15 December 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout we talked with the developers of Fart Watch, a soon to be favorite app that’s being developed for the anticipated launch of Apple Watch. We learned what the developers think of WatchKit, what features they plan to include in their app, and where they think the future of wearables is headed....
08 December 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, Corona Ambassador, Ed Maurina walked us through a bit of vector math to answer a question from the forums about rotating an object around a center point using transition.to and Coronium Developer, Chris Byerly walked us through a demo of Coronium Sockets, which gives you the realtime power of Coronium GS without the game layer....
01 December 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout we had fun shuffling items in LUA tables. We looked at prebuilt widget themes that dress up your apps, and we explored using variable arguments with functions....
24 November 2014
This week Corona Ambassador, Ed Maurina, walked us through three specific JSON use cases where the oddities of saving and loading data using JSON can leave you scratching your head. We also discussed, grant writing for app development, Windows Phone 8 tips, and a brand new Apple Watch fart app that promises to blow you away....
17 November 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout we discussed some of the hidden psychology and creative game mechanics used in the wildly successful Clash of Clans game. We also looked at how to encode urls for use with Corona’s network library and we looked at how Corona simplifies the use of JSON to save and load important game data....
10 November 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout we discussed selling apps in China and why you might consider attracting downloads in one country over another. We looked at how to randomly spawn enemies in a game and how to get your apps labeled as “Optimized” for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the Apple App Store....
03 November 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout we walked through code for creating animated counters and we explored the concepts around Simple Content Scaling versus Corona's new Adaptive Content Scaling that was introduced in daily build 2460....
27 October 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout Greg Pugh shares his experience with getting his Fire TV game working on Android TV. Sergey Lerg shows us how to edit manifest file settings after building for Android, and we explored several Corona game template resources....
20 October 2014
Join this week's Corona Geek Hangout to get a first look at creating apps and games for Windows Phone 8 using CoronaCards and Corona Ambassador Sergey Lerg shares a solution for creating dynamic masks....
13 October 2014
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, Corona Ambassador Ed Maurina shared texture memory management tips for freeing up texture memory when you have to display and retain many hundreds to thousands of images on and off-screen. Also Corona Ambassador Sergey Lerg shared his config.lua solution for scaling content to fit the most common screen sizes, including iPhone 6 and 6 Plus....
