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Roadmap

I will move the Roadmap to a voting system once we figure it out. Then am going to close this one.

Top Priorities

  • In-App Purchase support for Android
  • Improvements to Physics API (friendlier collisions, etc.)
  • Improved transitions: pause/resume methods
  • Improvements to Sprite API
  • MapView support (Android)
  • Improved WebPopup behavior
  • OAuth support
  • Exposed table of active timers
  • Integrated advertising
  • System capabilities API
  • Payment integration Android (Paypal,etc)
  • Analytics
  • Split Features. Don't wait to have feature parity on both Android/iOS. We can live with wichever is first.

Other Features

  • Add "2.5d" image transforms
  • Improvements to image saving API
  • Physics: simplified collision detection for "non-physical" cases
  • Improvements to Corona debugger
  • Support for compressed textures
  • Improved line drawing API
  • Support for Android softkeys
  • OpenGL shader support
  • iTunes library support
  • On-device debugging
  • Misc. improvements to core API usability
  • Page Flip
  • Improved Text Fields
  • New Corona UI Features
  • Curve Fitting
  • Object Fill
  • Bezier Manupulation
  • Procedural Graphics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Reconstruction of Arbitrary Topology using NURBS
  • LOD Rendering for terrains

Your Requested Features

  • Bon Jour
  • Device IP
  • BT Stack
  • Timer pause/resume
  • Apple Push Notification
  • Local Notification
  • OpenFeint for Android
  • Tinting
  • Access to bitmap data

Forgotten Ones

  • Contact List (Address book)
  • Email attachments
  • Better XML parser
  • Give Carlos a raise
  • Live Wallpaper for Android
  • Camera objects overlay (video, camera)
  • Better Text Metrics

Now your feedback and please for my own sanity and yours, don't g firing all cylinders on me. lets keep this to features and lets refrain from diverging from the POV. Otherwise, I will be forced to close this thread.

PS: As soon as I can add that vote thingy I will incorporate it into the page. In the meantime, the +1 will suffice for now.

PSS: The voting thingy is not working out - in the meantime will continue to use this format.

PSSS: If you are interested in custom code, contact enterprise sales at Enterprise Sales

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bob.dickinson
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Provide PPI/DPI so layout can work on all devices

Currently there is no way to get the PPI/DPI of a device from Corona (AFAIK). There are APIs on both Android and iOS that expose these values, and it should be easy to wrap a system.getInfo("DPI") around them. Here is my comment on a thread of this topic which explains this in more detail:

http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2011/08/19/detecting-dpi#comment-84258

The problem is that without this tiny little piece of information it's just about impossible to make an app using Corona that doesn't look like a "scaled up phone app" on any tablet that you run it on. This is a pretty big issue for me, or anyone who wants to run on lots of devices with different *physical sizes* (not just different resolutions of a 4" device).

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Contact List (Address book)

+1 for Contact List (Address book)

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Site search

+1 for being able to search on anscamobile.com for posts in the forums and code exchange (explicitly) for posts by a particular user

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rafaelcarmiol
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I have a suggestion that

I have a suggestion that might be dumb, but might as well work out.

Would it be possible to "fake" the pinch to zoom with the mouse wheel? That would help out to avoid having to build the app to test that gesture.

Just a thought...

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pinch/zoom

I actually posted some code in the code exchange a while back which lets you simulate that. The code library might be useful because it performs pinch-zoom with rotation but the test code on top uses multiple display objects to "track" the points of the pinch.

http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/multi-point-pinch-zoom-rotate

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Build for Windows and Mac

+1 Build for Windows and Mac

byron5
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2.5D+

2.5D +

seddas
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Procedural graphics and bitmap data!

OpenGL shader support +1
Procedural Graphics +1
Improved line drawing API +1
Fluid Dynamics +1
Tinting +1
Access to bitmap data +1
Object Fill +1

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tinting already

tinting already available
read object:setFillColor() API

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Windows Mobile 8 Support

+1 for supporting publishing to Windows Mobile 8 platform!
Its a must! Being early adopters we could dominate it :)

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HTML

+ 1 HTML5 Integration
+ 1 for accessing phone calender and contacts

dev5
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+1 for Contacts/Address Book

+1 for Contacts/Address Book access (iOS)
+1 for pixel level image access (iOS)
+1 OpenGL shader support (iOS)

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Improvements

+1 Improved line drawing API

+1 Procedural Graphics

+1 OpenGL shader support

Since i bought Corona for about a month ago, i can now say that i will NEVER go back to flash again.
I come from a background as a flash developer and it took me no more than one day to feel that i could code Lua just as fluently as i code actionscript3. Im not kidding. I love lua and i love Corona!

