Useful materials for the mobile developer # 62 (July 14-20)
In the weekly digest porting Evolution to Android, a contest for developers from Wargaming, free programming courses for Android, reducing 18,000 people and launching sales of applications in Belarus and the CIS countries with Microsoft, Apple and IBM cooperation in the corporate field. An interesting week!

iOS-audience with interest met the novelty in the spring of this year, and we are already preparing for the first impressions of Android-users. In the article I will talk about how we ported the game to Android and what difficulties and nuances we encountered in the process.
WGDC is the first official Wargaming competition for the developer community. The purpose of the competition is to update our format of interaction with developers of applications and mods of the game client, search for common ground and take a step towards mutually beneficial cooperation.
The children grew up and cut off the wires on the simulator. The bike-board ordered to live long and pedaling became not interesting. I decided to fix the scoreboard in the same way, in ios-ovsky.
For all developers of mobile applications, one of the main goals is to occupy the top app stores. Tops of the App Store and Google Play in each country are visited by hundreds of thousands of people every day, and while in the top, the application collects a huge number of installations.
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![]() | Android "Evolution": how it was |
![]() | Wargaming Developers Contest |
![]() | Twist, twist, twist, twist pedals |
![]() | Comprehensive guide to getting apps to the top |
iOS- (+23) Apple and IBM became allies in gaining the corporate market
- SwiftInFlux: a live list of links to the best Swift content
Android- (+61) The dark side of Google Play
- (+23) Google announced free programming courses for Android
- (+22) Automation in Android a part 1. We add the teams in Google Now
- (+14) Interview with Chris Lasi - developer of Link Bubble and Action Launcher
- Google Play will stop calling IAP apps “Free”
Windows phone- Microsoft brings together resources for developers of Windows and Windows Phone and opens the sale of applications in Belarus and other CIS countries
- (+41) Logical end of history of Nokia X
- (+21) New Windows Phone 8.1. What should an application developer do?
- (+21) We turn the Windows Store application into universal
- (+18) WinJS on Windows Phone 8.1
- (+17) We update the Windows Phone 8.0 application to Windows Phone 8.1 (XAML)
- (+13) We update the Windows Phone Silverlight 8.0 application to Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1
- Microsoft cuts 18,000 employees
Development- (+29) Who needs this HTML: “How I washed down a payment service in 2 months - and sent it to the dump”
- (+28) We write an Android game on Xamarin + MonoGame (C #)
- (+14) LG G3: outside and inside of the clearest smartphone in the world
- (+10) Unity3D + Google Services: multiplayer for your project on Android and iOS
- New version of Appcelerator Platform: analytics, own clouds and new APIs
- Visual presentation of content: card interfaces
- Nest, Samsung, ARM made Thread protocol for home automation
- White Nights 2014: Playtestix report on early game development testing of games and applications
Marketing and monetization- Quarterly App Annie Market Index released
- Anatoly Sharifulin, Ostrovok: How to optimize applications in the App Store and Google Play
- Amazon Mobile Ad Network has earned on iOS
- Rebranding Airbnb
- 3 reasons for the success of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
- Amazon has opened mobile analytics
- Kii Launches KiiReferral, a Social Media Promotion Platform
- Nexon, Wargaming.net and Zynga invested in a venture fund for game developers
- White Nights 2014: Wooga Report on the Evolution of Mobile Marketing
activity- WebCamp: Mobile Day : July 22 in Odessa
- Hackathon crowdsourcing applications to solve public problems : July 25-26 in Moscow
Devices- (+158) Ordered a rare phone in a foreign online store? Get a subpoena
- (+48) Materials for the manufacture of mobile devices
- (+30) MediaTek MT6795 chipset is released: “first”, “eight-core”, “64-bit”
- (+20) Android Wear: What went wrong?
- (+16) Lumia on a summer night: how a photo installation was created at the MSND festival
- cPulse: Smartphone Case with 128 LEDs
- Google offers module developers a motherboard for Project Ara
- Intel Make it Wearable Contest Finalists
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