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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

Creating an app store submission file


The biggest hurdle to overcome in order to make a version of your app that can be submitted to app stores is the acquiring of a distribution certificate. The process is quicker for Android, but does involve some typing in the command line, and there is a slight difference if you are on Windows rather than Mac. The iOS process has many steps to it, but at least those don't involve typing cryptic commands. We'll look at Android first.

Finding and using the Android Keytool application

One of the things that was installed when you added the Java Development Kit is a tool for making a keystore file, which is a self-assigned certificate. It's this tool that is used to create the certificate you'll need in order to distribute an Android app.

On Mac you don't need to find that application, you can simply type the command into the Terminal, and the tool is found for you. On Windows you need to navigate to the folder where Keytool lives. Before getting that far...