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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

What is a "reminder"?


Here is a list of few things that you might call a "reminder":

  • Shopping list

  • Christmas present list

  • To-do list

  • Alarm clock

  • Egg timer

  • Birthday reminder

Now, is there a single way to describe all of those things? Well, it may get wordy, but a reminder could be described as:

A notification message or sound that either appears automatically, or shows when you look for it, which is used to let you know that a certain time has passed, a moment has arrived, or that an outstanding task has not been completed.

See, pretty wordy. Breaking it down like that helps to see what features a reminders app will need to have. Before getting to that, let's test the definition against the examples from here

  • Shopping list: In this case, you go looking for the reminder, although we could set it up to automatically show when your location happens to be near the store! Other than that case, this is effectively a task that has not been completed.

  • Christmas present list: Much the same as a shopping list...