Hi Corona Team,
I have made my first app using corona, and its live now. I see corona feaured apps, can new games find a spot there?
also if u guys can give me a honest review on the app it would help me improve it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.outlook.fractals.Game_Final9
Thanks for all the support you had provided me for developing this.Its just a simple 2d puzzle
Regards,
Desiventure
Hi GUys,
Hope this question is posted in the right forum. can u guys pls take reply to my thread
Hi @Desiventure. First these forums are driven the community. When you say “Hey Corona team” or “Hey Rob” you are sending a message to hundreds of people who might respond to you that you don’t want to hear from them. For the question you’re asking: “Hey check out my app and offer suggestions on how I can make it better”, there are no better people than our other Corona Developers to make suggestions. They build apps and games every day.
That said, lets talk about your app. I downloaded it today and played it for a bit. You’ve done a good job with the graphics. The game play seems to be reasonable. I’m not sure how I feel about how you have to try and line things up, but perhaps after a few more levels I’ll get the idea on the best way to line things up. All games have a learning curve. I have a similar game on my iPhone that I play from time to time and frankly I just randomly try and destroy rows of things. There never was a clue on strategy on setting up future moves. Your game seems to have some strategy to it. I don’t think I can through strings of things together. I think that’s a good aspect of the game instead of recycling the ole “match-3” pattern. What I did not like was being asked for my contacts and photos/files when the app starts up? There isn’t any explanation why. It puts the app user on the defensive. Also on my Google Nexus 9, there are white bars down the side (same screen size as the iPad Air). If are looking for some instant fixes, the white bars and the prompts for contacts and file access would be two good things to fix. We support requesting permissions later on Android 6. Look at the camera app in the SampleCode to see how we manage permissions on Android 6 and earlier versions.
As far as featuring your app, I’m not sure what your expectations are from getting featured. It might generate a few downloads. We have a very narrow focused audience: Corona Developers. They are making their own apps. Our posts are really more “Hey this is cool, see what can be done in Corona” and apps really need to rise above the rest or have something that’s outstanding about them. Then you have to compete with every other app that gets submitted.
But before I can consider your app, you need to fill out this form and submit it:
https://coronalabs.com/community/share/
Rob
HI Rob,
Thanks a lot for your feedback. 
This is what i dint understand. what did u mean when u say being asked for my contacts and photos/files when the app starts up? it does not wait for any input from user right? it would just show the permissions used by this app right?
below is my permission in build settings. Guess i have to remove Get account.
usesPermissions = { "android.permission.INTERNET", "android.permission.ACCESS\_NETWORK\_STATE", "android.permission.ACCESS\_WIFI\_STATE", "android.permission.WRITE\_EXTERNAL\_STORAGE", "com.android.vending.BILLING", "com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE", ".permission.C2D\_MESSAGE", "android.permission.GET\_ACCOUNTS", "android.permission.RECEIVE\_BOOT\_COMPLETED" },
also when you say white bars down the side… i cant replicate them on the simulator. if possible you can send a screenshot from your phone so that i can check?. please ignore if its too much trouble.
As far as the white bar goes, try simulating with the iPad Air skin. See the attached image.
Android 6 doesn’t use the permissions in build.settings. That’s for Android 5 and earlier. Android 6 uses on-demand permissions.
Whatever you need “android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS” is probably triggering the prompt for access to the contacts. I’m guessing this is a push notifications requirement. The request for photos and files is probably due to “android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE”. What ever is trying to access that is probably triggering the prompt. For Android 5 and earlier, when people go to install the app they get a single prompt asking for all the permissions to be approved.
Look at the Camera sample app in CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Media/Camera it shows how to request permissions. If you let the user know what the permissions are for instead of letting Android provide their messaging you likely will have a better chance of the user agreeing to it.
Rob
Hi GUys,
Hope this question is posted in the right forum. can u guys pls take reply to my thread
Hi @Desiventure. First these forums are driven the community. When you say “Hey Corona team” or “Hey Rob” you are sending a message to hundreds of people who might respond to you that you don’t want to hear from them. For the question you’re asking: “Hey check out my app and offer suggestions on how I can make it better”, there are no better people than our other Corona Developers to make suggestions. They build apps and games every day.
That said, lets talk about your app. I downloaded it today and played it for a bit. You’ve done a good job with the graphics. The game play seems to be reasonable. I’m not sure how I feel about how you have to try and line things up, but perhaps after a few more levels I’ll get the idea on the best way to line things up. All games have a learning curve. I have a similar game on my iPhone that I play from time to time and frankly I just randomly try and destroy rows of things. There never was a clue on strategy on setting up future moves. Your game seems to have some strategy to it. I don’t think I can through strings of things together. I think that’s a good aspect of the game instead of recycling the ole “match-3” pattern. What I did not like was being asked for my contacts and photos/files when the app starts up? There isn’t any explanation why. It puts the app user on the defensive. Also on my Google Nexus 9, there are white bars down the side (same screen size as the iPad Air). If are looking for some instant fixes, the white bars and the prompts for contacts and file access would be two good things to fix. We support requesting permissions later on Android 6. Look at the camera app in the SampleCode to see how we manage permissions on Android 6 and earlier versions.
As far as featuring your app, I’m not sure what your expectations are from getting featured. It might generate a few downloads. We have a very narrow focused audience: Corona Developers. They are making their own apps. Our posts are really more “Hey this is cool, see what can be done in Corona” and apps really need to rise above the rest or have something that’s outstanding about them. Then you have to compete with every other app that gets submitted.
But before I can consider your app, you need to fill out this form and submit it:
https://coronalabs.com/community/share/
Rob
HI Rob,
Thanks a lot for your feedback.
This is what i dint understand. what did u mean when u say being asked for my contacts and photos/files when the app starts up? it does not wait for any input from user right? it would just show the permissions used by this app right?
below is my permission in build settings. Guess i have to remove Get account.
usesPermissions = { "android.permission.INTERNET", "android.permission.ACCESS\_NETWORK\_STATE", "android.permission.ACCESS\_WIFI\_STATE", "android.permission.WRITE\_EXTERNAL\_STORAGE", "com.android.vending.BILLING", "com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE", ".permission.C2D\_MESSAGE", "android.permission.GET\_ACCOUNTS", "android.permission.RECEIVE\_BOOT\_COMPLETED" },
also when you say white bars down the side… i cant replicate them on the simulator. if possible you can send a screenshot from your phone so that i can check?. please ignore if its too much trouble.
As far as the white bar goes, try simulating with the iPad Air skin. See the attached image.
Android 6 doesn’t use the permissions in build.settings. That’s for Android 5 and earlier. Android 6 uses on-demand permissions.
Whatever you need “android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS” is probably triggering the prompt for access to the contacts. I’m guessing this is a push notifications requirement. The request for photos and files is probably due to “android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE”. What ever is trying to access that is probably triggering the prompt. For Android 5 and earlier, when people go to install the app they get a single prompt asking for all the permissions to be approved.
Look at the Camera sample app in CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Media/Camera it shows how to request permissions. If you let the user know what the permissions are for instead of letting Android provide their messaging you likely will have a better chance of the user agreeing to it.
Rob