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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?


We're well on the way to knowing how to set a time and date for the reminder notification to occur, and will be able to sort the reminders based on the distance from where we are. But what exact information do we need to have in the reminder itself?

If this were a birthday reminder app, then you would just need to ask for the person's name and the date for their birthday. If it were a shopping list app, then you would need the name of the item and maybe a quantity. For a timer, you would need to ask what the event was called and a time for the event.

Here though, we're trying to make a completely flexible reminder app; it would be up to the user to describe the item however they like. So we'll just ask for a title and a brief description. We will also need to offer the option of setting a date, a time, an associated location, and whether an alert sound should be played or not.

Another thing to think about is where will we store the information for the list of reminders? When doing the...