Tutorial: Native iOS Apps With Lua Using iPhone Wax For Beginners

I have mentioned the free open source iPhone Wax project several times in the past.  What the iPhone wax project allows you to do is automatically bridge Lua and Objective-C allowing you to access anything written in Objective-C using your Lua code automatically.

The project has evolved considerably over time, and many of the resources have become out of date.  Recently I came across an excellent, up-to-date tutorials from Alec George using the latest version of Wax and Xcode 4 made for those getting started with iPhone Wax.

You can find the tutorial here:

Building Native iOS Apps with Wax: Creating a Sample Application 1/2
Building Native iOS Apps with Wax: Creating a Sample Application 2/2

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