Roadmap Oct 25 (Scott Harrison edition)

Corona Marketplace Marketplace Announcements
#1

Hello,

It has been a while since a roadmap. 

here are all the plugins released since my last update

Pdf Image converter

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/pdf-image-converter

Like Button

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/like-button

Mapbox

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/mapbox

Account Kit

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/account-kit

Android Camera View

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/android-camera-view

Video Editor

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/video-editor

Deploy

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/deploy

A lot of those plugins do what the title says they do. But Deploy doesn’t. Deploy allows you to load Lua code from a script or lua string, which can allow you to download lua code from the internet and allow you to push updates without needing to go through apple or google. It is also free and you can enjoy this today along with the source code. By the way, it also supports encryption.

https://github.com/scottrules44/deploy-source

Before I talk about future plans and things, I just want to talk about future plugins. Current there are no plans to make more. I have busy with other projects. If you want to hire me to make a plugin you can ping at scotth.tech/contact

I am planning on speaking about Corona/Lua at a UF sec club on Nov 15. They do record sessions, I hope to share with forums when it gets shared. I am not a great speaker but I will do my best.

Also, I am working on a new web project which I calling (for now) Lua Host. My idea is to use the deploy plugin and Lua host to work together to allow you to push code updates via my web server. This is probably months out and still in concept phase ( which mean I may kill it off if I don’t like results). 

#2

Deploy

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/deploy

A lot of those plugins do what the title says they do. But Deploy doesn’t. Deploy allows you to load Lua code from a script or lua string, which can allow you to download lua code from the internet and allow you to push updates without needing to go through apple or google. It is also free and you can enjoy this today along with the source code. By the way, it also supports encryption.

https://github.com/scottrules44/deploy-source

This is amazing, Scott!  Thank you for making this available.  I looked at deploy.lua but i can’t tell exactly what encryption algorithm you are using.  What is it?

Good luck with your speech and I hope Lua Host works out – sounds amazing as well.

Best regards,

Tony

#3

About the Deploy plugin, isn’t running dynamic code forbid by Apple?

#4

Only “native code”( like c++, objective c, c, swift, etc), languages like Lua and Javascript are ok.

#5

That is good to know.  Corona should then also make available the dofile(), loadifle() and loadstring()  functions.

#6

It is custom, you can pass in 5 number to encrypt the data. The plugin is open sourced if you want to encrypt the data your self.

#7

Deploy

https://marketplace.coronalabs.com/plugin/deploy

A lot of those plugins do what the title says they do. But Deploy doesn’t. Deploy allows you to load Lua code from a script or lua string, which can allow you to download lua code from the internet and allow you to push updates without needing to go through apple or google. It is also free and you can enjoy this today along with the source code. By the way, it also supports encryption.

https://github.com/scottrules44/deploy-source

This is amazing, Scott!  Thank you for making this available.  I looked at deploy.lua but i can’t tell exactly what encryption algorithm you are using.  What is it?

Good luck with your speech and I hope Lua Host works out – sounds amazing as well.

Best regards,

Tony

#8

About the Deploy plugin, isn’t running dynamic code forbid by Apple?

#9

Only “native code”( like c++, objective c, c, swift, etc), languages like Lua and Javascript are ok.

#10

That is good to know.  Corona should then also make available the dofile(), loadifle() and loadstring()  functions.

#11

It is custom, you can pass in 5 number to encrypt the data. The plugin is open sourced if you want to encrypt the data your self.