Extending the interactive welcome BMI app with HealthKit

by Monte Goulding on June 2, 2016 2 comments

By now many of you will have completed the new interactive tutorial for LiveCode 8. If you haven’t done that yet, you might like to go and complete it before continuing on here.

By the end of the tutorial you should have an app that looks something like the image below. If you’re like me and get excited by pancake printers it’s probably telling you something different to the image below but let’s not worry about that just now… the point is you should have an app that uses a web service to calculate BMI and charts it.

Today I’m introducing a new external for HealthKit called mergHK. With mergHK you can read and write to the HealthStore and therefore improve the integration of your health app with the array of other apps that users use to manage their health data.

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Monte GouldingExtending the interactive welcome BMI app with HealthKit

Map widget coming to LiveCode

by Steven Crighton on February 22, 2016 3 comments

mergMK is a LiveCode MapKit external that adds a map control which supports showing user location with heading, adding annotation pins and polylines. Create stunning interactive maps with ease. Important: The Map Kit framework uses Google services to provide map data pre-iOS 6. Use of specific classes of this framework (and their associated interfaces) binds you to the Google Maps/Google Earth API terms of service.

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Steven CrightonMap widget coming to LiveCode

Merging with mergEXT

by Kevin Miller on February 18, 2016 5 comments

Today we are delighted to announce a very exciting acquisition for LiveCode: we have purchased the full suite of the invaluable mergEXT externals for iOS. These will shortly be included with your Indy or Business license purchase. We will also be hiring the well known creator of these externals and LiveCode Guru Monte Goulding, to work for us full time. Over time our team will work with Monte to turn them into integrated widgets that work across more platforms, in LiveCode 8.

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Kevin MillerMerging with mergEXT