Before we make our first mobile app…
by Joel Gerdeen, Colin Holgate
LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
- LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. LiveCode Fundamentals
- Background history and metaphors
- You do have LiveCode, don't you?
- Learning the lay of the land
- Time for action – it's a drag, but you'll like it!
- Time for action – making cards and navigating between them
- Making a simple calculator application
- Time for action – making the calculator buttons
- Other interface controls
- Debugging
- Summary
- 2. Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile
- iOS, Android, or both?
- Becoming an Android developer
- Becoming an iOS developer
- Before we make our first mobile app…
- Time for action – starting an Android Virtual Device
- Time for action – adding Kindle Fire to ADB
- Time for action – using the iOS simulator
- Appiness at last!
- Time for action – testing a simple stack in the simulators
- Time for action – testing a simple stack on devices
- Further reading
- Summary
- 3. Building User Interfaces
- Setting up a test bed mobile app
- Time for action – making the test bed stack
- Time for action – calling the native e-mail application
- Time for action – trying the test bed stack on devices
- Time for action – calling the native browser application
- The mobile-only date picker
- Time for action – displaying a date picker
- Time for action – loading pictures for a mobile device
- Making OS-styled buttons
- Time for action – using Photoshop to prepare button states
- MobGUI to the rescue!
- Time for action – getting started with MobGUI
- Time for action – using MobGUI to make a test bed app
- Time for action – using native controls from MobGUI
- Time for action – a simple code layout example
- Time for action – using the Geometry Manager to position buttons
- Resolution independence
- Summary
- 4. Using Remote Data and Media
- The stack structure
- Loading and saving external data
- Time for action – creating a data save stack
- Creating a web "scraper" app
- Time for action – setting up the tab navigation
- Time for action – adding the browser controls
- Time for action – making a links extraction function
- Time for action – adding the links card's init handler
- Time for action – setting up the Text card
- Time for action – extracting a list of media links
- Time for action – setting up the Media card scripts
- Time for action – setting up the Keepers card
- Summary
- 5. Making a Jigsaw Puzzle Application
- Image data format
- Misusing imageData
- Time for action – testing a getPixel function
- Time for action – making a map of the United States
- Time for action – making a racecourse
- Time for action – making a racecar
- Making a jigsaw puzzle
- Time for action – creating the pieces and choosing an image
- Time for action – transferring imageData
- Time for action – setting up touch events
- Summary
- 6. Making a Reminder Application
- Different types of reminders
- Timing of notifications
- Time for action – creating date and time pickers
- Where?
- Time for action – trying out native location tracking
- Information needed in a reminder
- Making the reminder app
- Time for action – creating the reminder app screens
- Time for action – adding stack-level functions
- Time for action – making the home card buttons work
- Time for action – making the location card work
- Time for action – taking in information about the reminder
- Summary
- 7. Deploying to Your Device
- A. Extending LiveCode
- Index
Now that the required SDKs are installed and LiveCode knows where they are, we can make a stack and test it in a simulator or on a physical device. We do, however, have to get the simulators and physical devices warmed up…
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