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LiveCode Mobile Development HOTSHOT

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri
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LiveCode Mobile Development HOTSHOT

By: Dr. Edward Lavieri

Overview of this book

<p>There are over 2,000 programming languages and several that can be used to program mobile applications. LiveCode has proven itself a strong competitor in the mobile application development market. The power of this easy-to-learn programming environment will get you starting developing mobile apps from the very first chapter.</p> <p>"LiveCode Mobile Development Hotshot is a project-based guide to developing games and other apps for mobile devices using LiveCode. You will learn tricks and techniques for tackling even the most difficult mobile application topics. Best of all, you will be provided with 100% of the source code and have it explained too.</p> <p>"LiveCode Mobile Development Hotshot" will present you with ten exciting projects that will expose you to different LiveCode programming techniques for mobile application development. The hands-on approach provides you with clear, step-by-step instructions in each chapter where a different type of mobile app is tackled. You will enhance your current knowledge of this programming language and build upon it by learning specific techniques and programming approaches to developing mobile applications. You will create your own calculator app, learn how to use menus for mobile apps, and design user interfaces that are optimized for mobile users. In the following projects, you will create a quiz game and learn how to use LiveCode to develop an entire game on one card. Other projects will look at using randomization and animation, as well as database control. Among the advanced features, you will learn about gathering information about a user's device, how to create contextually aware objects, how to transfer scripts, how to use custom properties, how you can analyze and manipulate text, and how to use arrays.</p> <p>"LiveCode Mobile Development Hotshot" is a complete solution for people that are familiar with LiveCode and want to start developing mobile apps.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
LiveCode Mobile Development HOTSHOT
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Mobile App Development Primer
Index

Working with cards


Cards can be an important part of designing user interfaces. Each card represents a screen in your application. Depending upon the type of application that you are building, you might only need one card, or you could use many of them.

Engage Thrusters

Cards can be used in LiveCode to provide different interfaces and screens; they can also be used to organize your mobile app's content. Let's take a closer look at how to use cards for your mobile application.

Examining card properties

Let's begin by creating a new main stack named InteractiveFun_v2. The size of the stack should be 320 x 480 pixels. Once you create the new stack, review the Application Browser (shown in the following screenshot) to gain access to the default card:

When new main stacks are created, those stacks will contain one card. You can access the card directly by double-clicking on it. When you right-click on the card in the Application Browser, you can access the card's scripts and properties. The properties...