android descktop apps ?

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Is there a way to create desktop applications for android with corona ?

The kind of apps that runs on the background when the phone is opened.

For example:

  1. An app that shows a shader on the screen.

  2. An app that shows a new word with it’s explantion every day.

#2

You can make apks but I don’t believe you can make widgets with corona sdk free, you need corona enterprise for that.

#3

Can I make the two apps that I gave as exaples (or just one of them), if so how?

thanks in advance

#4

Yes

1.https://coronalabs.com/blog/2015/04/15/custom-shader-effects/

  1. you can write some Json data and store a bunch of words on device

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/json/index.html

https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/data/readWriteFiles/index.html

or you can use network request to get a word from a server. (https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/network/request.html)

#5

how can I make it so the app will be on my background when I open the phone ? sorry, I was’t clear before.

#6

There is no way to do this in the free version of corona. The user would have to open up an app. If you really need it to do this you might invest in corona enterprise or corona cards.

#7

You can make apks but I don’t believe you can make widgets with corona sdk free, you need corona enterprise for that.

#8

Can I make the two apps that I gave as exaples (or just one of them), if so how?

thanks in advance

#9

Yes

1.https://coronalabs.com/blog/2015/04/15/custom-shader-effects/

  1. you can write some Json data and store a bunch of words on device

https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/json/index.html

https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/data/readWriteFiles/index.html

or you can use network request to get a word from a server. (https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/network/request.html)

#10

how can I make it so the app will be on my background when I open the phone ? sorry, I was’t clear before.

#11

There is no way to do this in the free version of corona. The user would have to open up an app. If you really need it to do this you might invest in corona enterprise or corona cards.