Corona SDK Application Design by Williams, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Corona SDK Application Design

Table of Contents Corona SDK Application Design Credits About the Author About the Reviewers www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Downloading the color images of this book Errata Piracy Questions

1. Getting Started with Your Mobile Adventure

What is Corona SDK? Prerequisites for Corona SDK Downloading, installing, and using Corona SDK

Installing for Mac OS X Installing for Microsoft Windows Using Corona SDK

Summary

2. Learning Lua

Using variables with Lua Using the terminal Expressions and operators

Arithmetic expressions Comparison operators

Making decisions

The if-then statement The if-then-else statement

Loops, loops, and loops

The for loop The while loop More flexibility with tables Using functions

Summary

3. Creating Your First App

Using a text editor

Notepad++ Sublime Text Corona-specific editors

Creating a new project

An introduction to Storyboard

The createScene function The enterScene function The exitScene function The destroyScene function

Switching scenes Destroying scenes

Using widgets Starting with main.lua

view1.lua – about us view2.lua – your BMI view3.lua – contact us config.lua – setting up dynamic content resolution

App icons Summary

4. Creating a Puzzle App

A quick introduction to puzzle games

Downloading the starter kit

My Jigsaw Puzzle

build.settings config.lua main.lua menu.lua gameplay.lua

Getting local libraries Creating variables  Creating display groups The shuffle function Creating the shuffle function

Dragging-and-dropping display objects

Creating the drag function

Summary

5. Testing and Publishing

How to test your app

iOS Android

Publishing your app

Publishing to Apple's App Store Publishing to Google Play

Other resources and the Corona community

A. Tools, Services, and Marketing

Third-party tools Third-party services Marketing tips

Index

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