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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

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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 upload the apps in the appstore."LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide" will explain how to create applications with the easiest, most practical cross platform framework available, Livecode Mobile and upload the apps to the appstore with minimal effort.Throughout the book, you'll learn details that will help you become a pro at mobile app development using LiveCode. You begin with simple calculator application and quickly enhance it using LiveCode Mobile. Start by learning the interface controls for videos and images of LiveCode's environment. Dig into configuring devices, building user interfaces, and making rich media applications, then finish by uploading the mobile applications to App Stores. You will learn how to build apps for devices such as iPhone, Android with the recently developed LiveCode Mobile through sample applications of increasing complexity.

What you will learn

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

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Dharma Guys Apr 12, 2015

This book has answers for so many things, AND has information and tips that are extremely cool and useful. A must have for anyone even a little serious. Extreme time saver.

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Phil Parker Aug 22, 2013

This is a great book that is so easy to follow & explains each step simply enough for a beginner.The LiveCode website is a great place to learn & there are lots of lessons there but I feel this book was better for anyone starting out.

by Richard MacLemale Nov 22, 2012

As an Intermediate LiveCode programmer who has already put two apps in the App Store, I wasn't sure what to expect from this book - would it be too basic for me to learn anything? Would it offer any insight into how I can streamline my own process for getting my apps into the store? And the answers were no and yes - no, it was not too basic, and yes, I am finding that the book has a lot of great information that I didn't know.One thing I would do is caution beginners - the book eases you into LiveCode, but it starts to ramp up and gets into some fairly advanced concepts - might be difficult for a beginner, but it's perfect for the intermediate programmers like me.My biggest problem is impatience - I want to jump right in and grab a few nuggets of knowledge, but this book really requires a more structured study. I have no doubt I'll get a lot more out of it when I take the time to really go through it.Summary - For beginners to LiveCode who want to make iOS and/or Android apps, it's a good book, but you might find the later chapters moderately challenging (which is NOT a bad thing.) For intermediate LiveCode programmers, you'll probably learn some nice tricks of the trade.

G. Feamster Aug 09, 2012

I've been programming for 30 years and tend to think in technical forms. So Livecode was a bit of a problem for me in that it veers away from the very technical and makes language syntax more layman oriented. I went through the video tutorials which are very good but until I read this book I didn't realize that there were holes in my knowledge and this fills those holes. There are good screen shots and using the kindle edition is economical and convenient with the kindle app on my nexus 7 tablet. Also there are weblinks that would encourage the use of the desktop kindle app on my mac.

Jim M Oct 09, 2012

I generally have a hard time with programming books. They are either too broadly focused and as a result never give enough truly useful information or they are so narrowly focused they are only useful if one is trying to solve exactly the problem the book is focusing on. When I agreed to review this book (in return for a copy), I expected to find it on one side or the other of that spectrum. I was very pleasantly surprised. Simply put,this book is not like that. The author has done an excellent job covering a very broad and potentially complex subject in enough detail to be useful without getting bogged down in minutiae.Using practical examples of apps that one can actually see as being useful, the author provides both the general background and detailed coding examples to get you started coding with LiveCode and actually get your apps up and out the door on Android and iOS devices. The first part of the book provides a compact introduction to LiveCode geared towards those with some previous experience in Xtalk-like languages (HyperCard, SuperCard, MetaCard, etc). The intro may be a little too compact for non-programmers but the natural language character of LiveCode makes it less daunting and LiveCode's flexibility makes it well worth the effort.Once through the familiarization section, the book takes off into the nuts and bolts of coding for mobile devices with LiveCode. The details are dealt with in a clear, concise manner with none of the common "fill in the missing pieces of code" parts that plague many other books. It focuses on three key apps: a web page data extractor (great for demonstrating internet connectivity and text handling), a jigsaw puzzle app (great for working with graphics) and a reminder app (great for working with time, location and notification features expected from today's apps). Once those are done, the book addresses how to get your app out of the development environment (i.e. stuck on your personal device) and into the real world including how to distribute to beta testers and app marketplaces.The only significant issue I have with the book is that it addresses the challenges of graphic controls for mobile devices (and in particular the iOS devices) with a tool called MobGui which is not a part of LiveCode. I'm not sure a LiveCode for Beginners book should rely so heavily on an extra tool that one must pay for. In addition, MobGui appears not been updated in quite a while and may not be the best choice for the task at hand. That said, using MobGui for the interface elements does allow the author to move beyond the frustrating subject of building controls and geometry management for mobile devices and on to the more important (in my mind) details of coding in LiveCode... the official subject of the book.All in all I believe this is an excellent book (and the only one!) for learning how easy it is to develop and deploy mobile apps using LiveCode

LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide: 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.

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