Hi Rob and Vlad;
We are one of the several Corona developers that derive a VERY GOOD proportion of income from our apps on Amazon devices.
I know you guys are swamped with a lot to think of at the moment. But could you please also think about this question – it relates to whether, going forward, there will be any way to “build” with older versions of Corona. Here is the reason for my question:
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Last November (18 Nov, 2019), in this thread, “Paid Plugins from Corona support: Chartboost, AdColony” ( https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/74770-paid-plugins-from-corona-support-chartboost-adcolony/? ), I pointed up an Amazon show-stopping problem.
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The problem I described in detail was that, on the 64-Bit Corona Builds, we could not make an Amazon APK that included any of the most-used advertising plugins. When including any single plugin, our apps launched with an erroneous “Error” message related to “Google Play Store” – when none of these plugins had any relation to Google Play. That error message halted/crashed our Amazon apps - in testing.
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On 18 Nov, 2019, Rob Miracle’s advice was: “If you’re going to target Amazon, you probably should be using a build before 2019.3490. Amazon is still 32-bit and I don’t know when we will get 64-bit builds working for Amazon. Rob”
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So, ever since that advice, the only way that our Amazon apps can be published and display any advertising is by building with a Corona Build version from May, 2019 (Corona Build #3476). We are doing this routinely now.
What do you guys think the situation on this will be when we get to offline builds? Will we be able to make Amazon builds with plugins? Or would we essentially be out of the Amazon app business because a key part of Amazon monetization would disappear?
Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
Steve