Mobile-Look

[DevBoyLars]

Hi there,
just to be sure:

Is it right, that there's still no way, plugin or whatever to get the native look on a Android-Device?

So how should I build a business App for people who wants the known look on their devices?

For an iPhone I can use tmControls.

Please don't tell me, I've to switch over to another language/IDE just to build a quite normal looking App for Android and for iOS

It's bad enough that I've to build 4 different cards just for the iPhones (4,5,6,6+) to get no borders or geometric deformations of the controls (which auto-scale would produce).

And I still don't know how to handle all the Android screen resolutions x__x

This is sooooo much better in Xamarin. But coding in C# is a bit harder to learn.

The look of an App is so important to users.

And I can't wait until somewhere in 2015 for LiveCode 8 and widgets/themes

Anyone any idea?!

[newtronsols]

That xamarin does look good for $25/m. I wish Livecode could match it feature for feature - Livecode is so much easier for 'normal' people to understand. I also think Livecode should look at the subscription or even a '1, 2, 3 month-commercial use' model - as 1-off payments tend to put people off paying out such a chunk of money for something they may use to build just one app.

[DevBoyLars]

For sure, LiveCode is much easier, maybe the easiest way - but useless for professional business until basic-things like native mobile-look works.

So anybody out there with a working solution to get native Android-Look in a LiveCode App?

[jacque]

Until themes are ready, you need to make your own controls with images and graphics. That's what TMControls does.

[[-hh]]

That's what TMControls does.

... or some of the wonderful "little stacks" by Bernd ('bn'), posted in this forum or in 'User Samples'.

[Simon]

HI DevBoyLars,
Are you are talking about an app that runs in landscape and portrait for screen resolutions?
That would explain your displeasure with liveCode.

You know it doesn't take that much to code your own, not much math involved.
You don't even have to be as brilliant in maths as -hh to do it. (face it -hh, no one here knows math like you do)

Simon

[[-hh]]

(face it -hh, no one here knows math like you do)

Simon, what a condesending impertinence against all other LC users (fortunately this time not by me). Or do you mean with "here" your single post?

Simon, you and others (dixie, SparkOut, Klaus — to name a few — also posted controls, what would add up to a big library. How can we find these that are not in 'User stacks'? You all wrote too much posts ...)

[DevBoyLars]

HI DevBoyLars,
Are you are talking about an app that runs in landscape and portrait for screen resolutions?
That would explain your displeasure with liveCode.

You know it doesn't take that much to code your own, not much math involved.
You don't even have to be as brilliant in maths as -hh to do it. (face it -hh, no one here knows math like you do)

Simon

Hi Simon,
no no - I mean just a landscape App and the problem with different screen-sizes/resolutions like iPhone 4 and iPhone 5.

You can't scale up a iPhone4-card to an iPhone 5 screen. The result: borders oder deformations (exactFit). Both are not good, if your App got's native look with native looking controls.

"...code your own..." <- my own what?

[Simon]

"...code your own..." <- my own what?

Re-sizing script, for the 2 iphones it's even easier because only 1 dimension changes, so it's just control locations. Android of course is all over the place.
"resizeStack" is always fired at the start of the application so you don't even have to check.

Simon, you and others (dixie, SparkOut, Klaus — to name a few — also posted controls, what would add up to a big library. How can we find these that are not in 'User stacks'? You all wrote too much posts ...)

Yes, I wish there was a way, Bernd's are some of the best but impossible to find.

Simon

[DevBoyLars]

What does Bernd's scripts exactly do? Reposition everything on the card at the start of the App?

[Simon]

Reposition everything on the card at the start of the App?

Sorry, was just talking in general, I don't think Bernd has a re-sizing script... Yet(?)

I suppose you've already seen my attempt?

Simon

[DevBoyLars]

What attempt do you mean?