Ansca(TM) Mobile Unveils Corona(TM) 2.0 SDK for Multi-Platform App Creation at 360iDev, Touts Support From Major Flash Mobile Developers

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansca Mobile — makers of the Corona SDK — today unveiled the public beta for Corona 2.0 at the 360iDev iPhone developer's conference.

With Corona 2.0, users can now seamlessly build apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile devices in one unified environment. The multi-platform functionality leads the list of new features available in the Corona 2.0 beta, and continues the company's mission of empowering developers to create apps quickly and easily.

The Corona 2.0 beta will be available this Friday, April 16 for all registered Corona developers, and the final ship is expected toward the end of Q2. New users who purchase the current Corona 1.1 release now from Ansca Mobile ($99/year) will receive the Corona 2.0 upgrade for free when it is released. Corona 2.0 will be available for $249/year after its release.

"The new version of Corona gives developers a much quicker turn-around time for building apps across different platforms," said Dave Lazarony, Ansca Mobile advisory board member and former Director of Engineering for Adobe's Creative Suite. "And when you can see your results so instantaneously, you're able to test them more thoroughly and try out more ideas in a shorter amount of time – all of which ultimately allows you to build a better piece of software."

Also at 360iDev, Ansca Mobile will be joined by guest speakers with extensive backgrounds in Flash mobile development:

• Greg Burch: Director of Technology at SlideRocket. Greg has over a decade of experience developing for mobile devices, and was the Lead Architect in Flex Mobile at Adobe where he also founded the Slider mobile Flex project.
• Scott Janousek: Founder of Hooken Mobile, a Boston-based mobile content development firm. Scott is an Adobe Community Expert for the Flash platform, and is Adobe-certified as a Flash designer/developer and as an instructor for Flash Lite.
• Darren Osadchuk: Founder of Ludicrous Software, a Winnipeg-based mobile software company. Darren is Adobe-certified as a Flash Lite mobile developer.

Former Macromedia VP joins Ansca Mobile Board of Directors

Ansca Mobile added former Macromedia Vice-President of Engineering for Mobile Devices Gary Hooper to their Board of Directors. Hooper's experience in launching Flash Lite and founding Macromedia's mobile division will help establish Corona as the standard in multi-platform app development. Under Hooper's direction at Macromedia, Flash Lite was expanded to over a half-billion devices worldwide.

About Ansca Mobile

Ansca, Inc. (http://www.anscamobile.com) is a venture-backed Palo Alto, CA-based mobile software company founded by two former Adobe mobile software engineers who previously led the Adobe Flash Lite engineering team. Their Corona software development kit empowers developers of all backgrounds to create graphically rich games and applications for Apple and Google mobile platforms.

SOURCE Ansca, Inc.