Corona SDK Reviews

With Corona you dont need to beign from scratch, it provides a range of resources to assist you in building your app, such as customized code and graphics. This implies that you can develop your app swiftly and with reduced exertion.

Corona is great for creating apps. It may not be the best choice if you are looking to develop highly intricate and advanced applications.

With corona we can test our app throughout the development process. This allows us to address any issues beforehand ensuring an experience for others when you eventually share it. In a nutshell, Corona is a fantastic tool if you wwant to create apps and games quickly and have them work on lots of different devices. Its like a shortcut to app making success.

Corona SDK is most popular for developing apps and games.It is open source as well as cross platform which helps developers to save their time and money. The best part is that it provides real-time testing which reflects our changes immediately in results. It has 1000+ APIs and plugins which made it high performing development tool. It supports Lua scripting language which is light-weight is easy to go.

It is overall a great SDK but there are 2 downsides of it. First, it is not efficient for offline builds, for this we need premium version of it which can cost us a lot. Second, we must submit the code to the Corona server for compilation while building a project. We are unable to compile the code locally.

With the Corona SDK, one can become designer along with developer. Being a android developer, it has help me to develop and design app with the smooth flow and the availability of various feature make it more fruitful multimedia development tool. Also it has best documentation with all the tutorials and videos available for a beginner.

Corona SDK has become my primary tool for doing cross-platform app development. Supported platforms include iOS, Android, Windows, OSX, and OUYA with more in development.

Development time is significantly shorter. It is a stable platform (I have been using it for over 5 years).

I have been using Corona to teach mobile app development at the university level with great success and publish my own apps.

While Corona does have some limitations since it is not a native app. I have found that it can handle the majority of my app development needs.

Corona SDK provides a simple but very powerful Lua based development system. Paired with your editor of choice Corona forms a complete environment to allow anyone to create their own apps that will run on Apple iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad), Google Android, Kindle Fire, and Windows Phone devices.

The latest version now includes support for desktop (OSX and Windows) devices as well as Apple TV.

The first thing I liked in Corona, is easy-testing feature. Before that I would have to compile the project and test on the mobile phone/phones/tablets. In corona I was able to test the program on different platform right away. Second, and it is also kinda related to the first, that by simple editing of the configure file you can make your program cross-platform. And the third, but I guess it was the most important for me during that period - is a great community. You basically can search for almost any question and get already an answer. And if you don't find it right away you can ask and get an answer pretty quick.

I am not sure about current releases, but when I was doing game with Corona (2 years ago) there were no comparability with Linux. Also that time it was imposible to convert your code to HTML5 project for browser apps.

If you looking for a tool to create mobile app, and you don't want to worry a lot about how it would behave on different platforms Corona is a best choice. By using lua and having great API, Corona SDK allows you to concentrate on writing an app logic only, so you decrease the time you spending on making an app ready to go.

I was a freelancer and after solving few simple problems with Corona I got a job for developing a game like-Monopoly. By using Corona I was able to create draft product super quick (like two weeks), so afterwards there were just setting textures with high quality, adding new features and bug fixing.

We use Corona SDK to create several story books for both iOS and Android market. The best feature is that you just need to have one codebase to create an app.

What I dislike from Corona SDK is how the implement the sound system. Their sound technology need to be upgraded because we have a hard time make it right. Most of the time, the sound is lagging behind several milliseconds making it look weird.

Getting started with Corona is pretty easy. Plus, you can start getting dirty without spending any license money as Corona SDK is free to use (and to publish app with it). So, you can start prototyping your app. Plus, it uses LUA, the easiest language EVER!

We are in the business of making children apps for both iOS and Android and Corona SDK helped us prototype and iterate the development quickly. It also helped us manage smaller codebase as one codebase is enough to generate app into iOS and Android.

Corona SDK provides an easy to access framework for developing cross-platform mobile and now desktop apps. The fundamental tenants of the Lua language are easy to grasp and the SDK provides an extensive framework of support for commonly needed functions including powerful physics, image manipulation, audio and text handling. There is a strong supportive community of users ready to lend a hand and very responsive engineers who frequent the Corona Forums to help answer questions. Corona SDK is in constant Agile development with nearly daily builds available to those developers who want the latest in functionality. The Corona team is on top of the complex web of changing technical advances on mobile OSen and this shows in regular advances for support of the latest release of Android OS and iOS as well as newer deployment platforms such as Apple TV. Apps built with Corona can be deployed not only to the App Store and Google Play Store but also Amazon and NOOK.

Debugging in Corona is difficult as there is no integrated debugger and the only official debugging support is via a plug-in for a somewhat defunct text editor (Sublime.) What would be very simple to do in an IDE such as Eclipse becomes painful in Corona SDK. Not having a table inspector also makes it a challenge as the fundamental tenant of the host language - Lua - is the use of tables. Also very problematic is using Corona SDK to handle video as a content type - you cannot see videos when testing in the Corona Simulator and functional support for video content is quite limited. I find the Corona Composer - a visual timeline editor component - to be of limited value and somewhat buggy.

Read the regularly maintained documentation carefully. Be careful about reading blog posts to learn about Corona features because they change frequently enough that a blog post more than 6 months old is probably out of date or just wrong. Use the Daily Builds (or at least regularly read the build release notes) because the SDK is regularly advanced in a way that will be useful to most developers and generally, these builds are quite stable.

Our company has released several cross-platform apps using Corona SDK. We have leveraged support for multiple app stores to further generate revenue from apps that might have historically only been released to the App Store and Google Play Store.

Beauty of corona is its simple API, although i was new to lua i was able to pick it up in couple of hours. The api itself was so simple that i was able to make prototypes really fast. The tool itself was built with developers in mind, it is code first meaning "no daunting configurations or clunky IDEs that you have to get acquainted with.". All you need to get started with corona sdk is a text editor.

It is truely cross platform with single code base. You dont have to have any experience in Android studio or Xcode to port it to IOS or Android, all the heavy lifting is done by the tool.

This SDK offers many usefull APIs that can help you quickly boots your development in mobile. Especially useful if you are making a mobile game. Its community is huge so that you are provided many tutorials.

Cost is still high and do not support android 2.x

I'm making a fishing game for mobile, this sdk help me solve the cross platform issues

- Less coding.

- It's Physics engine is very good.

- Build for a lot of platforms like Android, IOS and Windows phone 8.

- Recommended for 2D Games and eBooks Apps.