Hello everyone,
I started using Corona recently so having simply a doubt whether this platform is only for gaming or we can use it to develop some application other than gaming field.
With regards
Jyoti Singh
Hello Jyoti and welcome to the Corona Labs forums.
Corona SDK (and our other products) are based on working with OpenGL which means we are really good at putting images on the screen and moving them around an interacting with them. The classing use case for that is Games.
We have made widgets that work with OpenGL that are similar (and very customizable) that let you do non-game apps with Corona SDK. There is another layer of native.* API calls for things like webViews and text fields that due to our architecture sit above the Corona OpenGL layer and it can take a little extra work to craft these features in with your Corona display objects.
Native UI features are very specific to the platform they run on and they are very hard, if not impossible to implement in a cross-platform nature.
But it can be done. If you look at our Show Case page, you will see several examples of non-game apps done in Corona SDK. In addition to these, I know someone who built an interior decorating app. You snap a picture of your room and then you can change colors and such to see how the room would look other wise and countless other examples. We have a couple of sample projects you can look at too:
https://github.com/coronalabs-samples
There you will find a simple calculator app as an example of a Utility app. And a project called “Business App Sample”, which is a collection of things you could do. It demo’s RSS feeds to populate tableViews. Photo gallery activity, mapping (though our maps have limits), data entry, storage and retrieval and a couple of other things that can be used to get you started.
We are also really close to releasing an example Weather app. We do a good job talking to RESTful API’s to fetch and display data.
Now that said there are somethings that are going to be a challenge and others that are simply not going to be possible with Corona SDK. For instance, I would not attempt to build a spreadsheet with it.
So no, we are not just for games.
Rob
Check out the case studies
This is something I’m very interested in, too. The principle blocker being that rendering content stored as web content within an app requires the webview which is extremely limited in it’s control in Corona.
I hope corona fix the web view as well. While they are fixing it, they need to add windows(desktop). I personally use mac, but I think corona need add this if they truly want to enter desktop space.
There is only one vote for Windows WebView support in our feedback site. While I agree it’s needed for Windows, it’s hard to justify it when there are no feature requests for it.
Hello Jyoti and welcome to the Corona Labs forums.
Corona SDK (and our other products) are based on working with OpenGL which means we are really good at putting images on the screen and moving them around an interacting with them. The classing use case for that is Games.
We have made widgets that work with OpenGL that are similar (and very customizable) that let you do non-game apps with Corona SDK. There is another layer of native.* API calls for things like webViews and text fields that due to our architecture sit above the Corona OpenGL layer and it can take a little extra work to craft these features in with your Corona display objects.
Native UI features are very specific to the platform they run on and they are very hard, if not impossible to implement in a cross-platform nature.
But it can be done. If you look at our Show Case page, you will see several examples of non-game apps done in Corona SDK. In addition to these, I know someone who built an interior decorating app. You snap a picture of your room and then you can change colors and such to see how the room would look other wise and countless other examples. We have a couple of sample projects you can look at too:
https://github.com/coronalabs-samples
There you will find a simple calculator app as an example of a Utility app. And a project called “Business App Sample”, which is a collection of things you could do. It demo’s RSS feeds to populate tableViews. Photo gallery activity, mapping (though our maps have limits), data entry, storage and retrieval and a couple of other things that can be used to get you started.
We are also really close to releasing an example Weather app. We do a good job talking to RESTful API’s to fetch and display data.
Now that said there are somethings that are going to be a challenge and others that are simply not going to be possible with Corona SDK. For instance, I would not attempt to build a spreadsheet with it.
So no, we are not just for games.
Rob
Check out the case studies
This is something I’m very interested in, too. The principle blocker being that rendering content stored as web content within an app requires the webview which is extremely limited in it’s control in Corona.
I hope corona fix the web view as well. While they are fixing it, they need to add windows(desktop). I personally use mac, but I think corona need add this if they truly want to enter desktop space.
There is only one vote for Windows WebView support in our feedback site. While I agree it’s needed for Windows, it’s hard to justify it when there are no feature requests for it.