Newbie - Does Corona support all of iOS and Android UI controls?

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#1

Hi,

This is my first posting here and pardon me if my questions have already been answered.

I’m just jumping into the mobile programming paradigm to write business apps and I have been programming for more than 16 years in C#, Java, VBScript. I checked up lot of options to develop native apps for iOS and Android and was thinking of developing with MonoTouch (www.xamarin.com). Monotouch is way too expensive and I found Corona accidentally while searching for alternatives. Now comes my questions:

Is Corona SDK always for writing games and not for writing apps? I searched in google and most of the postings talk about gaming with Corona than doing apps.

I was checking MonoTouch and it is using XCode to build the interfaces using Interface Builder and write code in MonoTouch IDE. What I would like to know is whether Corona SDK with any available IDE support all of the iOS UI elements ((http://developer.apple.com/library/iOS/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/UIElementGuidelines/UIElementGuidelines.html)?

Also, does any of the available IDEs for Corona support drag and drop functionality for the controls? I would like to feel at home when using Corona with a recommended IDE as I do with Visual Studio on Windows or MonoTouch IDE on the Mac.

The same questions go with Android.

Please advice.

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#2

Corona SDK has a few native controls, but they are limited to text boxes, text fields and web overlays.

Controls that you are probably thinking of, like tableView, navBar, etc., Corona SDK is adding controls that look and behave like their native bretherin, but they are not native controls. Look at the “widget” api on the Api page.
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