Windows phone and Corona

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I’ve noticed that apps can now be developed using corona and I was wondering, What further integrations will be made with Windows/Microsoft? Can we use Visual Studios as a development environment and Corona as a debugging tool so they work together?

#2

Hi Matthew,

I’m sure someone will be correct me if I’m wrong, as I’ve only done one winphone project.

The project is indeed build with visual studio and from what I’ve seen it looks fairly easy to bridge Lua and c# if you need to, however you aren’t able to debug your Lua project as you would with other Lua specific editors. You can see your Lua print statements in the debug window though.

Basically your Lua project is just rendered on an Open GL canvass in a WinPhone environment.

So my advice (with limited WinPhone exposure), is to get your project up and running, debugged and ready for release, using the normal corona environment, then port it using the advice here:

https://docs.coronalabs.com/coronacards/wp8/portapp.html

and here by Scott:

http://scottadelman.com/2014/12/01/lessons-learned-bringing-my-corona-apps-to-window-phone/

Doug

#3

Thanks for your reply, I’m going to look into it further. I’ll post here what I find :slight_smile:

#4

Hi Matthew,

I’m sure someone will be correct me if I’m wrong, as I’ve only done one winphone project.

The project is indeed build with visual studio and from what I’ve seen it looks fairly easy to bridge Lua and c# if you need to, however you aren’t able to debug your Lua project as you would with other Lua specific editors. You can see your Lua print statements in the debug window though.

Basically your Lua project is just rendered on an Open GL canvass in a WinPhone environment.

So my advice (with limited WinPhone exposure), is to get your project up and running, debugged and ready for release, using the normal corona environment, then port it using the advice here:

https://docs.coronalabs.com/coronacards/wp8/portapp.html

and here by Scott:

http://scottadelman.com/2014/12/01/lessons-learned-bringing-my-corona-apps-to-window-phone/

Doug

#5

Thanks for your reply, I’m going to look into it further. I’ll post here what I find :slight_smile: