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Gideros is a complete framework you can use to develop rich, native and mobile applications and games with ease. Gideros Studio IDE and integrated Gideros SDK with more than 470 API functions help developers reduce development costs and increase productivity.

Here you’ll find Gideros Studio (IDE & SDK) related documents, such as tutorials, presentations, API docs, and more. Feel free to download and refer them.

Presentations

Slides showing a specific subject step by step.

Name Title Version Date added
Features and benefits This presentation gives a brief understanding of how Gideros Studio works, together with features and benefits of using an integrated IDE. 1.1 1 November, 2011
Installation & first code This presentation shows how to install Gideros Studio and prerequisites on a variety of platforms. 1.0 8 November, 2011

Reference Manual

The whole story.

Name Title Version Date added
Reference manual The “big guide” to programming in Gideros Studio. Start here to reach the API. 2011.12 7 February, 2012

Gideros Studio documents

Documents showing how a particular job can be done under Gideros Studio.

Name Title Version Date added
Getting started Your first step: Create your first project and run in Gideros Player. 2011.12 15 October, 2011
Deployment to device This document explains how to deploy your first project to iOS & Android devices. 2011.12 15 October, 2011
Classes in Gideros Lua itself does not support classes, but Gideros does. This document explains how to emulate OO programming and classes in Lua. 2011.12 15 October, 2011
Event system Events system is a mechanism in Gideros to help programmers handle responses. They allow to create interactive applications. 2011.12 15 October, 2011
File system This document explains how to reach files on the real device filesystem 2011.12 15 October, 2011
Automatic image resolution This document explains how you can work with different images to fit on the screen 2011.12 15 October, 2011
Automatic screen scaling/a> Automatic screen scaling functionality handles different kinds of mobile screens. 2011.12 15 October, 2011

Sample code

Code snippets or step by step tutorials from forum.

Name Title Version Date added
Code snippets Short code snippets for a particular use case or task. None None
Step by step tutorials More in depth, longer tutorials None None

Ready-to-use templates

Ebook and game templates for free use, from community members and Gideros Mobile.

Name Title Version Date added
Gideros game template Free Gideros game template 1.0 February 5, 2012
Gideros e-book template Free Gideros e-book template 1.0 February 4, 2012
Helicopter game template Very cool, full helicopter game using physics, sound, menu, game screen and more. 1.0 January 10, 2012
Jumping game template Free Gideros jumping platform game template 1.0 February 3, 2012
UIKit iOS plugin MHUIKit for Gideros Studio is a plugin for iOS that allows usage of UIView, UIButton, UITextField, UIAlertView, UIWebView, UIScrollView, UILabel, UISwitch, UISlider and UIToolbar 1.0 February 29, 2012