Tersus: Guestbook [version 2.0.5]

Guestbook [version 2.0.5]Date: Sep 20, 2014Tags:Android,iPhoneGuestbook App This tutorial uses an old version of Tersus - here is a newer versionIn this tutorial we'll show how to easily create a simple iPhone/Android application that allows you to save and display the details and pictures people you meet.Development StagesThe tutorial is comprised of 5 stages, each containing a detailed explanation and screenshots:

Stage 1 - Creating the application

Stage 2 - Opening a form to record visitor details

Stage 3 - Taking a picture

Stage 4 - Saving visitor details and picture

Stage 5 - Displaying the saved data (guestbook)

Stage 1 - Creating the application

Launch the Tersus Studio, version 2.0.5 (on Windows - Tersus Visual Programming Platform; on Mac - Tersus). If this is the first time you are using the studio, you will see first a Welcome screen, which you should close.

Create a new Tersus application "Guestbook":

Select File -> New Tersus Project
Project name: Guestbook
Template: Native Mobile Application
Click Finish (a new Tersus project is created, and you see the top level diagram of the application, which contains a single screen Mobile View).

On the right side of the Studio you can see the Palette, which contains the building blocks we will shortly use to build our application. On the left side you see the Repository, which contains all the application components.

Double click Mobile View to zoom into it.

Add a "page": Right click Mobile View and select Add Element -> Page (our application will be a simple one, consisting of a single page, but it is also possible to create applications with multiple pages and allow the user to navigate between them).

Rename the page: Right click Page 1, select Rename, type Visitors (instead of Page 1), and press Finish.

Similarly, rename the main page button: Zoom (double click) into Visitors, then zoom into Header, and rename Button to New.

Our applications doesn't contain much yet, but we can already run it. Save the application and press the launch button in the upper toolbar (

). The application will start within your browser, in a screen simulating an iPhone:

While you can use Firefox and Internet Explorer for testing, it is recommneded that you switch to a browser based on webkit, such as Safari, Chrome and the mobile browsers, which provide a closer experience to the actual native application. This will become an imperative in stage 5 which requires access to a client-side database access.
Switching is as easy as openning the webkit browser and copying the url from the original browser. You can also change the defaul browser opened by the Studio via Window > Preferences > General > Web Browser.Stage 2 - Opening a form to record visitor details See Also:

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