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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

By : Colin Holgate
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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

3.7 (11)
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)
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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Index

Loading and saving external data


In many applications you will want to keep track of changes that the user has made. There are several ways to do that with LiveCode, including querying of a URL, reading and writing to a text file, and saving data inside a stack.

Querying a URL

Quite often web-based applications will load and save data from server side scripts. That can be done with LiveCode apps too. Here's an example, where we want to know what the closing price was for Google yesterday:

put url "http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GOOG&f=p"

At the moment that line was tested, 609.46 appeared in the Message Box:

Who knows what you'll find when you try it!

As with any such calls to an online service there is a chance that it may take some time to return the value, and in the above example LiveCode would be blocked from doing anything else until the data was returned. An alternate approach would be to load the URL in order to cache it, and then display the results when it is cached. LiveCode...

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