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

You're reading from   LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition) Create interactive mobile apps for Android and iOS with LiveCode

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849699655
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Colin Holgate Colin Holgate
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Joel W Gerdeen Joel W Gerdeen
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Preface 1. LiveCode Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile 3. Building User Interfaces 4. Using Remote Data and Media 5. Making a Jigsaw Puzzle Application 6. Making a Reminder Application 7. Deploying to Your Device A. Extending LiveCode Index

Setting up a test bed mobile app


As a proving ground for the things we're going to try, we'll set up a single mobile app that has multiple screens, one for each of the things we want to test.

What should we call the test bed app? We could call it almost anything, but we'll let the iPhone make the decision for us. On the iPhone and iPod touch, there is only a small amount of space under the home screen icons for the name to appear. iOS will take your nice long app name and show a shortened version of the name, using ellipses to concatenate the ends of the name together. My super duper app will appear as My sup…app, not quite as informative! The number of letters that can appear without the text being truncated will vary depending on the width of the letters used, but typically, it has a limit of 11 letters. So, we will call the test bed app LC Test Bed, which is exactly 11 letters!

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