Keep up the good work!

dax trajero
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AUDIO CAPTURE (ANDROID) - please support .RAW format

Please, please, please, please fix Android audio capture so it supports .raw file format.

At present, regardless of the filename you specify for media.newRecording, it always encodes in 3gp

I really, really need .raw format so I can get at the data and perform post processing on it.

Even the Corona web page for Event Sounds, Audio Recording section, states: "The Android implementation supports raw and 3gp"

Please put it in!

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ANDROID WIDGETS

And do not let forget native ANDROID WIDGETS.

I just imagine I could create a cool Widget for my latest game,
displaying a Highscore and other news.

Android Widgets are such a basic and unique Android thing.
It is really missing in Corona.

+1 Android Widgets!

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+1 for Calendar and Contacts

+1 for Calendar and Contacts. I don't think they should be on the forgotten list but should be made available ASAP!

Richard

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Improvements to Physics API (friendlier collisions, etc.)

+1 for Physics improvements. Collisions is a big one.

I would also really like to see the physics debug draw renderer fixed when using scale/rotation. As soon as I do a pinch-zoom to see a little more of my world, the debug collision outline drawing is hosed (thankfully the physics themselves work fine, and the drawing bug is pointed out in the docs).

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Yes, @Chang, +1 for physics,

Yes, @Chang, +1 for physics, especially ragdoll related fixes.

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Yes, @Chang, +1 for physics,

Yes, @Chang, +1 for physics, especially ragdoll related fixes.

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It's time to update the roadmap

I think its time to sort out some of the features that have already been pushed and a list of some upcoming features.

Meanwhile we can request some features that are not in the list. ie: Physics engine improvement etc.

paul.cardwell
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+1 Apple Push Notification

I could really use this in upcoming applications.

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Box2D GetMass()

Would be good to be able to call GetMass() as defined in Box2D...

https://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2011/12/06/box2d-getmass

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+1 Apple Push Notification

+1 Apple Push Notification

Flying Ace
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+1 Bezier Manupulation

As I've written, +1. (Comment field is required)

dax trajero
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+1 local peer to peer / bluetooth

Need to build app that allows to 2 devices to communicate locally

Equivalent of Apple's Gamekit I suppose, utilising Bluetooth or WiFi depening on availability.

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Push Support

+1 Apple Push Notification
+1 Local Notification

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Poll

Thought I should just repost this as there's quite a bit of activity...

http://www.twiigs.com/poll/Technology/Internet/84844

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Analytics

Flurry is not much use.
+1 playtomic.com
+1 google analytics

mrctito
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+1 to Add "2.5d" image transforms

+1 Add "2.5d" image transforms

It is a important feature to allow more sophisticated page transitions, mainly to book applications.

bizarreapps0
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+1 Android In App purchasing

+1 Android In App purchasing
Would make cross platform integration Great

loppy
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+1 Physics: simplified

+1 Physics: simplified collision detection for "non-physical" cases

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+1 Android In-app purchase

+1 Android in-app purchase

emanouel
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+1 to iads

I would also like to see iAds support as my top feature.

dirtyBit
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+1 in-app purchasing for Android.

Hi Corona. Can you guys give us an update on in-app purchase support for Android?

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+1 OAuth support

+1 OAuth support

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Page Flip +1

Page Flip +1
Thanks!

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Page Flip +1

Any rough idea when these features will be available? especially for the Page Flip. :-)

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Android MapView Please!

+1000 Android MapView - DESPERATELY needed please! Otherwise I have a project about to die on the vine (as in within days)

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+1 in-app purchasing for Android.

Can Ansca give us an estimation on when in-app purchasing will be available for Android? This is a make it or break it feature for our games.

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+1 native code support

We could then incorporate calendar support, sending emails, initialising call by ourselves.

Come on Ansca ... Adobe has done it.

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Poll
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+1 MapView support

+1 MapView support (Android)
+1 Schedules Alerts event calendar !!! (Android)

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MapView on Android

I have a customer who needs this with setmarker.

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Web pop up

Hi,

I see web popup is in the top priorities list...

Is there any news on when it will be available and what the improved capabilities will include?

Sorry if this is a repeat

Matt

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Where is the CPS?

When can we expect to have in-app purchases on Android? 2011?!

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File listener on Windows

Greetings,

the file listener on Mac is so fantastic that my coding flow is based around it ( background music starts if the code compiles, otherwise not ) it's almost Pavlovmatic. Now that I now you only got 15 developers, I'm not sure it's wise spending time on a Windows file listener, but if it's a low hanging fruit.. +1

Integrated advertising+1

T.

miguelsignes
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Thx!

+1 Page Flip
+1 Improved Text Fields

indiegamepod
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+1 Android In-App Purchases

+1 Android In-App Purchases

krej.net
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My suggestions

+1 for Android camera support
+1 for pixel level image access