21 July 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, we talked about COPPA compliance with AgeCheq Director of Game Developer Relations, Tyler Smith. AgeCheq makes a simple SDK for Corona so indie developers can create games for kids without having to worry about the headache of creating their own COPPA compliance ecosystem....
14 July 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, Dr. Brian Burton walked walk us through four code examples from his recently released Corona SDK book, "Learning Mobile Application and Game Development with Corona SDK". We'll also looked at code snippets from Corona's SampleCode folder....
07 July 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, Ed Maurina showed us how to automate the addition of commonly used variables to projects. We looked at displaying projects instantly across multiple devices using CoronaViewer and Dropbox for synchronization. We also explored two standalone iOS apps that enable Corona app development directly on a device with fewer keystrokes....
30 June 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, Kwik Developer, Alex Souza announced Kaboom, an exciting new way to create particle effects in Photoshop without code. Corona Ambassador, Greg Pugh showed off an example of creating a campfire scene using Kaboom. And, Corona Ambassador, Ed Maurina gave us tips on improving app performance, and shared the code and blog post responses he's created for forum questions....
23 June 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, Corona Ambassador, Chris Byerly walked us through the latest version of Coronium Cloud code. He's been hard at work adding user management, administrative tools, and enhanced push notification integration. We also had a round table discussion on Fire Phone along with some shared insights into whether Amazon's App Store does better for developers, compared to Apple and Google Play....
16 June 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, we shared community announcements, including updates to Composer GUI Beta, a caution about installing OSX 10.10 Beta with Corona, and new plugins for Amazon Ads and Chartboost. We also discussed 6 things Apple didn't tell us at WWDC14....
09 June 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, we discussed why Apple's rejecting apps that offer rewards for video views and social sharing. We also talked about Corona SDK support for Google's LiquidFun and walked through sample code to see how rigid bodies interact with fluid bodies. We also talked about Apple's new Swift programming language and how it compares to Lua and Python....
02 June 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, Corona Ambassador, Artist, and Children's Book Author, Greg Pugh showed us a variety of tools he's used for creating artwork for his apps. He also walked us through the process he uses to create custom art using Flash for his apps and interactive books....
26 May 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout we took a sneak peek at a beta version of Composer GUI. We explored a creative solution for implementing iOS calendar events in Corona, and we walked through example code for creating social sharing panels within our apps....
19 May 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout we talked with Corona Ambassadors, Jennifer Looper and Dr. Brian Burton about the importance of participating in hackathons. Both developers have extensive experience in the hackathon space and they shared Pro tips around what to expect, how to participate, and how to get the most out of every event....
