I don't want to create the next best selling game - just a simple quiz app - so is Corona for me?

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#1

Hi Everyone,

I have been searching the internet for days trying to find a solution to my woes. Hopefully Corona is it, but before I spend too much time trying to figure it out for myself I thought I would be better asking for a straight answer. :slight_smile:

We run a hairdressing academy teaching students NVQ Level 2 and 3 in both hairstyling and barbering. One of the units in both qualifications that students often struggle with is choosing and selecting the correct hair colours to apply to their clients to achieve a certain result. This is due to the laws of colour, for example, if the client already has red hair and wants to be plum (or purple) the student needs to apply a blue based hair dye (as red and blue = purple).

To help with this I built an app a few years ago using a program called NeoBook. It allowed me (as a designer) to forget about the code and just get on with the design - it built my actions and code for me as I went along, or at least allowed me to choose ‘blocks of code’ to associate with an object.

In essence, this is what I made:

An input screen where the student could enter the starting colour, followed by an input screen where the student could enter the target colour (desired end result).

I then used the GUI to create code blocks such as IF…THEN…ELSE to process each of the user inputs, refer to an Access database table and process the calculation to deliver the end result.

Although I could read through and understand the code produced I would never have been able to write the code from scratch.

I have been tasked with reproducing this app for our students so that it runs on their iPads/iPhones and NeoBook is only for developing eBooks and Apps for Windows Destops.

Is Corona the tool I need to produce the above for Tablets/Phones? As the title says I am not looking to build the next best game, I only need to reproduce this one app.

If Corona isn’t the tool for me, could anyone recommend something that would be suitable?

Many thanks.
Chris [import]uid: 137286 topic_id: 34066 reply_id: 334066[/import]

#2

Corona could easily do this but coding is involved. So if you don’t want to or have time to learn to code then you would be better off asking someone to do the coding for you. [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 34066 reply_id: 135444[/import]

#3

I’d agree with jstrahan, Corona sounds pretty well suited for your task (but does require coding).

And given the power of a platform like corona, you could probably do some interesting things with your app, such as taking a picture of your clients hair, and then allowing the stylist to apply other colors on top (using alpha) to visualize the results before applying any real dyes to the client. (or showing the clients face with overlays of various hairstyles applied, so they can pick out a style they like). [import]uid: 79933 topic_id: 34066 reply_id: 135455[/import]

#4

Corona could easily do this but coding is involved. So if you don’t want to or have time to learn to code then you would be better off asking someone to do the coding for you. [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 34066 reply_id: 135444[/import]

#5

I’d agree with jstrahan, Corona sounds pretty well suited for your task (but does require coding).

And given the power of a platform like corona, you could probably do some interesting things with your app, such as taking a picture of your clients hair, and then allowing the stylist to apply other colors on top (using alpha) to visualize the results before applying any real dyes to the client. (or showing the clients face with overlays of various hairstyles applied, so they can pick out a style they like). [import]uid: 79933 topic_id: 34066 reply_id: 135455[/import]