Hello!
I am currently building an application that may potentially rely upon URL requests to retrieve data for some of my application’s content. I was wondering if the Corona SDK supports multi-threading?
It would be useful to keep one thread dedicated to the retrieval of web data, and another dedicated to UI responsiveness.
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Well internally things happen in multiple threads, but Lua, the language behind Corona SDK doesn’t have any explicit thread controls that I’ve seen.
However it is an event driven system and network downloads happen asynchronously in the background while your app moves along doing its thing. A call back function triggers when the network request is complete, interrupting your app to process the response.
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The closest thing that you can get to threading in Lua, after all the limitations as people call are not with Corona but with Lua.
So, Lua can offer threading with the help of Co-routines. Having said that it is different than having true multi-threading, it is co-operative threading.
cheers,
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Thank you for your responses.
In that case, is there any sample code I could look at involving co-routines?
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Not directly to what you were after, however if you want, you can have a read on co-routines here
cheers,
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