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I’m huge mobile development noob. I took a semester on it in college (which is  how I found out about Corona) Anyway. What I want to do with Corona is build a virtual receptionist for the office building. What we’re thinking:

Have a pedestal when you enter the building that has a wired in tablet (setup similar to Verizon Wireless) that runs this app when you start the tablet. Almost like a masking user interface. The app should do things like:

                 Track conference room schedules

                 Use Microsoft Lync (we have extra licenses to communicate with employees that they have a visitor

                 And show current news in the company/city/world?

Is this even possible? Thoughts/ideas? Thanks in advance either way.

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I don’t know what all is involved in talking to Microsoft Lync, but I would think the rest of it would certainly be doable.  As far as Lync goes, we support two different ways to talk to web servers and TCP/IP sockets.  But you may run into authentication issues with regards to any secure type communications (though we have quite a bit of support for it, but it might just be one of those edge cases…)

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Okay, cool. So, what would happen if we took Lync out of the equation? Is there anyway to send predetermined emails maybe?

Would you be able to tell me where I would start for a project like this?

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I can’t think of a good starting point.  Perhaps going through the networking sub folder of the SampleApps might get you started.  Look through the community code (http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/) there’s quite a bit of networking things in there.  As far as your interface the Corona University tutorials should get you started on building a UI. 

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I don’t know what all is involved in talking to Microsoft Lync, but I would think the rest of it would certainly be doable.  As far as Lync goes, we support two different ways to talk to web servers and TCP/IP sockets.  But you may run into authentication issues with regards to any secure type communications (though we have quite a bit of support for it, but it might just be one of those edge cases…)

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Okay, cool. So, what would happen if we took Lync out of the equation? Is there anyway to send predetermined emails maybe?

Would you be able to tell me where I would start for a project like this?

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I can’t think of a good starting point.  Perhaps going through the networking sub folder of the SampleApps might get you started.  Look through the community code (http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/) there’s quite a bit of networking things in there.  As far as your interface the Corona University tutorials should get you started on building a UI.