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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 1, LiveCode Fundamentals


Pop Quiz – best name?

Answer: Henry. In the early days of multimedia it seemed like everyone had one of just a few names. There was Bill Atkinson, who created HyperCard, and Bill Appleton, who created SuperCard. Kevin Calhoun was the lead HyperCard programmer for a while, and Kevin Miller is the head of RunRev. Bob Stein was one of the founders of The Voyager Company, and along with Bob Abel was one of the pioneers in multimedia. Dan was another good choice, with there being Dan Winkler, author of the HyperTalk language, and Danny Goodman, author of many famous programming books. Henry would be a good name if you wanted to make motorcars, or marry lots of queens.

Pop quiz – try to remember…

Answer: The Text Formatting section of the Inspector palette. Getting to that section involved selecting the Edit tool, clicking on the title field, and choosing Text Formatting from the Inspector palette drop-down menu. However, there is indeed a Text menu. Really that's what we should have used!