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Copy this repo to get a leg up creating tiny, low-maintenance, cross-platform
apps that you can make changes to right on a phone or tablet.
It comes bundled with a few optional goodies:
* Support for tap-to-pan and pinch-to-zoom gestures over an infinite 2D
  surface for arbitrary graphics and UI.
* A tiny widget library for quickly creating arbitrary UI elements.
  [Here's an example of the kinds of things you can add to the global variable `widgets`.](https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/665231/a-sprite-editor-in-100-lines-of-code)
* A typographic scale for scaling the font size of text in visually pleasing
  increments.
Tap the 'edit' button and then poke around the 'load' menu to learn more.
This repo is an example of a [Freewheeling App](http://akkartik.name/freewheeling),
designed above all to be easy to run, easy to modify and easy to share.
## Getting started
Install [LÖVE](https://love2d.org). It's just a 5MB download, open-source and
extremely well-behaved.
[Run the app using LÖVE.](https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Running_Games)
## Hacking
You can edit the app and UI right on your device. However, there are some
gotchas to be aware of when editing such apps on a phone:

* If you upgrade LÖVE you lose all your local apps and their saved settings.
  This includes code changes. It's hard to get code changes out due to mobile
  restrictions. I can't come up with an alternative to copy-paste. This
  imposes a strict limit on the number of changes I'm willing to make to a
  large app on my phone.
* If you upgrade such apps after making local changes to them, you might see
  strange errors. Local changes are written to an overlay directory, whereas
  upgrades modify the app in place. The two locations create lots of
  opportunity for conflicts to arise.
  To mitigate this issue, such apps by default list local changes in the
  output editor every time they run. That will hopefully act as a reminder.
  There's also some helpers for deleting local changes in the 'scratch' page.

This repo is an example of a [Freewheeling App](http://akkartik.name/freewheeling),
designed above all to be easy to run, easy to modify and easy to share.