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Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

So this is a completely new concept for me. I have never even looked into it, and I am quite lost as where to start and if this can be done with Corona.

The EXTREMELY simple idea is I want to have an app that you open, it connects to a website or blog (such as tumblr) and displays a table for each individual post and tapping on the post title opens it up to view the text.

In the real world scenario, I literally need to display a title in a scrollable table, and tap the title, the text it displays with be 1 or 2 sentences at most!

Can this be done with something as simple as tumblr or face book, or do I need to do some crazy server stuff?

So the MAJOR area of need for me is connecting to the site, and displaying the data from the site. I have no idea how to do this and extensive searching through the forums have not provided an answer.

Any advise to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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#2

This should be able to be done, although you would need to write your own html parsing engine in LUA to accomplish it.
I don’t think there are any out there yet :slight_smile: [import]uid: 34945 topic_id: 9191 reply_id: 33694[/import]

#3

The closest thing I know of in example form might be the Promotion Library in the code exchange.

Taken directly from the code exchange page:

“The Promotion Library is a simple library to download news from a server and displaying it in a sliding window if the news was updated.”
Link here
http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/promotion-library

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