Newbie - Couple of Q's

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi All,

I wonder if anyone could help me with the querys below I’m thinking of writing a business app that will support a larger web based system.

It will include the following:

  1. Navigation Menus
  2. A Table of results (Table of results will be dynamiclly)
  3. Grab an image and GPS location and upload them to a web server.

My questions are:

  1. Are there any examples of business applications created?
    I have been looking at the samples I can find, but they mostly relate to games.

  2. following on from #1, My concern is that apple would want me to implement some of the standard ui for such an app?
    < is that correct?
    < what are my choices with this product?

  3. App Edition vs Game Addition - Is these a feature matrix somewhere?
    As I would like to know if there might be some elements in the game version that I might want to use in a business app?

Thanks in advance,
jason
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#2

Hi Jason,

  1. Look into the code samples section. There were some nice additions to it regarding a Slider, Toggle and Listview. http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/

  2. Apple wants you to create a consistant UI. You don’t have to use the default UI graphics, but it has to be consistant. How your app looks and also how to use your app. The best is to study their documents (best practise) regarding the user interface.

Anything that is not integrated via Corona’s native elements (textbox, textfield, keyboard, alertbox, webpopup) you need to emulate via graphics and your LUA code yourself. That is done in the samples I mentioned before.

  1. For an business app you won’t need the game addition. The game edition brings physics, OpenFeint and Spritesheets. I doubt that you will need that. Stay with the standard SDK.

Cheers
Michael

http://www.whiteskygames.com
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