Building an App with livecode

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AJPhoenix
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Building an App with livecode

Post by AJPhoenix » Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:13 am

Apart from doing educational apps which I plan to churn out, I want to do a side project to build a communications app with livecode, is it possible to create an app similar to whatsapp and viber on livecode, viber, being a bit more advanced and would use a whole lot more server resources, but something along the lines of a more advanced whatsapp. Please let me know.

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Re: Building an App with livecode

Post by Simon » Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:23 am

Here is the "Chat" lesson:
http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4 ... ng-sockets
But beware sockets are not yet supported for mobile devices.

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Re: Building an App with livecode

Post by dave_probertGA6e24 » Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:24 am

To do a full blown multi user, anywhere in the world, dynamic chat application is a large task that will require the development of a server-side aspect to handle logins and route messages.

The sound part (recording and playback of voice over IP) is not something that the basic LiveCode stuff can handle as far as I know. You are very likely going to need an extension to handle that.

At this point in time LiveCode is much more suited to the dev of business/educational Apps and 2D games/animations - we can only hope this will change once people start playing with the open sources later.

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