The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 88 developer (January 26 - February 1)
Many, many interesting materials: the new Stanford course on Swift development, the Pebble emulator, brakes in Android 5, the statistics of visits to the App Store and Google Play - news and articles for every taste in the next digest.
Our Android development team did not have time to sober up after the celebration of the new 2015, as units in the reviews on Google Play began to pour in for “brakes”. Units poured from users of powerful enough devices like Nexus 5, 6 and 7. The only thing that united them was the operating system: Android 5 (Lollipop).
Today I’ll talk about how to create a simple Metal application that displays a three-dimensional cube with lighting. Then we will draw some cubes using one of the main features of Metal - rendering in multiple threads.
Wall Street Journal sources familiar with the situation claim that Cyanogen, a well-known startup, received a significant round of funding of $ 70 million from Microsoft. One of the goals of the investment is to reduce Google’s control over Android.
Where do people come to app stores? Which sites provide the most traffic? We asked Similarweb to share information about visiting the two largest app stores in Russia.
iOS
Android
Windows phone
Development
Marketing and monetization
Devices
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Candelabrum vs Lollipop |
Apple Metal Graphics Programming Basics: Getting Started |
Microsoft received $ 70 million from Cyanogen, one of the goals is to reduce Google’s control over Android |
Where did people come from on the App Store and Google Play in Russia in 2014 |
iOS
- (+16) Stanford cs193p 2015 courses started: iOS 8 + Swift and only Swift
- (+16) Apple reported on the most profitable quarter in the history of the company
- (+16) Xcode 6 Objective-C Modernization Tool
- (+15) The project for Digest MBLTdev iOS developers is launched
- (+15) Services of distribution of mobile applications for iOS. Part 1: TestFlight
- (+13) Apple released iOS 8.1.3
- (+13) Acquaintance with ReactiveCocoa
Android
- (+39) The Antikollektor application is finally removed from Google Play
- (+13) Cross-platform application in Android Studio on jMonkeyEngine 3
- (+3) Do not use MediaPlayer and MediaMetadataRetriever in Android
- CEO Cyanogen: we are trying to take Android from Google
- Using Project Kotlin for Android
Windows phone
Development
- (+42) Unreal Engine 4 reached photorealism
- (+15) The emulator of hours of Pebble became accessible
- (+14) Unity 2D: work with sprites in different display resolutions
- (+11) Test Case Management Tool: how to make the right choice and not regret it
- (+10) Watchface ProTime for Pebble (interface with a bunch of settings)
- (+7) How we made our game in 48 hours as part of the Global Game Jam 2015
- (+7) Car Tutorial Guide (Unity3d) part 3 of 3 ( 2 , 1 )
- (+4) Pebble: example of use of the Android companion
- Russian Game Jam: meaningful, but still ruthless
- Microsoft and Unity organize a contest for game developers
- Who is responsible for what? Technical Industry Guide for the Designer
- 5 things I found out in charge of product design in a startup
- Application Design Rules by Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer
- Facebook starts selling F8 conference tickets
- #FCOVilnius: hire slowly, fire quickly
- 5 changes in the world of mobile development for 2015 from InMobi
- Game developers in England forced to work overtime
Marketing and monetization
- App Annie Report “Retrospective 2014”
- AppLift Introduces New Marketing Platform to Automate User Acquisition
- BI Intelligence Marketing Report: How to Acquire and Retain Mobile Application Users
- Games on Android caught up with iOS games for profit
- We remove negative reviews from the App Store and Google Play
- Trivia Crack: study of viral growth
- Millennial Media Report, Application Industry: 2015 Snapshot
Devices
- (+14) Apple Watch will go on sale in April
- (+6) Case for smartphones prints instant photos
- Why iPad sales decline is an achievement
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