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The Making of Piggy
Piggy Bank Assistant was recently published in the iOS App Store. This adorable Piggy Bank app will help you save the LiveCode way. Made by Apimac, this charming little app rewards you when you save, and becomes sad when you spend. Sort of like a virtual pet but focused on your money. I think I need this piggy. I asked Ivan Gobbo to tell me a little more about the making of Piggy Bank. Here's what he told me.
We are a software company that develop apps for OS X and iOS and sell all over the world. For creating our software, we mainly use Xcode and sometimes Xojo. A few months ago we heard of LiveCode, a development tool of which we read that it had a fascinating history and a bright future. So we decided to find out more before using it for our main applications.
We wanted to try it out in the field with a new project. The idea was to create an app that combined utility with fun and interactivity too. Trying out various ideas among our employees, during a meeting, we discovered that one of our employees in human resources, Francesca, wanted to have an app to keep track of the amount of money put in her piggy bank. She also wanted this app to be able to help her to reach her shopping goals. Therefore we decided to create Piggy Bank Assistant. This led us to explore LiveCode, which was new for us. In fact, we soon realized that it was not merely a tool for developing apps but a world in which one entered and remained fascinated, a world of projects, plans for the future, and a unique user community. Everyone is ready to help you, to offer you pieces of code and to recommend solutions.
Francesca and Piggy, the inspiration for the app Strip HTML Strip HTML Self Timer Self Timer What can I say? I think LiveCode will gradually increase its role in our projects because it allows you to go from idea to realization in a short time and thus to be on the market at the right time. But the part that most impressed us was the stability of the software created, combined with the readability of the code, which translates into reliable applications which are easy to maintain. This is an important issue not only for those of us who work with this tool every day, but for our users too who expect high levels of quality.
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