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GameViewPoint
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February 12, 2012
Question

Advantages over Corona?

  • February 12, 2012
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I'm currently debating which platform to use for mobile development. I've been a Flash game dev for many years, so my instincts are to go with AIR, but I hear good things about Corona, so I was wondering if anyone here has experience with using Corona and whether one platform has certain advantages over the other?

Thanks for any advice.

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boat5
Inspiring
February 13, 2012

@tarentola

you can  suspend your app on exit, you just have to set that in the descriptor.

iPad1 can also be targeted... i do read a good number of complaints about performance, i have never used one but i cant imagine it to be any worse than an older android phone. (i hope i don't have to eat those words)

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tarentola
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February 13, 2012

@boat5

thank you!

i posted a question few days ago about this and haven't got an answer. so i thought it can't be done...

i was wondering what other keys can be set through the xml. Apple has many UI, CF etc keys

performance is very poor on iPad 1

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tarentola
Known Participant
February 12, 2012

Corona is a great SDK, i've been using it for almost two years

Lua is small and powerful, and garbage collection is automatic (well almost)

Corona has features that AIR misses right now. you can do more things

but, it always depends on what kind of apps you have in mind

if for example you want to manipulate bitmaps, Corona is not a choice

if you want to target iPad1 or kill the app on suspend, AIR is not a choice

i'm new to AIR, using it for about a week

from what i've seen the garbage collection is poor

the memory usage doesn't drop when display objects are killed...

not so in Corona

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M3diaDesign
Inspiring
February 12, 2012

Garbage collection runs perfect if you free all or objects! It´s not enough to remove a child from the displayList to free memory. My only experience with corona was to compile the examples with 60 fps ... an not one example runed smoth! Some examples didn´t event start on my iPhone. Network communication in Corona is also very basic! I think its only good for very small games. LUA is a very nice language but the APIs are at the very beginning.

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M3diaDesign
Inspiring
February 12, 2012

I have already tested it. I never archieved 60 FPS maybe I did somethin wrong. In my opinion Air with Stage 3D will be the better choice? We´ve got to wait an see. Did you already tryed Corona? What are your experiences?

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