With Corona you dont need to beign from scratch, it provides a range of resources to assist you in building your app, such as customized code and graphics. This implies that you can develop your app swiftly and with reduced exertion.

Corona SDK is most popular for developing apps and games.It is open source as well as cross platform which helps developers to save their time and money. The best part is that it provides real-time testing which reflects our changes immediately in results. It has 1000+ APIs and plugins which made it high performing development tool. It supports Lua scripting language which is light-weight is easy to go.

Beauty of corona is its simple API, although i was new to lua i was able to pick it up in couple of hours. The api itself was so simple that i was able to make prototypes really fast. The tool itself was built with developers in mind, it is code first meaning "no daunting configurations or clunky IDEs that you have to get acquainted with.". All you need to get started with corona sdk is a text editor. It is truely cross platform with single code base. You dont have to have any experience in Android studio or Xcode to port it to IOS or Android, all the heavy lifting is done by the tool. Advantages of corona: Simple api Lua is easy to learn Games run without any lag on all platforms Very active community Very good and clear documentation Tool itself is very simple and all the heavy lifting is already done by corona folks. Almost forgot to add this, its free you can actually make a full fledged game and publish it to all platforms without paying a penny. Unlike unity where they will put a splash screen saying 'made with unity' for free version. App size will be very small