Opening a web page

There could be a need for you to open a web page within your mobile app. You are not likely to create a new mobile browser using LiveCode; however, LiveCode does provide basic functionality for you to be able to display web pages in your mobile apps. In this recipe, you will learn how to open and display a web page within your mobile application using LiveCode.

How to do it...

Follow the steps in this recipe to create a mobile app that opens a web page:

1. Open LiveCode and create a new main stack.
2. Using the Standalone Application Settings dialog window, enable the landscape rotation of your selected mobile device.
3. Create a group on your card with the following specifications:
   • Name: Browser
   • Width: 312
   • Height: 390
   • Location: 160, 225
4. Create a text input field on your card with the following specifications:
   • Name: fld_URL
   • Width: 312
   • Height: 23
   • Location: 160, 15
5. Add the following code to the card:

   local browserID
   
   on preOpenCard
     mobileControlCreate "browser"
     put the result into...