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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

Adjusting things for different screen sizes


So far we have only tested using an iPhone size, and only the Portrait orientation. You may well want to use the same stack for iPhone and iPad, or perhaps iPad and an Android tablet, which have quite different aspect ratios.

Even if you stick only to the iPhone, you would still want to take care of Portrait and Landscape orientations. We therefore have to find ways to arrange the many controls on the card to look their best for each screen size and orientation.

There are several ways to achieve this. Firstly we'll look at using a resize handler.

Layout using a resize handler

When a stack's window size changes, LiveCode sends a resizeStack message that we can trap, in order to rearrange the controls for the new width and height.