The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 77 (October 26-November 2)
Last week's result: HTML5 reached recommendation status, two game development stories, Andy Rubin left Google, Microsoft released a smart Band bracelet. About many other things - under the cut in the weekly digest.
The more testers, the better. Now you can test the program with the help of not only a fairly narrow circle of sophisticated experts, but also a wide user audience, each of which with its own bell tower is able to tell what your application may be just missing.
The news is very short, but no less important: the W3C officially announced HTML5 as a recommendation.
The story of how I got into gamedev is rather unusual. It all started with the fact that I worked as a promoter of a strip club on Nevsky Prospekt. One of the nights from Friday to Saturday August 2011, a car with a fun company inside stopped in front of me. One person from this company asked where you can have a good rest nearby ...
The concept of interacting with content on connected devices (laptops, phones, tablets and other accessories) is undergoing a period of great changes. The idea of the application as an independent destination is becoming less and less important, while the application as a publishing tool with notifications containing content and actions is becoming increasingly relevant. This will change what we design and how we do it.
iOS
Android
Windows phone
Development
Marketing and monetization
activity
Devices
← Last week’s digest . If I missed something in the search for updates - send it to the mail, I will quickly add it.
One Thousand: Once More About Testflight |
HTML5 standard reaches W3C recommendation status |
Developer Path: Stories of My Enchanting Failures, Part 1 |
The end of the applications as we knew them |
iOS
Android
- (+7) Android MediaPlayer. Expanding with proxies
- Android creator Andy Rubin leaves Google to create an incubator for technology startups
- Google published checklist for Material Design
Windows phone
Development
- (+20) Mobile services for ASP.NET developers
- (+16) Instructions for an indie developer who wants to assemble a team for his new project
- (+15) We write Windows Phone JavaScript a debugger for Apache Cordova
- (+12) Game development process can now be broadcast in Twitch
- (+11) How we did school of mobile developers in Saransk
- Chukong launches services for Cocos2d-x
- Microsoft Releases SDK and API for Office 365
- How Good Stories Help You Create Great Products
- Oculus VR SDK started working with free Unity
- Unity 5 available for download
Marketing and monetization
- (+13) About motivated and unmotivated traffic on the App Store
- The acquisition cost of a loyal user has reached a historic high
- App Annie and MEF Launch Global Application Economy Growth Report
- Rebecca Crusoe (Toca Boca): Pay more attention to the activities of your children, not their gadgets
- Game advertising works much better
- Google taught AdWords to contact those who bought or made an application
activity
- Mobile Developer & Business Day in Minsk on November 7-9
Devices
- (+20) Microsoft Band smart bracelet with support of Windows Phone, iOS and Android
- (+15) Vulnerability in Find My Mobile service allows an attacker to gain remote access to a Samsung smartphone
- (+15) Energy consumption of gadgets: ways of economy
← Last week’s digest . If I missed something in the search for updates - send it to the mail, I will quickly add it.