Livecode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide [Paperback]

With this book and your basic programming knowledge, you'll find it easy to use LiveCode to create mobile apps for Android and iOS. A great starting point for taking the app store by storm.

Overview

• Create fun, interactive apps with rich media features of LiveCode
• Step by step instructions for creating apps and interfaces
• Dive headfirst into mobile application development using LiveCode backed with clear explanations enriched with ample screenshots

What you will learn from this book

• Create a simple sample application
• Build the interface and write the code using a Multimedia Scrapbook as an example application.
• Make a 'To do/reminders application'
• Build User Interfaces like Touch interfaces
• Uploading your final app to the App Store
• Create a jigsaw puzzle app that takes advantage of several mobile device features
• Make standard looking buttons and fields, and programmatically create the screen layout

Approach

This book will follow a tutorial style, starting from basic LiveCode coding concepts to its real-world implementation. It will teach developers how to use this new framework to develop interactive, cross-platform mobile applications.

Who this book is written for

If you are a developer, consultant or student looking to create fast, scalable mobile applications, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of programming such as understanding variables, expressions, control structures and functions is required.

In Detail

LiveCode is a tool for developing mobile apps designed for those who don't want to use Objective-C, C++ or Java. Although it is a tool full of rich features to create apps it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build interactive and fun apps. Using this book, you can develop various apps and this book guides you through till you upl#S