03 August 2015
Today, Steven Johnson of led us through part 4 of our ongoing discussion on creating custom shader effects. During the Hangout Steven highlighted some of the exponential numerical issues surrounding shader math. We looked at a few visual representations of these “numerical issues” and talked about how to overcome hardware limitations to achieve device level precision....
31 July 2015
Welcome to the latest installment of From the Forum. In this series, guest blogger Alex Jackson highlights outstanding threads from the Corona Forum. The goal is to bring attention to the most captivating, interesting, and thought-provoking discussions taking place in our very own backyard....
29 July 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 151, Jason Schroeder showed us how his new Twitter plugin works and Steven Johnson showed an example of a custom shader effect that dynamically fills a glass with fluid as you move a slider. Here are clips from the Hangout....
27 July 2015
Today, Ed Maurina, from Roaming Gamer, took us through the basics of social media integration using the Facebook plugin. We looked at logging in, requesting permissions, and posting updates to a users timeline. We also discussed how to get an app id from the Facebook Developer portal....
24 July 2015
Welcome to the latest installment of From the Forum. In this series, guest blogger Alex Jackson highlights outstanding threads from the Corona Forum. The goal is to bring attention to the most captivating, interesting, and thought-provoking discussions taking place in our very own backyard....
24 July 2015
Since Facebook released version 4.4.0 of their SDK and deprecated Graph API v1.0, many of you have been asking for us to upgrade, and provide new features to our facebook plugin....
22 July 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 150, Steven Johnson introduced us to creating custom vertex shaders effects in Corona SDK. We also looked at some shader code examples to see the effects in action and we revealed a tip for using wireframe mode with display.setDrawMode to see the points of a polygon in a vertex shader example. Here are the clips from the Hangout. ...
22 July 2015
At the beginning of this year, I outlined new platforms as a major theme for 2015. And a few months later, at GDC, we announced bringing Mac App and Win32 App support to the Corona platform. Since then, we've been conducting private betas with a small group of Corona developers. Today, we are opening up the Mac App and Win32 App betas to everyone in the Corona community!...
20 July 2015
On today's Corona Geek Hangout, Jason Schroeder showed off features in his new plugin for Twitter integration into Corona built apps and Steven Johnson introduced us to a cool custom shader effect that fills a drinking glass with fluid on the fly....
17 July 2015
Welcome to the latest installment of From the Forum. In this series, guest blogger Alex Jackson highlights outstanding threads from the Corona Forum. The goal is to bring attention to the most captivating, interesting, and thought-provoking discussions taking place in our very own backyard....
