April Conference Web App Course Announced

Planning for our upcoming online 3 day conference event is continuing apace! We’re excited today to announce a day long course that will train you in building a Web App using LiveCode. This will build on the concepts introduced in our current Web Camp course, showing you how to use them in practice when building an actual app with our team. You don’t have to have attended Web Camp to benefit however, it will be a self contained course great for anyone wanting to build Web apps (or indeed any apps!) in LiveCode.

Building a Web App: LiveCode Dev Team.

On Day 1, Track 1, we will hold an all day course on the theme of Building a Web App from scratch. This will cover topics including:

• Overview design of the app – what do you need to think about from the getgo to create a really good Web App?
• Building the app ui and making it suitable for web. A discussion of what makes a good user interface and how to create that in LiveCode.
• Writing the app logic. Actually coding your app, in a way that works well for Web as well as other platforms LiveCode supports.
• Providing user authentication and login. Many Web apps need to allow a user to register, we’ll show you how this is done. 
• Wrapping a web element as a widget. Maybe you want to add something LiveCode doesn’t have natively, or you want a different look to an element than is provided. We’ll show you how to add eg an HTML slider or other web element, as a widget. 
• Storing per-user data. All apps need data. How do you handle this on the web?
• Integrating the app into its host webpage. You’ll learn how to do all sorts of smart things when your end user takes actions on the web page.
• Tweaking the app to be able to deploy and run on desktop and mobile as well as web. We’ll look at how to use your code base to deploy to multiple platforms without rewriting a bunch of code.

This course will be presented by our team experts on each of the topics. At the end of this course you should have a good grounding on what it takes to create a LiveCode app that can be deployed to the Web, as well as to other platforms. 

Check out the schedule here, and see what other goodies are lining up for you. Got at topic you’d like to share? You can still Apply to Speak.

If you haven’t yet signed up to the conference, you can do so here. We look forward to seeing you there!