Corona Enterprise (Corona Native) is now free!

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#101

This news was very pleasing. I am an Android developer on Windows. When I met Corona a few months ago, I found it very great. But because native features were not free in it, I migrated to Libgdx. Now, I’ll be happier if you tell me when do you implement Windows-Android native setup?

#102

I’m a bit late to the party.

  1. Are there any changes/migration steps necessary when moving from Enterprise to Native?

  2. How are plugins added to the Native projects? Are there still plugin bundles available to download?

Thanks,

-Matthew

#103

The new version supports both old Enterprise style projects and new Native style projects. After installing Corona go to /Applications/Corona-vnum/Native.

You will find two programs to run there, one setups up the environment for Enterprise, the other for Native and I believe you can run both. New projects using the “App” template will be “native” based.

For iOS, you can run a build dialog in Xcode to download and install the plugins. See: https://coronalabs.com/blog/2017/07/06/using-plugins-in-corona-native-projects-ios/

We don’t have similar functionality for Android yet. There are multiple complexities. For now the best we can offer is a command line tool that will download them and then you have to hand copy them to your project and in some cases manually integrate them with Gradle. Hopefully we will have a documented path to doing this at some point in the near future.

Rob

#104

Any updates on the Android Native building? Is it possible to get the command line tool somewhere? I’d like to include updates to some plugins for our next patch. Wondering if this will be possible soon and if we should maybe hold back until we get the update.

Also, will it be possible to use specific versions of corona plugins with Native? Stay on older versions if needed for example.

Thanks,

-Matthew

#105

HI Matthew, can you email support and ask them for the information on downloading Android plugins for native builds.

Thanks

Rob

#106

I am a bit confused on the “totally free” part. I try to use the display.newSnapshot() function and get a warning that it requires a Pro (or higher) subscription. But I am not able to find any links to get the Pro (or higher) subscription…

What am I to do ?

#107

Please go to the preferences menu in the simulator and do a “Deauthorize and Quit”

And then login again. If that doesn’t fix it, please email support@coronalabs.com to get further assistance.

Rob