Comments on: Corona versus AIR again: Where Corona falls behind

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Tue, 28 May 2013 16:05:35 +0000

I’m not aware of any restrictions on shaders. If you use PixelBender, it probably won’t perform very well since it’s all on the CPU. AGAL shaders with Stage 3D are fully supported on mobile and all done in hardware.

By: vikram

vikram — Tue, 28 May 2013 12:43:23 +0000

Hi, Do Shaders supported in AIR mobile. I have heard that shaders are not being supported for mobile now.

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:39:48 +0000

Large scale applications are a different beast. Strong typing helps a lot there for things like refactoring and stuff. I would certainly prefer ActionScript in that case.

Regardless, I still think Lua is more “fun” to write in small, and maybe medium, applications. I have a thing for more dynamic languages though.

By: Malcom

Malcom — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:32:48 +0000

“Lua support because Lua is more fun to write than ActionScript.” I do absolutly disagree with this. As an ActionScript developer I tried to use Corona for one year and I have to say that Lua is great for scripting single modules but it’s suitable for developing large scaled applications. But of course it is just a subjective opinion.

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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:53:06 +0000

[…] posts that compared and contrasted the capabilities of Corona and AIR. A couple of the posts were in favor of AIR while a couple were more critical. Most importantly, to me, the things I was most critical about […]

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:11:51 +0000

Gorka, check out the Native Extensions info on Adobe Developer Connection. There are links to documentation and many sample extensions.

By: Gorka

Gorka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:54:38 +0000

hello Josh,

yo said: “If Adobe hasn’t exposed a feature that I need in my AIR app, and I’m willing to write a little native code to implement it, then I can add that feature myself by including a library with my app.”

I have recently started to learn how to develop iOS apps via AS3 and would really like to learn how to achieve exactly what you said above, could you point me in the right direction to learn how to?

Cheers,
Gorka

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:06:13 +0000

Requiring an Internet connection sucks, I agree. Due to my Windows preference, though, I basically only build for a device once a day. That isn’t a big issue for me, in contrast to switching computers just to do a device build at all. Much like AIR’s debug launcher, the Corona simulator is good enough most of the time.

By: Bryan Rieger

Bryan Rieger — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:26:34 +0000

One other plus for Adobe AIR – it can compile and test on actual devices when not connected to the Internet.

Unfortunately as Corona insists on calling home before compiling (and the simulator is a rather poor facsimilie of an actual device) there is really no way to use Corona in any meaningful way when disconnected from the Internet (ie: when travelling, working remotely, outages, etc).