Corona SDK

Today, we're happy to announce that an alpha version of tvOS (Apple TV) is available, starting in daily build 2015.2765. Alpha vs Beta Corona's support for tvOS is currently in an alpha state. In a nutshell, this means we have proven that Corona can work on tvOS. Concretely, the 'PewPew' demo sample works, but almost no testing has been done beyond that. We've learned it's generally a bad idea to release things too early. As a result, we normally choose to delay things until they reach Beta-level maturity. However, we felt it was important to give you an opportunity to play with tvOS/Apple TV...

Today, we are shipping a new public release (2015.2731) for Corona SDK, Corona Enterprise, and CoronaCards. A major theme for this year was new platforms. With this release, we spent a lot of time in the plumbing, so that we could have a solid foundation to support Mac Apps and Win32 Apps (currently in beta). Here are some highlights on what's new in this release: OS X and Windows Desktop App builds (beta). iOS device builds now target iOS 9.0 SDK. Workflow/productivity improvements to device build dialog on OS X Simulator (see figure below) Windows: Added basic support for native TextField and TextBox. Manual texture loading/management via...

More good news for Facebook integration. Coinciding with the recent beta release of Facebook-v4 on Android, we've launched the iOS version of the Facebook v4 plugin! The iOS version does come with a couple caveats to be aware of: iOS 6 is not supported with this plugin. This is due to Facebook dropping iOS 6 support with version 4+ of their SDK. iOS 9 is supported with a couple additional setup steps detailed here. Improvements In addition to iOS, we've done another Facebook SDK update to get you the latest fixes from them. The iOS version of Facebook-v4 targets Facebook SDK 4.5.1. and the Android version...