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This week we discuss the release notes from previous Corona SDK builds, answer some more newbie questions, talk about the proper way to free up memory when working with objects, take a look at the Corona Project Manager as a time saving development tool, share some device news, and close with a discussion on using JSON in the Corona SDK API....

According to the rumor sites iPhone 5, or whatever it will be officially called, is set to be announced soon with a taller screen that will support another row of icons. For consumers this will mean they'll have access to more apps on their home screen and more viewable real-estate for playing games and getting things done, but what will it mean to mobile developers who use the Corona SDK to produce their cross platform mobile apps? As the MacRumors mock-up video below shows, it probably won't mean much initially. Existing Corona apps will likely function as they do today, with the...

Last night I received an email from the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Team. They wanted to let me know that as a Mobile App Distribution Developer, I can now add promotional images to my apps. Apparently their internal marketing team uses promotional images in featured placements to highlight apps, and they'll be using these "creative assets" in more places, so they want you to participate. If you're a mobile developer who publishes their apps in the Amazon Marketplace, you'll need to use the dimensions 1024 x 500 pixels for your promotional images and provide them in PNG or JPG format. If you...