Advice Please for Better Multi Media Support

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Looking for a route forward.  My company committed to Corona as the platform for a number of business apps.  So far the platform has delivered.  We have to create a number of modules to fill some of the gaps, but it works and the apps are popular.

We have reached a cross roads now as we need more support in the platform for multimedia support, specifically uploading of videos.

The in built API for for media support has a number of short comings which we have come across.

The question is what should we do: -

  1. Look at the Open Source Corona?

  2. Could a Plugin to replace the API Short comings
     

  3. Are they any other options?

I really want to try and stick with Corona if we can…

#2

You can always use Corona Native builds to get access to native APIs that the Simulator doesn’t support or work as expected. But that doesn’t help the overall product or the community.

Enhancing the core, but getting the open source and addressing the deficiency and submit a pull request to get the fixes in the core would obviously be the best route to go. If you’re adding new features that are not cross-platform, would bloat the core, or are beneficial to a smaller subset of the community, or it’s something you think developers would pay for, then a plugin would be the best route.

Rob

#3

You can always use Corona Native builds to get access to native APIs that the Simulator doesn’t support or work as expected. But that doesn’t help the overall product or the community.

Enhancing the core, but getting the open source and addressing the deficiency and submit a pull request to get the fixes in the core would obviously be the best route to go. If you’re adding new features that are not cross-platform, would bloat the core, or are beneficial to a smaller subset of the community, or it’s something you think developers would pay for, then a plugin would be the best route.

Rob