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LiveCode Mobile Development Cookbook
LiveCode is a programming language that helps you create apps for multiple platforms and has emerged as one of the premier development environments and languages for creating mobile applications. Programming tasks and concepts are expertly handled with a recipe schema in this book, making access to the information you want readily available.
This book is chock-full of helpful recipes that quickly solve key tasks when using LiveCode for mobile development. It serves as a significant reference tool for LiveCode mobile developers, beginners, novices, and experts alike. It will help you learn how to create user interfaces, use loops and timers, take control of text, implement social media components to your apps, and more.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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November 4, 2014
As there are not many books on Livecode for someone who is interested programming cross platform apps I am always eager to check all that is published. I am very pleased I did. Although the book focusses on mobile development you will learn a lot about the language itself also.
Livecode Mobile Development Cookbook is a well written and well organized book. In 10 chapters will see most aspects you will need to make a mobile app, be it android or ios. Each chapter has several recipes you can follow step by step to learn a new skill.
In the first 2 chapters you will see some basics like setting up your mobile environment. Then you go to chapters focussing on loops, timers, text-management , communications and data structures. Chapters you certainly can use even if you do not want to make apps but regular desktop software.
Next some chapters dedicated on the appears of your app with special reference to a third party add-on named Mobgui by Splash21 and Animation Engine by Derbrill.
You end up learning miscellaneous functions including number functions, opening web pages, taking snapshots to name but a few.
One minor point is the book has a reference to an outdated Mobgui version. The author could have talked about the new version which is available since January.
Livecode Mobile Development Cookbook is a well written and well organized book. In 10 chapters will see most aspects you will need to make a mobile app, be it android or ios. Each chapter has several recipes you can follow step by step to learn a new skill.
In the first 2 chapters you will see some basics like setting up your mobile environment. Then you go to chapters focussing on loops, timers, text-management , communications and data structures. Chapters you certainly can use even if you do not want to make apps but regular desktop software.
Next some chapters dedicated on the appears of your app with special reference to a third party add-on named Mobgui by Splash21 and Animation Engine by Derbrill.
You end up learning miscellaneous functions including number functions, opening web pages, taking snapshots to name but a few.
One minor point is the book has a reference to an outdated Mobgui version. The author could have talked about the new version which is available since January.
November 5, 2014
Just like it says on the Tin. Its a cook book for cooking up mobiles apps.
We needed to develop apps for iOS and Android and this along with Livecode let us do this in a single environment,
This Book quickly gets to the point in setting up the development environment and walked us through that fairly easily.
We really found the section on MobGui pluggin very helpful to streamline the whole development process. Even though this book covers a bit older version on MobGui and Livecode its self it did give us the jump start that we needed to get our app well on its way.
We needed to develop apps for iOS and Android and this along with Livecode let us do this in a single environment,
This Book quickly gets to the point in setting up the development environment and walked us through that fairly easily.
We really found the section on MobGui pluggin very helpful to streamline the whole development process. Even though this book covers a bit older version on MobGui and Livecode its self it did give us the jump start that we needed to get our app well on its way.
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