ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about menu and user interface used in Corona software development kit (SDK). The box is the User Interface (UI), also known as the Head Up Display (HUD) by the pros. The main part of this HUD is the game menu. The chapter shows how to create a nice animated menu with around 80 lines of codes. People can use their own graphic assets or download these assets from the book companion and use them for testing purposes to create a nice animated menu in the games. The Apple Retina screen doubles the number of pixels on the screen, if people use non-Retina assets on a Retina device, their game will be blurry. Corona SDK supports multiple screen size resolutions, including Retina. The Corona engine will choose the correct graphics for people according to the resolution of the platform on which the app is running.
