LiveCode mobile development beginner's guide : create fun-filled, rich apps for Android and iOS with LiveCode / Colin Holgate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holgate, Colin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smartphones--Programming.

Smartphones.

Operating systems (Computers).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Mobile computing--Programming.

Mobile computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Holgate Colin: Colin Holgate was originally trained as a telecommunications technician in the Royal Air Force, but with the advent of the personal computer era he transitioned to working as a technical support engineer for companies that included Apple Computer UK. In 1992 he moved to the USA, to become a full time multimedia programmer, working for The Voyager Company. In that role he programmed several award winning CD-ROMs, including A Hard DayaTMs Night and This Is Spinal Tap. For the last 12 years Colin has worked for Funny Garbage, a New York City based web design company. In addition to using Adobe Director and Adobe Flash for online and kiosk application, he has used LiveCode for in-house production tools. At the introduction of LiveCode for Mobile at the RunRevLive Conference in 2011, Colin entered, and won a contest to create a mobile application made with LiveCode.

Summary:

Create fun filled, rich apps for Android and iOS with LiveCode

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:LiveCode Fundamentals; Background history and metaphors; You do have LiveCode, don't you?; Learning the lay of the land; Main windows; Time for action - it's a drag, but you'll like it!; Creating a hierarchy; Stack structure; Where code goes; Time for action - making and navigating between cards; Making a simple calculator application; Inspector clues, oh...; Time for action - making the calculator buttons; Verbosity, synonyms, and ""me""; Adding the card handlers

Variable types in LiveCodeExtending the calculator; Other interface controls; Video player control; Still image control; Rollover buttons; Many More Controls...; Debugging; RunRev's online tutorials; Summary; Chapter 2:Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile; iOS, Android, or both?; Becoming an Android developer; Android Market; Amazon Appstore; Downloading the Android SDK; Installing Android SDK on Mac OS X (Intel); Installing Android SDK on Windows; Pointing LiveCode to the Android SDK; Becoming an iOS developer; Installing Xcode; Pointing LiveCode to the iOS SDKs

Before we can make our first mobile appGetting ready to test for Android; Time for action - starting an Android virtual device; Connecting a physical Android device; Using a Kindle Fire; Time for action - adding a Kindle Fire to ADB; Getting ready to test for iOS; Time for action - using the iOS simulator; Appiness at last!; Time for action - testing a simple stack in the simulators; Time for action - testing a simple stack on devices; Further reading; Summary; Chapter 3:Building User Interfaces; Setting up a test bed mobile app; Time for action - making the test bed stack

Invoking the desktop e-mail applicationTime for action - calling the native e-mail application; Installing the e-mail test onto devices; Time for action - trying test bed stack on devices; Opening a web page; Time for action - calling the native browser application; Mobile-only, date picker; Time for action - showing a date picker; Mobile-only, loading pictures; Time for action - loading pictures; Making OS styled buttons; Using bitmaps; Time for action - using Photoshop to prepare button states; MobGUI to the rescue!; Time for action - getting started with MobGUI

Test bed app, the MobGUI wayTime for action - using MobGUI to make a test bed app; MobGUI native controls; Time for action - using native controls from MobGUI; Adjusting things for different screen sizes; Layout using a resize handler; Time for action - simple code layout example; Layout using the LiveCode Geometry Manager; Time for action - using the Geometry Manager to position buttons; Layout using MobGUI; Time for action - using MobGUI to remember layouts for us; Further reading; Summary; Chapter 4:Using Remote Data and Media; Stack structure; Code driven and manually created layouts

Locations for code

Notes:

"Learn by doing : less theory, more results."

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613832191

9781283519748

1283519747

9781849692496

1849692491

OCLC:

807433925