26 June 2013
Wednesday FAQs: Display Text Objects
It's Wednesday and time for another frequently asked questions (FAQs) session. Here are some FAQs about display text objects....
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24 June 2013
Corona Weekly Update: Fixing bugs
While we work on lots of features that make mobile app development easier, I want to highlight all the bug fixing that's been going on in parallel. We've been very vigilant about regressions introduced in daily builds, but if there was one eye sore in our bugbase it was the bugs in the widget framework. We have attacked them with renewed vigor. ...
24 June 2013
Corona Geek #44 – Creating App Video Trailers Using Videopixie
This week we hung out with Thomas Escourrou to discuss app promotion using video trailers. Thomas recently launched Videopixie, an online marketplace that let's you hire talented video professionals to create your promotional videos. Thomas shared some great insights into video creation....
24 June 2013
App of the Week: Foresee
Foresee, by Borderleap, helps you plan your outdoor activities by intelligently comparing weather data with your preferred conditions. It is also a beautiful app that shows the power of Corona for utilities and business apps. Just launched, it has already hit the #3 paid Productivity app spot!...
21 June 2013
Update on Corona Cloud
Fifteen years ago, Apple made a tough decision to cancel the Newton, Apple's first foray into handheld computing. There was a lot of promise in the individual parts, but they never came together to something great, like they ultimately did with the iPhone. After long deliberation, we've come to feel the same way about Corona Cloud. We aimed high but like the Newton, Corona Cloud in its current form has been a disappointment. While there were islands of potential, the ultimate execution of the product did not meet our standards. As a result, we will be shutting down Corona Cloud on...
20 June 2013
Promotion: The Corona SDK Summer Blowout
We have a great promotion to celebrate summer! Buy Corona SDK Pro, get 2 free extra months and 2 free third party tools! Read on to learn more....
20 June 2013
Guest Piece: Grow Your App with Carrot
Pat Wilson, Carrot’s CEO, is responsible for business development and maintenance of all client SDKs. During his tenure with GarageGames, Pat was responsible for creating the next-gen lighting system for the Torque Engine, was the Console Lead (where he was responsible for shipping more than five titles), and published the paper "Light Pre-Pass Renderer: Using the CIE Luv Color Space, ShaderX7." When he is not fine-tuning SDKs for clients, he can be found rocking with the "Legion of Everblight," playing "Civilization V," or beating his head against a chess board. Carrot is a Corona Plugin partner and is available...
20 June 2013
App Marketing Tips from Eric Kinkead, Creator of Questlord
In May, Eric Kinkead gave an excellent talk on app marketing to the Dallas Corona SDK Meetup Group. Eric has had great success with his game Questlord, which is a turn-based Role Playing Game (RPG) in the classic style of the legendary Computer Role Playing Games that defined the genre. Eric shared both his successes and mistakes with marketing Questlord and we got it all on video....
19 June 2013
Hangout Highlights: Super Memory Meter
During Monday's Hangout Ed Maurina showed off a new memory monitoring tool that show realtime information about device memory, display memory, and frame per second while your app is running. The memory meter can be added to your projects with two lines of code and it comes with full documentation....
17 June 2013
Corona Weekly Update: iOS7 Beta, Text alignment, Facebook
Time for a quick update on your favorite mobile app development platform. Last week, Apple announced iOS7 Beta at WWDC. A lot of cool stuff was shown. The interesting thing is that a lot of the "flat" UI that was demonstrated was exactly the kind of thing we saw some of you already creating using Corona's graphics system. ...
