I recently had the opportunity to interview Bill Hankins, the creator of Litecode. I asked him to tell me all about this great little plugin for LiveCode!

What is Litecode?

Litecode is a Mobile Development Environment created with and based on LiveCode. Litecode can be used as a mobile standalone application to write and test Livecode code on your phone or tablet. Litecode users can write, edit, and test entire projects on a mobile device. Projects can be saved and reopened later for continued production. Litecode comes with an export stack that users can open in the LiveCode IDE to transfer their Litecode mobile work to their desktop LiveCode IDE for finalizing and exporting to standalone versions.

I recently finished the last touches on a new solution around spreadsheets.

Excel Library is already capable of great things with Excel such as creating new workbooks, worksheets, charts or defining a complex pivot table directly from LiveCode. The drawback is, it requires MS Excel on the device to work.

Not any more!

This is where the XLSX Lib comes in. It creates new xlsx files from scratch, which can be opened and used by MS Excel, Open Office, Google Sheets and even Numbers as well. If it can open xlsx files, it will be able to handle the files generated by XLSX Lib.