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#21

mRoberti wrote:

Heck yeah, I JUST ran into that issue today! Stupid AddressBook, mocking
me. In its finery. I’d love to be able to select multiple contacts with
checkboxes, and then return all selected contacts as a table!!

You see it mR… , it should really be called a “Contact Plugin”.

When you actually start to work with it and see the potential, “weak” comes to mind.

Nail

#22

This is a problem with a number of API elements as well as Corona Labs plugins. They implement something half-baked, get us all excited and then leave us waiting for the rest for ages… Quick examples off the top of my head : 

  • mapView API - numerous issues - no buttons on bubbles etc.
  • Zip plugin - no password
  • webView - poor orientation support
  • Addressbook - issue outlined above + no Android support
  • QuickLook - IOS only.
  • Widgets - oh well. not even going to touch that one… 
  • camera textures - no front camera support

One can only wish Corona Labs would not chase new pastures every other week but actually try and deliver quality API & Plugins that we can depend on. I don’t think we should be asked to submit feature requests for half baked stuff which should have never seen the light of day in the form they were delivered with promises for more features to come later. Really getting tired of this problem.

Anyways, not trying to take the thread off topic but you sure hit a sore spot… 

#23

ksan wrote:

Addressbook - issue outlined above + no Android support

OMG, forgot to mention that gigantic HOLE,  lack of Android support!

Frustrating is an understatement.

Nail

#24

How about a plugin that allows uploading of binary files?  Probably Corona’s worst failing… Just do a search of the forums and you’ll see everybody wants one…

#25

Amazon GameCircle

#26

I almost forgot! NEXTPEER! I am not sure if that possible using a plugin but it will make a lot of sense since Nextpeer has already a lot of palyers that are familiar with the system. It will also solve the chicken/egg issue with other multiplayer APi since you need a lot of people in the network so your game get more successful.

Hope it can happen!

Mo

#27

How about FitBit? http://dev.fitbit.com/

#28

Would like a StartApp plugin.

#29

We are listening to all of these requests.

Thanks for those who contributed so far. :slight_smile:

We are going to leave it open for about a month, to gather as many requests as possible.

Cheers.

#30

I would like to mention one more time (especially for the map plugin), that our company would be ready to pay for a complete feature set map.

#31

+1. I had enough dealing with the builtin mapView. 

#32

We could do this, but we don’t want to step on Corona’s toes. If tons of people wanted this, and Corona had other priorities and were happy for us to make our own, then sure.

I’m curious as to how much stuff you guys believe is missing from the mapview. Just trying to get a sense on what guys are after.

#33

For me the missing capabilities are : 

  1. listener for pin/marker tap (exists now but is unstable/unreliable)
  2. separate listener for a bubble on top of marker tap
  3. method to show/hide bubble
  4. ability to insert icon and/or button inside bubble. 
  5. So the bubble listener should respond to overall taps in the bubble while a separate listener should respond to the icon/button inside the bubble. 
  6. More consistent map tap behavior across IOS & Android. Currently Android bubbles don’t disappear unless you tap X on them while IOS markers disappear when you tap on another marker or an empty spot on the map etc. If I had wishlist #3 I could make Android markers disappear when I get a listener call for a new marker.

I’m sure you could put in a lot more bells & whistles using direct access to native map api but for my current app the items listed above are causing me the most grief. I would of course prefer CL to fix the mapView implementation but I don’t hold my hopes high on that. 

@nmichaud, how about you? I bet most of the above will apply to your project as well. Anything else you identified as a need?

#34

I agree with everything mentionned by @ksan.

I would add on top of that the following:

Get the current zoom factor (very important when restoring a map view)

Get the center position of the map (very important when restoring a map view)

Control the pin shadow and drop pin animation (in our case we don’t want this and we have no control for it with Corona)

Ability to add/remove Polyline

This is a quick list of the most important things we need. We would be happy to give you a complete doc if you need one.

thanks

Nicolas

#35

Current map plugin missing:

Showing the label of the pins at all times, NOT just when one clicks on it in a speech bubble…Plus what everyone else said above! :slight_smile:

-Mario

#36

Bluetooth?

#37

Applovin.

#38

Tapjoy! 
 

#39

Congratulations on your launch. As for other plugins,

my #1 would probably a mapping plugin which offers more native features compared to the Corona SDK built-in mapView object. Not sure if Corona Labs will ever add features like buttons inside marker bubbles etc so this would be a great add-on for me but I can see how you may not want to invest time into this on off chance that Corona eventually decide to improve their current mapView implementation. 

my #2 is a Barcoding plugin. I bet this would sell well too as it has been requested a lot over the years on these forums. 

I’m sure I’ll have more along the way. Thank you very much for considering these requests.

#40

OMG can you make plugins based on existing C libs? The work would be half way done for you! Nothing super fancy, but like:

  • hexmap generators!
  • roguelike map generators!
  • libnoise library!
  • terrain generators (ASCII or simple bitmap heightmap stuff)!

ZOMG!!! My mind’s going nuts I might need to reach out to you on the side for some of these! :slight_smile:

-Mario