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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

Chapter 6. Making a Reminder Application

Note to self…

To-do lists, alarms, birthday reminders, notes, shopping lists, the list goes on. There should be an app for keeping a list of different apps that keep the lists! At the time of writing, there were already over 2,000 iPad apps that are lists, planners, or alarms. Perhaps there's room for one more…

It would take a lot of research and money to explore all of the reminders apps that are out there. The majority of the apps will have a lot of features that you'll never use, and at least one vital feature that is missing. If you're lucky, some combination of apps may do all of the things you want. But don't forget, by using LiveCode, you can make your own reminders app!

In this chapter we will:

  • Discuss what is meant by a "reminder"

  • Create some time-measuring utility functions

  • Define a data structure for storing information about an event

  • Make use of mobile device "notifications"

  • Create a flexible reminders app