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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

Time for action – creating the reminder app screens


The steps shown here are going to use the standard LiveCode fields and buttons, but feel free to make your version more attractive!

  1. Create a new Mainstack, give it a name of EasyReminder, and select Save. Other options such as Simple Reminders might be more descriptive, but would be too long a name if you're using an iPhone.

  2. Set the card size to the size of your device. The screenshots shown next are based on an iPhone sized stack.

  3. Go into Standalone Application Settings, and set the values in the same way that we did while testing the Location feature.

  4. Set the name of the first card to be home.

  5. Create a Sort by Time button, a Sort by Location button, one field named reminders, another field named data, and two buttons named Create Reminder… and Create Location….

  6. Add one more button, named Delete Location or Reminder.

  7. Make sure that both fields have their Lock text box checked, and Don't wrap checked.

  8. You should have something similar to the...