Book Image

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 – using Photoshop to prepare button states


The file we are going to use has Photoshop filter effects that GIMP cannot handle, so unfortunately you will need Photoshop to follow these steps, or at least a friend who has Photoshop!

  1. Read the Read the article from the following link:

    http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/03/07/photoshop-template-forios-buttons/

  2. The article points to some other sources of information, but for now just download this file:

    http://spin.atomicobject.com/assets/2011/3/7/iOS_Buttons.psd

  3. Open the file in Photoshop (it may open automatically).

  4. In the Layers palette hide the layers named Background and Tool Bar – Retina.

  5. Expand the layer named Bar Button – Retina, and hide the Button Label layer.

  6. Use the Marquee tool to select an area around the upper right-hand side button. It should now look like the following:

  7. Choose Copy Merged from the Edit menu.

  8. Select New from the File menu, make sure the Background Contents are set to Transparent, and accept the size you are...