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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 – getting started with MobGUI


As with other add-ons to LiveCode, MobGUI will need to be installed into the LiveCode plugins folder. On Windows that will be My Documents/My LiveCode/Plugins. On Mac it will be ~/Documents/My LiveCode/Plugins.

  1. Download the latest version of MobGUI from http://mobgui.com/download.php.

  2. The zip file will expand to become a LiveCode stack, named revMobGUI.livecode.

  3. Drag the stack into the plugins folder, and reopen LiveCode.

  4. Make a new Maintstack.

  5. From the Development menu, choose Plugins/revMobGUI. This window will appear:

  6. The first of the icons is the splash screen, and the last five icons are for things such as registering, support, and getting updates. Click on the second icon, the one that looks like a play button. You will see this arrangement:

  7. The MobGUI window is much like a combination of the LiveCode Tool and Inspector palettes.

  8. Try dragging different items onto the card, and look at the options for each item.

  9. Right-click on the iPhone image,...