The trick with easy-to-use tools, such as LiveCode, is to create mobile apps that users think were created with the hard-to-use native tools, such as Xcode. You can achieve this because of LiveCode's ability to call upon native features and because you can make interfaces that look appropriate.

In this chapter, we covered several ways to achieve this goal by calling native OS features using simple LiveCode commands. We prepared images to be used for button states and made buttons that look OS-specific by adding these images. We also created controls that look like iOS native controls with MobGUI and laid out the interface with code, with the Geometry Manager.

So far, these have all been small test stacks to get us warmed up! Next, we're going to look at the general application structure to make a fully fleshed out utility application.