Universal App with differing content

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

I would like to build an app, not a game, which displays similar to the iOS Settings application. Specifically, I’d like to know how to have portrait and portraitUpsideDown on iPhone and all orientations on iPad while making use of the full screen resolution and real estate available on the device.

It looks to me like the config file won’t let this happen and that I’d have to build a pair of applications. Is this true?

If I’m wrong and it is possible, could someone provide a config file (and anything else one might need) to have a truly universal app which looks different on different devices, please?

Thanks,

Matt. [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 26448 reply_id: 326448[/import]

#2

I believe with a bit of work you could make this work though it would not be with a config file supporting different orientations, it would be listening for orientation changes and handling it all manually.

It would probably be easier to build two apps honestly - but not impossible to build one. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 26448 reply_id: 107401[/import]

#3

I really think this is a big shame. I honestly believe that Corona is ideally positioned to be an incredibly fast tool for creating apps and not just games. If this area could just be given the love it needs. There’s some really excellent apps which use the standard iOS style and they don’t look difficult to build, aside from the Obj-C element which is a massive blocker for so many developers. Me included unfortunately. [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 26448 reply_id: 107462[/import]