The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 87 developer (on January 19-25)
The main news of the week is the presentation of Windows 10 and the new virtual reality glasses from Microsoft. In addition to them, one can note the struggle around the Anti-Collector application, an interesting move of the BlackBerry leader who proposed “application neutrality”, an explanation of Flurry analytics and mistakes made by newcomers to game development. Productive week!
Six months ago, I talked about my experience as a freelancer on oDesk. After that, I decided to leave the development of Android applications to order and pursue my old dream - creating games. My friends and I teamed up, and the work began to boil ...
A few hours ago, the broadcast of the Windows 10: The Next Chapter event ended, where Microsoft introduced many different new products, some of which, until recently, we could only present in movies and on the pages of science fiction novels.
Microsoft HoloLens, a new gadget presented by the company at the presentation of Windows 10, caused a storm of positive reviews among those who managed to try it on themselves. The gadget is glasses for creating augmented reality. Wearing glasses, you can work with virtual objects that are displayed on top of real, visible through the transparent lenses of the glasses. It will be possible to control in the virtual world with the help of gestures and voice commands.
iOS
Android
Windows phone
Development
Marketing and monetization
Devices
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Game Newbie Mistakes |
New Windows 10 and other fantastic news from Microsoft |
Microsoft introduced HoloLens augmented reality glasses |
iOS
Android
- (+20) Google removed the Anti-collector application from Play
- (+17) Ubuntu Make - to the help to the developer
- (+13) Video. Fundamentals of Material Design
- (+13) Qt Android and system dialogue of sound control
- (+7) Fabric (Twitter Kit) example in Android Studio
- (+4) Development Experience under Android Wear
- (+2) Calculation of sunset and dawn times by coordinates of an Android device using earthtools
- Google updated rules for app names
Windows phone
- (+16) Simple acceptance of payments by bank cards in Windows Universal Apps
- Yuri Vetrov: Sunset Design Windows Phone?
- The best games and applications of Windows Phone 2014
Development
- (+42) Struggle with 2D physics in Unity as an example of an endless game
- (+10) Unity 4.5 for the smallest - work with a sound (lesson)
- (+4) Video of reports with GDG DevFest Voronezh 2014
- Fortumo Releases Offline IAP SDK
- Opened a set of game projects in the "Shack"
- Twitter has opened Digits registration for the web
- BlackBerry CEO wants application neutrality
- Inmarsat opens its platform to developers
- Design and application design: details and tricks
Marketing and monetization
- (+14) Flurry retention rates: very important and very incomprehensible
- Mobile app analytics: what developers use
- 10 networks for video ads in applications
- Mobile advertising analytics: the best platforms
- For mobile growth, you must focus outside the US and China.
- How a mobile application can survive in a highly competitive market
- Evgeny Kruglov (MobiGear): it will be much more difficult for small developers
- Nekki Launches New Indie Initiative and Announces First Project
- Why Slack succeeded: not a damn idea
- New processes: why the application is not enough to release
- Social app discovery works better than app stores
- The tricks of the apps that hold your attention
Devices
- (+31) The phenomenon of Xiaomi: to become the third manufacturer of smartphones
- (+23) Smartphones of 2015: new technologies according to MediaTek
- (+6) TimeForge company introduced a personnel control system at Beacon
← Last week’s digest . If I missed something in the search for updates - send it to the mail, I will quickly add it.