Corona™ iPhone Simulator

Preview your Corona games or apps with the Corona iPhone simulator. The Corona Simulator runs your games or apps right on your Mac desktop so you can see immediate results. The Corona Simulator is compatible with either Intel or PowerPC Macs.

Rich graphics

Corona supports smoothly bitmapped sprites and fluid animations, as well as anti-aliased vector objects — use whatever is best for your games or apps and harness the power of the iPhone's support for OpenGL ES.

Camera and photos

Corona makes it easy to access the built in iPhone camera and the Camera Roll. You can edit and save your pictures in the Camera roll, or upload them to your favorite social site.

GPS and compass

Corona enables you access the iPhones GPS and built in compass (3GS only). Find out where you are, and which way you are facing. Use the data to launch Google maps to find locations, directions, traffic and more.

Localization

Corona supports the iPhone's built-in localization features. You can detect the language or locale of each user, and you can adjust your content appropriately.

Corona debugger

The Corona command-line debugger offers all standard debugging features, including breakpoints, stepping through code and into functions, inspecting variables, obtaining stack traces, and evaluating Corona expressions.

Detailed documentation

Corona includes more than 120 pages of helpful documentation, including a getting started guide, a tutorial introduction to using Corona, an introduction to the Corona framework, an API reference, and much more.

Accelerometer

Corona allows you to easily detect when the iPhone is rotated from portrait to landscape, and then automatically change what you see onscreen.

Native keyboard and UI support

Access the iPhone's native text features, including all fonts, multi-line fields and keyboard input. Create native text fields to enter passwords or log into to a website, or submit high scores to a webserver. Other native elements are also available in Corona, including alert dialogs and activity indicators.

Facebook and Twitter

Corona helps you integrate your iPhone games or apps with Facebook and Twitter — you can post status updates or tweets with a few lines of code, or even publish graphics and custom links to Facebook for viral marketing campaigns.

Animated sprites
(or "movieclips")

The Movieclip feature allows you to create animated sprites. These animated sprite objects can be moved or transformed just like ordinary Corona graphic objects, they can animate either forwards or backwards, and they can optionally have named keyframes. If you are a Flash Developer, you'll find this very similar to the Movieclip feature in Flash.

Web Integration

The new WebPopup lets you open any local or remote web content right inside Corona. This is great for external web services such as the Facebook Connect login, or for using the native layout and UI features built into Apple's WebKit. You can even combine transparent web content with live Corona animation!