Taxi Booking App similar to UBER in corona ? Should I use corona ?

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hey All , 

I am planning to Develop a large scale app ( Taxi Booking App), Should I Use Corona. Will it be feasible to use the 3rd party API?

Please suggest.

#2

This is hard to answer because we don’t know much about the API, but if its a REST based API and it outputs a well known format like JSON (preferably) or XML, and can be gotten to with HTTP GET and POST requests then most likely.

There could be authentication problems that would have to be solved. But in general, network.request() can fetch that data.

Your bigger issue might be using our native.newMapView() since you can only add pins to it. You can’t draw anything on top of it. But you could use Google’s JavaScript maps inside a webView if you need to do more than pins.

Rob

#3

This is hard to answer because we don’t know much about the API, but if its a REST based API and it outputs a well known format like JSON (preferably) or XML, and can be gotten to with HTTP GET and POST requests then most likely.

There could be authentication problems that would have to be solved. But in general, network.request() can fetch that data.

Your bigger issue might be using our native.newMapView() since you can only add pins to it. You can’t draw anything on top of it. But you could use Google’s JavaScript maps inside a webView if you need to do more than pins.

Rob