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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

By : Colin Holgate, Joel W Gerdeen
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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

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By: Colin Holgate, Joel W Gerdeen
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Overview of this book

The ideal reader for this book would be someone who already knows LiveCode, is interested in creating mobile apps, and wants to save the many hours it took for me to track down all of the information on how to get started! Chapter 1, LiveCode Fundamentals, will help those of you who know programming but are not familiar with LiveCode. The knowledge you've acquired should be enough for you to benefit from the remainder of the book.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Sections
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Time for action – heading
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. LiveCode Fundamentals
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1. LiveCode Fundamentals
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Background history and metaphors
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You do have LiveCode, don't you?
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Learning the lay of the land
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Time for action – it's a drag, but you'll like it!
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Time for action – making cards and navigating between them
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Making a simple calculator application
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Time for action – making the calculator buttons
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Other interface controls
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Debugging
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Summary
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2. Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile
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2. Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile
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iOS, Android, or both?
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Becoming an Android developer
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Becoming an iOS developer
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Before we make our first mobile app…
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Time for action – starting an Android Virtual Device
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Time for action – adding Kindle Fire to ADB
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Time for action – using the iOS simulator
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Appiness at last!
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Time for action – testing a simple stack in the simulators
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Time for action – testing a simple stack on devices
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Further reading
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Summary
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3. Building User Interfaces
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3. Building User Interfaces
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Setting up a test bed mobile app
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Time for action – making the test bed stack
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Time for action – calling the native e-mail application
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Time for action – trying the test bed stack on devices
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Time for action – calling the native browser application
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The mobile-only date picker
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Time for action – displaying a date picker
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Time for action – loading pictures for a mobile device
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Making OS-styled buttons
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Time for action – using Photoshop to prepare button states
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MobGUI to the rescue!
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Time for action – getting started with MobGUI
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Time for action – using MobGUI to make a test bed app
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Time for action – using native controls from MobGUI
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Time for action – a simple code layout example
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Time for action – using the Geometry Manager to position buttons
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Resolution independence
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Summary
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4. Using Remote Data and Media
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4. Using Remote Data and Media
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The stack structure
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Loading and saving external data
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Time for action – creating a data save stack
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Creating a web "scraper" app
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Time for action – setting up the tab navigation
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Time for action – adding the browser controls
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Time for action – making a links extraction function
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Time for action – adding the links card's init handler
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Time for action – setting up the Text card
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Time for action – extracting a list of media links
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Time for action – setting up the Media card scripts
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Time for action – setting up the Keepers card
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Summary
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5. Making a Jigsaw Puzzle Application
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5. Making a Jigsaw Puzzle Application
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Image data format
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Misusing imageData
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Time for action – testing a getPixel function
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Time for action – making a map of the United States
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Time for action – making a racecourse
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Time for action – making a racecar
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Making a jigsaw puzzle
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Time for action – creating the pieces and choosing an image
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Time for action – transferring imageData
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Time for action – setting up touch events
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Summary
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6. Making a Reminder Application
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6. Making a Reminder Application
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Different types of reminders
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Timing of notifications
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Time for action – creating date and time pickers
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Where?
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Time for action – trying out native location tracking
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Information needed in a reminder
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Making the reminder app
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Time for action – creating the reminder app screens
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Time for action – adding stack-level functions
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Time for action – making the home card buttons work
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Time for action – making the location card work
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Time for action – taking in information about the reminder
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Summary
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7. Deploying to Your Device
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7. Deploying to Your Device
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Standalone application settings
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Building Apps for Beta Testers
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Creating an app store submission file
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Uploading to the app stores
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Summary
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A. Extending LiveCode
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The story so far…
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Extending LiveCode
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Creating your own add-ons
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A New World of Extensions
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Index
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Index

Chapter 5. Making a Jigsaw Puzzle Application

Picture this…

So far, we've been dealing with a lot of text or calling mobile OS features. These are neat things, but they're not that visual. If you were longing to mess around with pictures and image data, your time has come!

LiveCode isn't naturally a graphics powerhouse and its way of handling image data (often referred to as "bitmap data" by other tools) is somewhat unusual. It effectively stores the pixels of an image as a series of single byte characters to represent the red, green, and blue values of each pixel. Handling a final image is quite flexible, but in order to create something along the lines of a jigsaw puzzle, we need to understand the format of imageData, a LiveCode property.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Examine the way LiveCode stores bitmap data in an image object
  • Find a way to use a single bitmap in place of 50 buttons
  • Make a collision detection map
  • Create a jigsaw puzzle app that takes...
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