Chapter 7. Deploying to Your Device

Don't keep it all to yourself!

Tools such as LiveCode can be used entirely for personal productivity applications, and would more than pay for themselves in the time that it would save you every day. But why not let the rest of the world benefit from your creations!

So far we have created several little test-rig apps, and a few more fleshed out ones. In all cases though, we've just tested those inside simulators or on your own personal device. The time has come to get it out to more people, for beta testing at first, and then for uploading to the different app stores.

In this chapter we will cover the following:

• Examine all the Standalone Application Settings options that relate to creating mobile apps

• Create builds of an app so that it can be sent to beta testers

• Build a final distribution version of an app

• Review how to upload apps to the iOS App Store, Amazon AppStore, and Google Play

Note

There are some stages in creating iOS apps for the App Store that have...