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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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781849699655

Length 256 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

LiveCode

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Colin Holgate

Joel W Gerdeen

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

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

Becoming an iOS developer

Creating iOS LiveCode applications requires that LiveCode must have access to the iOS SDK. This is installed as part of the Xcode developer tools and is a Mac-only program. Also, when you upload an app to the iOS App Store, the application used is Mac only and is part of the Xcode installation. If you are a Windows-based developer and wish to develop and publish for iOS, you need either an actual Mac based system or a virtual machine that can run the Mac OS. We can even use VirtualBox for running a Mac based virtual machine, but performance will be an issue. Refer to http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/63147/is-mac-os-x-in-a-virtualbox-vm-suitable-for-ios-development for more information.

The biggest difference between becoming an Android developer and becoming an iOS developer is that you have to sign up with Apple for their developer program even if you never produce an app for the iOS App Store, but no such signing up is required when becoming an Android...

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Authors (2)

Colin Holgate

Colin Holgate

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 Dayâ€™s 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.

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Joel W Gerdeen

Joel W Gerdeen

Joel Gerdeen obtained a PhD in engineering mechanics and biomedical engineering from Iowa State University, where he started using computers in experimental research. In his first employment as a structural analyst, he developed software to assist other engineers to graphically model heavy machinery. His support of engineering computer usage transitioned into a career of software project management at FMC, Honeywell, and BAE Systems, all of which were Fortune 100 companies. Joel has experienced computing evolution from loading machine code through switches on a DEC minicomputer to booting a Raspberry Pi from a microSD card. He has worked with microprocessors, timesharing, personal computers, mainframe business systems, and latest mobile devices. After 35 years of employment, Joel ventured into mobile software development in 2010, working with a small start-up company and publishing numerous apps on both Apple and Google app stores. After working with separate iOS and Android development environments, he discovered LiveCode and was able to build on his former HyperCard experience. Joel is also active in the mobile development community in Minneapolis and has presented LiveCode at local conferences.

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