Author: inna

This could be the year for RIM's rebirth. The previously struggling company made a splash with Tuesday's announcements: they're rebranding the company name to “BlackBerry,” hiring Alicia Keys as the new Global Creative Director, unveiling the BlackBerry 10 operating system, and announcing two new phones: the BlackBerry Z10, a touchscreen smartphone, and the Q10, a smartphone with a physical keyboard....

To celebrate the second issue of 10Finger’s CoronaPaper, Linda Ettehag writes on a brand-new physics discovery that will “wow” Corona developers. 10Fingers is offering CoronaPaper for free from January 31 – February 4, 2013! Don’t miss your chance to experience the latest and greatest Corona tutorials, app reviews, news on APIs, and more....

As the co-founder of Lamplighter Games, Andy Minkstein writes on developing this week's App of the Week winner, Vidburn. When first released, Vidburn was pegged the ‘Snapchat of video’ however the same day of Vidburn's launch, Snapshat added video functionality to their own app. Check out Andy's tips for building a video-based app in record time, and his experience working with Corona Enterprise. ...

Boolba Labs is a Russia-based game studio that's been using Corona SDK for over two years. In the winter of 2012, Boobla Labs' CTO, Anton Rutkevich, was invited to speak at Android MobileOptimized on his team's experience with cross-platform development using Corona SDK. At the event, Anton spoke to a room of budding developers on the benefits of Corona and his team's Corona-built apps and games. ...

The past year included a goldmine of incredible Corona-made apps and games. Each week, our team picked one great app from the bunch to recognize as the Corona App of the Week. Starting in June, we crowned one App of the Week winner with the App of the Month title, based on the community's vote. Each month, we witnessed hundreds of passionate game players, app users, and Corona community members cast their vote for the most deserving app....

As the App Store tops 775,000 apps, discoverability is getting tougher and tougher, especially for indie developers. To help address this issue, we’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Iddiction, a leading distribution and discovery platform for mobile apps. Iddiction works to promote and monetize awesome mobile content from talented indie developers and global game studios....