Scotland-based RunRev Ltd. announced on Wednesday the launch of its crowdfunding campaign to raise $395,000 so it can bring beauty and clarity of the LiveCode language to the web. Adding the ability to deploy LiveCode apps straight to HTML5 ensure that no area of app creation remains inaccessible to this popular and easy-to-use open source language.
LiveCode already deploys to iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and server platforms. Web development means that a LiveCode app can run virtually anywhere from a single source code base. LiveCode for HTML5 will be capable of building interactive educational content, dashboards, simulations, sale tools, database front ends, or any of many other types of application.
Product manager of LiveCode, Ben Beaumont stated, “LiveCode is great but we know what still needs to be done and we are working [around] the clock to make sure that every part of app creation is smooth, beautiful and cross platform. Adding HTML5 web delivery to be created in parallel with our existing projects completes the LiveCode we want to make and the LiveCode you want to use.”
This campaign will enable the company to port the LiveCode platform to native web technologies. The result will be the ability to deploy a LiveCode app to any modern browser. It will allow a fully faithful representation of an application within the browser environment. It will use HTML5, so it will not require a browser plugin. By delivering the app in a browser, the end user does not have to install any software to use the app. The app will be platform agnostic.
Key benefits include:
- Fully featured app delivered over the web
- Deploy to any modern browser
- Platform agnostic apps
- No plugin
- An iterative, rapid development environment for apps on the web
- Try out building apps for the web without having to learn Javascript or Flash
- Teach with LiveCode and ALL kids can show their apps to their parents by opening up a link to their project in a browser
Given LiveCode’s rapidly growing adoption in education – around a third of schools in Scotland are now using the program to teach with – this is another major area which becomes available to students and teachers everywhere.
LiveCode customers are very excited about the prospect of web deployment in LiveCode. Altuit, Inc.’s Chipp Walters noted, “We had a stalled project, which had been under developed for around eight months. I was able to replicate mostly all of the functionalities of the app (and then some) in less than ten days of coding in LiveCode. Amazing tool. I would love to be able to do a similar thing using LiveCode to deploy to HTML5!”
Last year, LiveCode successfully ran one of the top UK campaigns on Kickstarter, earning almost half a million pounds to take LiveCode Open Source. Building on the success from this campaign, the makers of LiveCode now want to add this “missing piece” to its lineup.
CEO of LiveCode Kevin Miller added, “This is the last remaining goal that did not get funded last year. We’re ready to take it on now, with most of the previous project under our belts, and we know that 85% of our customers are ready too. They told us in a survey that the one thing they want more than any other in HTML5 development. So that’s what we’re doing.”
Based in Edinburg, Scotland, RunRev has a vision that everyone can code. It makes the open source LiveCode platform for building native mobile, desktop and server applications. The visual workflow allows the user to develop apps live, while the natural language syntax is powerful and uniquely accessible. Commercial successes include both SMEs and Fortune 500 companies. LiveCode apps have grossed over $100 million and include #1 best sellers, enterprise business systems, games and productivity tools.
The company is committed to promoting digital literacy – schools using the platform have seen a doubling of uptake for their CS courses. In 2013, RunRev began an exciting initiative to provide an open source version of the LiveCode software. The first version of this, LiveCode community, launched in April 2013.
Since its launch on Wednesday, the LiveCode’s campaign has raised $26,411 from 71 backers. It will run for 28 more days.
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