Instructional developers may choose from numerous app development tools and technologies, such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, C++, Objective C, LiveCode, MoSync Reload, XCode, and Software Development Kits for Android, iOS, and Kindle Fire. I developed the Rembrandt App pictured below in LiveCode and created instructional screencasts of the development process in order to help novice instructional technologists learn to create an app. LiveCode is exceptionally well suited to introduce instructional developers to app development. LiveCode has a visual interface, which enables developers to drag and drop icons in order to create an app. In addition, LiveCode offers a contextual programming interface that displays a code window for each object. Consequently, novice developers using LiveCode do not need to know the syntactically correct structure of an object oriented program in order to create an app. In LiveCode, when an instructional developer wants a button to take the learner to the instructional presentation or activity on the next card, the LiveCode developer simply enters go to the next card in the code window for the button. Moreover, app development in LiveCode is greatly enhanced by the feature for quickly switching between edit mode and test mode.
