Corona is a SDK for developing mobile apps for iOS and Android

It's built on the language Lua

_w = display.contentWidth;
_h = display.contentHeight;

function hex2rgb(hex)
	local r = hex:sub(1, 2)
	local g = hex:sub(3, 4)
	local b = hex:sub(5, 6)
	return tonumber(r, 16), tonumber(g, 16), tonumber(b, 16)
end

local line1 = display.newText("Hello", _w/2, (_h/2) - 24, 24)
local line2 = display.newText("World", _w/2, (_h/2) + 24, 24)

line1:setTextColor(255,0,0)
line2:setTextColor('#bada55')

It runs on OSX and Windows

Great

• Animation
• Physics
• Rapid development
• iOS API(Game center, iAds, maps, camera)

Good

• Debugging
• Easy to learn
• Fairly fast
• Android API

Bad

• Text
• Built in timing
• Occasionally fragmented documentation
• Closed source