Hi
I’m just moving into iOS development and started of by using HTML5, Xcode and PhoneGap - can anyone tell me the advantages of using Corona?
Thanks!
Mark
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The main difference between corona and Phonegap is performance, with Corona u have strong performance with a real cross platform technology (it doesn’t work on BlackBerry but trust me that on iOS and Android performance are super!).
Then if you love OOP with Lua you can do that, with JS you have a simulate OOP (from framework like PureMVC, Backbone, Ext JS and so on).
Everything is more easier with Corona and you have only to think which is the main goal of your application, with Phonegap you’ll fine many issues between platforms and it’s not true that you can create one code for all platforms! [import]uid: 104326 topic_id: 26472 reply_id: 114933[/import]
I’ve played around with phone gap and wasn’t super thrilled. For a lot of apps, it’s enough. For the apps I want to create(specifically games) it’s not enough. Furthermore, as mezzalab said, it’s not a true code once scenario… Phonegap is better than porting everything over from java to objectivec, but not as nice as Corona where I can really and truly code once(minus some platform specific things!) [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 26472 reply_id: 114943[/import]