Corona SDK

Corona SDK

Developer(s)	Corona Labs Inc.
Stable release	2016.2830 / 18 February 2016
Operating system	Mac OS (creation and deployment) Windows (creation and deployment) iPhone/iPad (deployment) tvOS (deployment) Android (deployment) Kindle Fire (deployment) Nook (deployment)
Type	Software development kit Game engine
Website	www.CoronaLabs.com

Corona SDK is a software development kit (SDK) developed by Corona Labs Inc. Corona SDK allows software programmers to build mobile applications for iOS, Android, and Kindle, desktop applications for Windows and OS X, and connected TV applications for Apple TV and Android TV.

Corona uses integrated Lua layered on top of C++/OpenGL to build graphic applications. The software has two subscription tiers: the free Corona SDK and the paid Corona Enterprise. A Corona Enterprise subscription adds the ability to use native code in app development.

Walter Luh and Carlos Icaza started Ansca Mobile, later renamed Corona Labs, after departing from Adobe in 2007. At Adobe, Luh was the lead architect working on the Flash Lite team and Icaza was the engineering manager responsible for mobile Flash authoring. In June 2009, Ansca released the first Corona SDK beta free for early adopters.

In December 2009, Ansca launched Corona SDK 1.0 for iPhone. The following February, the Corona SDK 1.1 was released with additional features.

In September 2010, Ansca released version 2.0 of Corona SDK and added Corona Game Edition. Version 2.0 added cross-platform support for iPad and Android, while Game Edition added a physics engine and other advanced features aimed specifically at game development.