I’m attracted to the idea of using Corona to develop an android application 10x sooner, however I want to build a biz application not a game. Is this even advisable, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks!
Give us a mini spec of features that you would want to have in your app (be specific) and we’ll answer.
You can make any kind of App with Corona, but without knowing the exact features you want in your app, we ca’t advise you on difficulty and/or suitability.
I’ve been making a business app that allows the user to input data, store that data and display that data in a tableview.
The app does also include a “hamburger” menu aka side-slideoutmenu and since roaminggamer helped me yesterday also a sort feature for the data provided by the user. It scales incredibly well on phones, phablets, tablets because of Corona’s scaling!
Some native elements are missing but the widget library does a decent job in providing replacements.
This is my first business app done in Corona, I did make 2 games with Corona earlier though. But I think that it’s safe to say that the learning curve is nowhere near native development or crossplatform tools like Xamarin.
But like roaminggamer said, be sure to check whether Corona provides you all the tools you need. You can check the docs for that! Apps that require to run in the background when the app hasn’t opened yet, like facebook messenger, is not supported. That’s probably the biggest drawback to Corona SDK.
Well, I have done a business app with Corona before and it works fine. The app included phone call functionality, sending SMS which is going to be replaced with notification system using OneSignal plugin in a further build, Google Maps integration which I handled with the REST API and they all work fine at the moment.
Still, you should tell us some of the things that you’re going to use so we can tell you if that’s possible with Corona.
I have used corona for a long time. I can tell you corona is easy to code. But making business app could be very painful.
The biggest complain I have is the native objects ie text field,maps etc. They don’t look good. Download the Business app that Rob written in Github. See how clunky it is. The transition between scenes are not good because it uses hide and show method for text field,s maps etc. For business App I’ve moved to Facebook’s React Native. I have tried PhoneGap, Ionic and Corona … all failed to make true native business app. I’m loving React Native. I believe corona is built for making gaming app in mind. You can still make business app as long as there are no TextFields, Maps etc. Table View in Corona is crazy when you’ve lots of item. Fixing Table’s cell height is another nightmare in corona. These are the known issues/limitations for the last few years I have noticed and nothing changed. I’m glad I’ve forced myself to learn React Native. I have a business app which downloaded more then 50,000. It was a great success I made 7K from Google Adwords. I had only login screens which had native objects that’s it. Rest are read only. If I had a form or more user input … It would have been ugly app.
Give us a mini spec of features that you would want to have in your app (be specific) and we’ll answer.
You can make any kind of App with Corona, but without knowing the exact features you want in your app, we ca’t advise you on difficulty and/or suitability.
I’ve been making a business app that allows the user to input data, store that data and display that data in a tableview.
The app does also include a “hamburger” menu aka side-slideoutmenu and since roaminggamer helped me yesterday also a sort feature for the data provided by the user. It scales incredibly well on phones, phablets, tablets because of Corona’s scaling!
Some native elements are missing but the widget library does a decent job in providing replacements.
This is my first business app done in Corona, I did make 2 games with Corona earlier though. But I think that it’s safe to say that the learning curve is nowhere near native development or crossplatform tools like Xamarin.
But like roaminggamer said, be sure to check whether Corona provides you all the tools you need. You can check the docs for that! Apps that require to run in the background when the app hasn’t opened yet, like facebook messenger, is not supported. That’s probably the biggest drawback to Corona SDK.
Well, I have done a business app with Corona before and it works fine. The app included phone call functionality, sending SMS which is going to be replaced with notification system using OneSignal plugin in a further build, Google Maps integration which I handled with the REST API and they all work fine at the moment.
Still, you should tell us some of the things that you’re going to use so we can tell you if that’s possible with Corona.
I have used corona for a long time. I can tell you corona is easy to code. But making business app could be very painful.
The biggest complain I have is the native objects ie text field,maps etc. They don’t look good. Download the Business app that Rob written in Github. See how clunky it is. The transition between scenes are not good because it uses hide and show method for text field,s maps etc. For business App I’ve moved to Facebook’s React Native. I have tried PhoneGap, Ionic and Corona … all failed to make true native business app. I’m loving React Native. I believe corona is built for making gaming app in mind. You can still make business app as long as there are no TextFields, Maps etc. Table View in Corona is crazy when you’ve lots of item. Fixing Table’s cell height is another nightmare in corona. These are the known issues/limitations for the last few years I have noticed and nothing changed. I’m glad I’ve forced myself to learn React Native. I have a business app which downloaded more then 50,000. It was a great success I made 7K from Google Adwords. I had only login screens which had native objects that’s it. Rest are read only. If I had a form or more user input … It would have been ugly app.