[OT-ish] an app I made…

[Colin Holgate]

I'm a big proponent of using the best tool for the job. That clashes somewhat with client requirements, they like to use the product that leads to the least amount of effort for the end user. In my day job that means that a lot of what I do is Flash stuff for web sites. Flash still isn't the best tool for some of what I do, I'd quite like to use Director more, and even Unity.

When it comes to mobile apps you can really use any tool you like, and that's a huge area for LiveCode to be used for. I'm even writing a book on using LiveCode for making mobile apps! However, LiveCode can't do everything, yet, and I was approached to make an app in LiveCode, that had features not well suited to it. I gather that other LiveCode experts were consulted, and they too thought that some of the features would be impossible to do in LiveCode.

So, using some of my daytime skills I made the app as a Flash app. It's live in the iOS App Store and the Amazon stores (including for Kindle Fire). It's not quite live in the Google Play store, they have a weird submission process that has caused delays. It'll be there one of these days.

The app is targeted at Education, with the ideal user being a youngster who wants to be entertained as they learn to read. It has a prominent placing in the Amazon store, in the education section at least, and it has a 5 start rating so far in the iOS store. Here are a couple of links:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/hi/2478842011?tag=peogeousd-20

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meet-heckerty/id514220257?mt=8

When it's in the Google Play store I'll post a link.