Left Brain Media has developed an iOS app using LiveCode that is so good I just have to share it with you.

HIV and Your Heart was co-developed by the American Heart Association and the American Academy of HIV Medicine.  “HIV and Your Heart exists to help people living with HIV make positive changes in life for better heart health and overall wellness” they say.  

Having HIV increases your risk for heart disease.  This informative app has over 90 minutes of positive, uplifting videos, from personal stories to advice from leading physicians, to help those living with HIV enjoy a long and healthy life.  You can interact with the app’s planning tool to set wellness goals and the built in tracking tool lets you follow the steps you need to take to reach those goals.

One of my favourite features of the app is how the user can chose to share the information via facebook, twitter or youtube and engage with others interested in or affected by HIV/AIDS.  Alternatively, the app has a full suite of confidentiality features; the desktop icon is just labelled ‘Your Heart’ and users can password protect the information if the wish to.

“This is a perfect example of how mobile apps are becoming part of everyday life.” says LiveCode Product Manager, Benjamin Beaumont.  

Mobile computing is one of the best ways for communities to share experiences, knowledge and ideas; the American Heart Association and the American Academy for HIV Medicine have done a brilliant job doing just that with this wonderfully instructive and interactive app.  LiveCode are proud of the small part we have played in its development.

HIV and Your Heart is a free app available to download from iTunes now.   

Do you have a made with LiveCode app you’re proud of?  Send it to us so that we can blog about it!  

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LiveCode revolutionized development with its easy to use English-like language and rapid, compile-free workflow. Now one of RunRev’s long-standing customers is bringing that same fast, easy and effective approach to how you communicate online. 

Since 2003 Blue Mango Learning Systems have used LiveCode to build great visual communication tools, which in turn help their clients create and deliver fantastic documentation. (The RunRev lessons portal, for example, is built using Blue Mango’s flagship product ScreenSteps and ScreenSteps Live and our customers have always been extremely happy with its performance.)

But effective visual communication is not just for documentation.  Using pictures in your daily communications means you spend less time explaining things.  Clarify is Blue Mango’s product that saves you time by organizing, clarifying and focusing your communications.

How Clarify Works

 

Capture images

Capture screenshots, import graphics or add photos. Capture multiple images to create clear communications.

 

                                           

Turn them into communications

Add annotations and text to your images.  

Annotations include:

– Arrows

– Rectangles

– Oval

– Highlight

– Sequence tools

– Text annotations

– Blur

 

Share online or via email

 

It is easy to share your communications online via clarify-it.com (a free sharing service offered by Blue Mango), Dropbox, Evernote, or by email.

 

 

Built with LiveCode

We are really proud that Clarify was built using LiveCode.  Both RunRev and Blue Mango share a philosophy.  Blue Mango tells us that to communicate well we must:

– Be organized
– Be brief
– Be clear

Well, the same has always been true for programming and developing apps.

Stay Organized

LiveCode’s clear process of ‘cards’ and ‘stacks’ keeps your programming organized and structured. 

 

Learn more about Cards and Stacks here

 

Be Brief

Supercharge your workflow. Make changes in real time. With LiveCode your application is always running, so any changes you make are seen live. This lets you create Apps and adapt to changing requirements in record time.

                                           The Traditional Development Cycle. With each debugging
                                           you need to run the cycle again – slowing down your                                                                                                          development. 

                                           With LiveCode’s compile free cycle your chnages happen
                                           in real time.  No more waiting, no more delays. 

Be Clear

Writing in LiveCode is not like using other languages.  We use an English-like programming language so unlike other tools there is no arcane symbols, no difficult short hand, no complex syntax.

Your code is readable and understandable – even months after you’re written it.

Why choose LiveCode?

I asked Trevor DeVore, Clarify Developer and Blue Mango Director of Technology, why LiveCode was the perfect tool to use when developing programmes of this kind.  The reason, he told me, is becuase LiveCode is so versatile.

“Clarify has been released for both Mac and Windows. I need to be able to share as much code as possible between the two platforms if I’m going to be able to provide a quality product for our customers at release as well as going forward. Being able to use 98% of the code on both platforms without modification makes this feasible.

In addition, the ability to instantly test Clarify on Mac and Windows during development without any need to compile allows me to quickly iterate over features and fix bugs.”

– Trevor DeVore, Blue Mango Learning Systems

Clarify is available now for purchase on the Mac App Store.  Check out this great LiveCode-built app!    

 

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