Corona Geek

20 June 2012

Hello all you groovy mobile developers! Today Amazon announced support for international sales in the U.K., Germany, Italy, and Spain. Since I haven't published an app in the Amazon Appstore yet, I wasn't even aware that these weren't already options, so tada! I am a registered developer though, so Amazon sent all their developers an email announcing the news. In the email they said, "You now have the ability to select the countries where you would like your apps to be sold and can set your list prices by marketplace." So far, I've submitted apps to the Google Play Marketplace (I...


Corona Geek

14 June 2012

When I first started using the Corona SDK in December of last year, I was eager to learn as much as possible about what the SDK could do and where it was headed. When a Dallas Corona SDK developers meetup was scheduled in the Dallas area, I jumped at the opportunity to talk with other developers and meet Walter Luh, Co-Founder of the company. During that meetup I met a lot of talented developers who were able to discuss the Corona SDK in-depth including Dr. Brian Burton, author of the book "Mobile App Development With Corona". As a college professor and app...


Corona Geek

07 June 2012

Recently I came across a great bit of Corona SDK sample code written by Adam Smith at iNSERT.CODE that really intrigued me. The code simulates the buoyancy of objects in water and it's very well written and extremely well commented. The code is a great example of how much you can accomplish with a relatively small amount of code using the Corona SDK. Even if you don't need to include this feature in your project it's worth exploring. So, I decided to reach out to the Adam to see if he would answer a few questions about his background and how he came to...


Corona Geek

25 May 2012

A friend of mine sent me a link to this article on Android fragmentation. The article includes a pretty interesting info-graphic that shows 3,997 different Android devices. These are the 3,997 different Android devices that OpenSignalMaps users experienced the app with. How many devices do iOS developers have to worry about?...


Corona Geek

11 May 2012

Yesterday OpenFeint sent out this email to the developer community. Welcome to the evolution of mobile social gaming! We are excited to announce that OpenFeint is now officially GREE, and soon we will be launching a brand new global SDK for all our developers....


Corona Geek

08 May 2012

Samsung recently announced their new Samsung Galaxy S III (S3) phone and while Samsung's marketing department will tell you it's all about nature and being human, hardware fans will tell you it's all about the specs, and the software crowd will tell you it's about the operating system, I think it's all about being creative....


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