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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 7. Deploying to Your Device

Don't keep it all to yourself!

Tools such as LiveCode can be used entirely for personal productivity applications, and would more than pay for themselves in the time that it would save you every day. But why not let the rest of the world benefit from your creations!

So far we have created several little test-rig apps, and a few more fleshed out ones. In all cases though, we've just tested those inside simulators or on your own personal device. The time has come to get it out to more people, for beta testing at first, and then for uploading to the different app stores.

In this chapter we will cover the following:

  • Examine all the Standalone Application Settings options that relate to creating mobile apps

  • Create builds of an app so that it can be sent to beta testers

  • Build a final distribution version of an app

  • Review how to upload apps to the iOS App Store, Amazon AppStore, and Google Play

Note

There are some stages in creating iOS apps for the App Store that have...