Create Mobile s with Corona: Build with Lua on iOS and Android

Develop cross-platform mobile s with Corona using the Lua programming language! Corona is experiencing explosive growth among mobile developers, and this book gets you up to speed on how to use this versatile platform. You’ll use the Corona SDK to simplify programming and take a fun, no-nonsense approach to write and add must-have play features. You’ll find out how to create all the gaming necessities: menus, sprites, movement, perspective and sound effects, levels, loading and saving, and physics. Along the way, you’ll learn about Corona’s API functions and build three common kinds of mobile s from scratch that can run on the iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and all other Android smartphones and tablets.
Get a crash course in cross-platform mobile programming using the Corona SDK. Corona, one of the easiest to use mobile gaming platforms, makes this often-diffict process both quick and easy to master.

Even if you have little previous programming knowledge, you’ll feel comfortable as we begin with fundamentals before building examples of the most common kinds of s on the market today. You’ll develop arcade, side scroller, and tower defense s from start to finish, and Corona will automatically turn them into apps that can run on both iOS and Android devices. These finished apps can be used as ready-to-go frameworks for your own future projects. You’ll learn how to write clean, easily maintainable, easily expandable code, and to create online leaderboards for your s. You’ll also find out how to make money with s: enabling in-app purchases and in- ads as well as how to get apps into the iTunes App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Android Marketplace.

This book focuses on getting quick and effective rests. Every page teaches by example and explanation, not with abstract lists of functions and variables. By the time you’re done, you’ll have learned most of what there is to know about mobile programming and about the Corona SDK.

Table of Contents:

Getting Started.
Hello, Corona!
Planet Defender.
The Loop.
Sprites and Movement.
Input and Menus.
Vertical-Scrolling Shooter.
Representing Movement and Perspective.
Adding Shooting, Collisions, and Power-Ups.
Adding Sound.
Tower Defense.
Displaying Maps and Sorting Depths.
Adding Movement and Artificial Intelligence.
Loading and Saving.
Physics and Distribution.
Physics and the Accelerometer.
Publishing Our Apps.
Appendix.



Название: Create Mobile s with Corona: Build with Lua on iOS and Android PDF
Автор: Domenech S.
Издательство: The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Год: 2013
Страниц: 258
ISBN: 978-1-937785-57-4
Формат: PDF
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: english