Ansca team!

... that would be great, any comment on this?

I was thinking how to re-create some of these with the basics available now, to use in an app, ... but would be reinventing the wheel!

Thanks
Peter

Any word on this? Given the small screen size, several of these are needed in order to deliver an acceptable UI experience.

As you are looking at native UI controls, Miguel de Icaza of the Mono project just blogged about a new namespace they've written called MonoTouch.Dialog that looks pretty nice: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Feb-23.html

I'm not sure how that would translate to lua though...

Absolutely. While I completely respect the capabilities of Corona right now, the basic native interface objects should be a priority. I think you'd see a huge influx of folks if they were. Save the more complicated items for later on, but supporting sliders, checkboxes/radios, toggles, pickerview, etc., would be a huge win. Having to engineer these inside of lua when they are already natively available is a real pain and just adds bloat.

Don't get me wrong, LOVE Corona and I'm really excited to see the future directions, but the basic UI tools really need to be at our fingertips.

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Here's a recent blog post describing scrolling list views with text and graphics:

http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/09/create-scrolling-list-views-with-text-and-graphics-in-coronasdk-ios-android-tutorial/

We've used this ourselves to create the Pillbox app:

http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/09/pillbox-app-powered-by-ansca-coming-soon-to-iphone-ipad-and-android-marketplaces-gov20-g2s/

Can the nativeUI namespace be extended to include access to the features? or even mix and match the code, (more like inline assembly) but using Objective-C blocks.

I am not an expert on this, but like the objects can be exposed for Apple Script to play with, can we not have Corona/Lua interacting with the same? or has it got more to do with displaying them on the simulator than plain accessing them?

There was a sample in HTML5 (PhoneGap) that creates the Picker spinner, it would be better if that was ported and provided natively by Corona than an personal implementation.

cheers,

Jayant C Varma