" into subjectText
       put field "Body" into bodyText
       revMail toText,ccText,subjectText,bodyText
    end mouseup
  4. Select the Run tool and type example information into each of the fields.

  5. Click on the Test button.

What just happened?

One neat thing about LiveCode syntax is that the code for mobile applications also works for desktop applications, and vice versa. All being well, when you clicked the Test button you found yourself in your default e-mail application, ready to send the message that you had entered in the LiveCode stack fields.

Installing the e-mail test onto devices

It's no great surprise that the desktop test worked...