New to Corona

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hi. I’m new in this app world. I have a questions and i hope someone can help me.

  1. I was thinking about building an app that connects to an website with a promt form for login and password and after that it will enter the site and there i could download pdf,word and excel files to show in the mobile. Is this possible to do wih Corona?

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#2

One more question… Do i need Apple Developer License ? [import]uid: 89014 topic_id: 16163 reply_id: 60148[/import]

#3

Is it possible to read a pdf file from a website in your phhone?

Sorry for all the questions … i have just started reading about lua and Corona and i wanted to start something out. [import]uid: 89014 topic_id: 16163 reply_id: 60153[/import]

#4

Hi Rickard,

I can’t really speak to the web interface stuff that Corona SDK supports; I mean, it’s definitely a game SDK but there is a bit of web stuff here and there.

  1. You need an Apple developer license in order to publish to the Apple App store or (I think) to build an app to test locally. So basically, yes, you need the license unless you’re only building for Android or are fine just testing on your PC/Mac for now.

  2. PDF, word…excel…most of that sounds like stuff Google Docs can read. But they already have their own “app” front end. Making an app to interpret those file formats sounds incredibly difficult so I’m guessing all Corona could do would be the website connection and front end linking to the files - you would need Google Docs or whatever to actually display them.

I don’t really have a good idea of how to start though, save to look for web references in the Corona API docs or by looking through user submitted code here… [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 16163 reply_id: 60403[/import]

#5

ok… I was hoping Corona could work to websites to… Maybe it’s more work with it, or? If anyone can guide me im learning fast. It’s not that i want a whole website in the phone , i wan’t to make a choice what file i want to open in my phone. Like a listbox/dropdown box with all files that are on the site. The site is already there so i wan’t to connect to that site and choose the file and read it. I don’t think that’s so hard but i need someone to guide me in this.
Hope someone can push me in the right direction… [import]uid: 89014 topic_id: 16163 reply_id: 60600[/import]

#6

Making a list/dropdown and having links is definitely doable. It’s the “opening in a readable format” part that seems much more difficult. It’s one thing if you can already read the files using Safari and just want a fancier front-end. It’s another if you need a code interpreter for those formats.

Anyway, the best place to start is definitely the Network section of the API docs… [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 16163 reply_id: 60616[/import]

#7

i understand that. I will look deeper in the API and see if i find something that can help me… Thx for the tip. [import]uid: 89014 topic_id: 16163 reply_id: 60767[/import]