Some quick questions

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hi everyone, I just have a few quick questions before writing a full app in corona and getting a license:

-Are there many major bugs getting looked at? for example, I’ve just put a test app on m phone just consisting of a single graphic, and when i press the ‘home’ button my volume keys on the phone control media rather than ring volume until i force close the app in the background. I’m just wondering if this is a known issue and if there are many others like it; I just think it wouldn’t look good if I’m having to update my app for SDK-related bugfixes coming through

-Is there any support for in-app advertising? my provider gives a choice of either java code or XML to display ads, and I’m just wondering if there’s a way of supplying this code to an app?

Other than that I think it looks great. I coded my previous app through Java and am hoping this SDK would save me a lot of time, aside from a slightly inflated appsize I’m just trying to assess any further downsides [import]uid: 71799 topic_id: 11690 reply_id: 311690[/import]

#2

As far as your first question, it’s not a bug. I’m guessing you don’t have any code in your app to handle os events. Unless you have code to close your app when the user exits out of it then it will continue to run in the background. Check out the OS library docs here:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/reference/os-library
And here are two related forum posts:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2011/05/03/android-device-back-button-causing-errors-directors-class-game-application
http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2011/05/04/android-hardware-buttons
There is no direct support for in app ads for Android (there is for iOS). I’ve read forum posts about how to get it to work with Corona’s “Network and Web Services” API’s but I myself don’t know how (try doing a search in the Android forum). [import]uid: 27965 topic_id: 11690 reply_id: 42513[/import]

#3

Ahhh thanks, nah it was simply just displaying a graphic for test, cheers!

I was thinking of loading a web ad and including that in my app somehow, might investigate it more, just working to some tutorials now… [import]uid: 71799 topic_id: 11690 reply_id: 42516[/import]