Signing up for programs, downloading files, using command lines all over the place, and patiently waiting for the Android emulator to launch—it could take the best part of a day to work through what we've covered in this chapter! Fortunately, you only have to go through it once.

In this chapter, we worked through a number of tasks that you have to do before you create a mobile app in LiveCode. We had to sign up as an iOS developer before we could download and install Xcode and iOS SDKs. We then downloaded and installed the Android SDK and configured LiveCode for devices and simulators.

We also covered some topics that will be useful once you are ready to upload a finished app. We showed you how to sign up for the Android Market and Amazon Appstore.

There will be a few more mundane things that we have to cover at the end of the book, but not for a while! Next up, we will start to play with some of the special abilities of mobile devices.