Corona Store: Flashlights, Vibration, and Text to Speech

15 September 2015

Corona Store: Flashlights, Vibration, and Text to Speech

michael
From the Store

We have a few exciting new plugins available on the Corona Store: Spiral Code Studio hits us yet again with LED flashlight control, vibration control, and text to speech.

Please visit the store to activate plugins, or to submit a plugin yourself.

1. Flashlight

By Spiral Code Studio

The Flashlight plugin provides access to the flash LED light source, which can be used as a torch. This works on Android and iOS.

Using it is quite simple:

local flashlight = require('plugin.flashlight')

-- Show the light for 3 seconds
flashlight.on()
timer.performWithDelay( 3000, function() flashlight.off() end )

local flashlight = require('plugin.flashlight')

-- Show the light for 3 seconds

flashlight.on()

timer.performWithDelay( 3000, function() flashlight.off() end )

Check it out on the Corona Store.

2. Vibrator

By Spiral Code Studio

The Vibrator plugin provides you a fine control over vibration ability of Android devices. iOS devices, unfortunately, lack such customization.

local vibrator = require('plugin.vibrator')

...

-- Vibrate for a second
vibrator.vibrate(1000)

-- Wait for 100ms, vibrate for 500ms, turn off for 200ms, vibrate for 250ms. Repeat.
vibrator.vibrate({100, 500,  200, 250}, 1)

local vibrator = require('plugin.vibrator')

...

-- Vibrate for a second

vibrator.vibrate(1000)

-- Wait for 100ms, vibrate for 500ms, turn off for 200ms, vibrate for 250ms. Repeat.

vibrator.vibrate({100, 500, 200, 250}, 1)

Check it out on the Corona Store.

3. Text to Speech

By Spiral Code Studio

The Text-To-Speech plugin enables your applications on Android and iOS to speak various text in various languages. You can control pitch, rate and volume.

local texttospeech = require('plugin.texttospeech')
texttospeech.speak( 'Hello, Corona!', {  
    language = 'en-US',
    pitch = 0.8,
    rate = 0.6,
    volume = 0.9
} )

local texttospeech = require('plugin.texttospeech')

texttospeech.speak( 'Hello, Corona!', {

language = 'en-US',

pitch = 0.8,

rate = 0.6,

volume = 0.9

} )

Check it out on the Corona Store.

michael

14 Comments

Scott
Posted at 17:00h, 15 September

Cool plugins Spiral studios
Thomas Vanden Abeele
Posted at 06:13h, 16 September

Hi there!

Very cool to see that these are free plug-ins! Thanks, Spiral Studios! For the record: things like this definitely make me more inclined to pay for other stuff from a developer.
Serkan
Posted at 08:16h, 16 September

Great plugins Spiral Code, hats off to you! Especially for the VK plugin!
Erich Grüttner D.
Posted at 08:58h, 16 September

Thank you Spiral Code, amazing plugins!!!
gregt
Posted at 08:04h, 17 September

Fantastic work!
Robert
Posted at 13:58h, 17 September

Thanks for these awesome plug-ins!
Radu
Posted at 15:41h, 17 September

Great work Sergey, thanks!
Simon Fearby
Posted at 15:57h, 17 September

If you find this code useful you can donate to the author http://spiralcodestudio.com/donate
Josh Bryan
Posted at 21:18h, 17 September

Hello,
I’m trying out the sample version from github and I keep getting this error:

?:0: attempt to index global ‘network’ (a nil value)
stack traceback:
?:in function ‘downloadManifest’
?”in function ‘downloadQueuedManifests’
?:in function
?:in main chunk

Do you have an idea of whats going on?
Sajid
Posted at 21:52h, 17 September

Great thing continuously coming up by Spiral Code.. Specially Text to Speech..

Thanx alot Sergey Lalov
Claude
Posted at 02:23h, 18 September

Really cool plugins guys!
Not having text to speech functionality was the reason I couldn’t developed an app cross platform!
Jander
Posted at 05:15h, 18 September

Thanks, Spiral Studios!!!
belghiti
Posted at 02:44h, 20 September

Great work…
Warren
Posted at 21:47h, 20 September

These are great plugins! I wish the app did not pause when I use the flashlight. I set it to show the light for as quick as 20ms and it was still on longer than that and the app pauses while it is on. Any way around this?

Thanks!!