RoboForm October 19, 2014 at 14:01

The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 75 developer (on October 13-19)

A very interesting week stood out in the mobile market - Apple introduced new tablets, announced the release of WatchKit, iOS 8.1 and Pay, Google released a new Android 5.0 Lollipop and new Nexus, and several interesting reports were released. A few dozen news - in the next digest.

OS on a stick: Google officially introduced Android 5.0 Lollipop

The day of the breakdown came: Android L is now officially called as Android 5.0 or Android Lollipop ("icicle").

October premieres of Apple: iMac with retina, Mac mini, two iPads and others

Today Apple talked about what millions of people around the world will find under the Christmas trees this year. The list of gifts included: iMac with retina, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 (however, older generations also have a chance to get under the tree, because their prices have fallen) and Mac mini. And also showed OS X Yosemite, WiFi Direct AirPlay and iOS 8.1.

No need to be afraid of Core Data

Based on a small example based on the real task of developing a mobile client for our My World social network, I want to talk about some of the “pitfalls” and draw the attention of a novice developer to important points in optimizing the use of Core Data.

WinJS 3.0 - release for all platforms

Over the past five months, the WinJS team has focused on making the library run seamlessly across multiple platforms and browsers. This means that now you can use WinJS not only for your universal Windows applications, but also for your web sites and for creating mobile applications based on HTML using various platforms using technologies similar to Apache Cordova.