Corona is a mobile development framework for creating high-performance, multimedia-rich applications, games, eBooks etc. for Windows, macOS, Apple (iPhone, iPad, ...), Android devices and HTML5.
Corona is a software development kit created by Walter Luh, co-founder of Ansca Mobile (Now known as Corona Labs Inc). It allows software programmers to build mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices and Kindle Fire.
Corona lets developers use integrated Lua, layered on top of C++/OpenGL, to build graphically rich applications that are also lightweight in size and quick in development time. The SDK does not charge per-app royalty or impose any branding requirement, apart from a payment of $99 per year to remove a splash screen, and has a subscription-based purchase model that allows new features to be rolled out immediately to users. For example $199 per year for an Admob plugin.
Corona is moving to an open source model.
Major features
The SDK exposes features such as audio and graphics, cryptography, networking, as well as device information such as accelerometer information, GPS, and user input.
Why use Corona?
- Easy to learn
- Publish to major platforms
- Windows and macOS support
- Build apps for Apple TV and Android TV too!
- Real-time testing
- Built in-monetization
Latest SDK Build
Documentations
References
Share Your Code
Vast compilation of shared code from the Corona SDK CommunityForums
Community forums
Supporting Platforms
- iOS
- tvOS
- macOS
- Android (including Android TV)
- Kindle
- Windows x86
- HTML5
