Benefits

Gideros mobile development framework, known as Gideros Studio, is used to create, test and deploy graphically rich games and applications for iPhone, iPad and Android. It provides an intuitive and simple interface for Flash developers with advanced technologies like 2D programming, game physics, accelerometer and such on a variety of platforms including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Developers can immediately download Gideros Studio for free and start developing games and visually rich applications using Lua, a scripting language with lifetime trial. Indies and Enterprise companies can also buy Gideros Studio, benefiting from prioritized support and unbranded application.

Increase your productivity

Learning curve of Gideros Studio is not steep. In only two hour’s of time you’ll find yourself building, installing and running your very own application. Using a powerful scripting language like Lua and bundling it with an easy-to-use IDE greatly maximizes programmer’s efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore Gideros Studio is an excellent way to start your own software development for iPhone, iPad and Android platforms no matter what operating system you use – either Mac, Windows or Linux.

• Join our friendly forum and introduce yourself
• Jumpstart with 30+ examples, many templates
• Kickoff with Gideros Academy

PS: Did you know that using Gideros Studio is 60-80% faster than writing with Objective-C or Java?

Integrated IDE

Gideros Studio comes with an integrated IDE, enabling faster development of iPhone, iPad and Android applications. It has developer-oriented features like code completion, syntax highlighting and project management. During the build stage, Gideros Studio translates your code from Lua to native code of the targeted platform. Tools and features of Gideros Studio helps you organize resources, prevent mistakes and provide shorter ways throughout development process.

• Save time by using an all-in-one IDE
• Export your project to Eclipse and Xcode
• Benefit from asset management

See our features page to see each Gideros Studio IDE module.

Native interfaces

Gideros adds a framework for manipulating graphics and sound assets. Framework used by Gideros Studio is also capable of communicating with underlying hardware such as accelerometer and GPS. Due to the underlying scripting language nature of Lua which resembles Flash, development time is much shorter than iPhone or Android SDK. Game interaction is also straightforward, using integrated Box2D physics engine functions, hence developers do not have to calculate each interaction between screen objects, and draw transition of screen elements.

• Reuse your existing code with Gideros Studio plugin framework
• Unleash Box2D’s physics engine performance
• Utilize crossplatform OpenAL sound system
• Use OpenGL to deliver fast, native graphic performance
• Render 2D dynamic fonts
• Improve rendering performance with texture atlas

Even more – Gideros Studio includes its own tweening and scene manager, so you code efficiently!

Use freely

Gideros team is working hard to provide you a cheap, non-obtrusive way of iPhone, iPad and Android development. Therefore using Gideros Studio is free – you do not pay for it while using or building your software. Applications built with Gideros Studio only shows a short splash screen, aiming to give attribution to Gideros Mobile. This is the only restriction.

• Use Gideros Studio even in commercial games
• No royalty fees
• Perfect solution for indies

PS: You’ll be able to purchase Gideros Studio in full, removing the splash screen and get the full featured Gideros Studio IDE.

Light and fast

Gideros Studio can run on a modest hardware – only 1 Gb of RAM and 300 Mb of free disk space will suffice. IDE is very lightweight and responsive, so do the applications written using Gideros Studio. Games and apps you develop will be significantly faster than Flash Lite and HTML5.

Testimonials

I’m testing Gideros from some days now and i feel that it’s a good sdk… (better than others based on Lua). I did several tests on android (galaxy S) and I must say that I am very satisfied (better than other SDK lua based) in terms of smoothness and speed of generated code. Thanks and congratulations for Gideros. It’s a great development system that will probably adopt it for my “creations”.
Gianluca D’Angelo

Oh, free, Integrated IDE, upload Lua code to device for testing, offline build… A new competitor with great potential. Very good idea that Gideros provides a player on the iphone device that can run Lua script directly by uploading the code through Wi-fi.
Yuewah Chan

The whole toolset looks very stable and performs on Android (HTC Desire) and my Ipod touch (2nd gen) very well, much better than “…”. I was excited when I saw no stuttering on the Android player, which you can notice with “…” so many times.
Michael Hartlef

What I like about Gideros is I don’t have to upload my code to servers to compile and package, I can test my app on the device via Gideros Player. The Gideros roadmap also looks very good.
Mike Miller

And I’m going to start my venture into the App Business, here with Gideros Mobile.
Nathan Dallas