Useful materials for the mobile developer # 55 (May 26-June 1)

In anticipation of WWDC, the mobile world did not freeze at all - this week several important events happened at once. App Annie bought Distimo, Microsoft - Capptain, the largest Russian mobile game developer decided to move its headquarters to Lithuania, the new Unity 4.5 was released, Crashlytics released its beta distribution platform for applications.

App Annie buys Distimo

App Annie receives $ 17 million in development from its investors. And buys its most direct competitor - Distimo. The headquarters of Distimo will be renamed App Annie Netherlands and the company will operate as the European R&D center of App Annie. Founders of Distimo will take leadership roles in the combined company, sales offices in London and San Francisco will be connected with the offices of App Annie.

Android application development for working with OBDII protocol

Have you ever thought to display the parameters of your car in your own Android application? If so, then welcome - we will just discuss the development of such an application.

The effectiveness of reviews of simple games for iOS

To test the formula, a sufficiently large statistical sample is needed - about 10,000 honestly downloaded applications. I tried to solve this problem with the help of reviews on 4 Russian and 2 foreign sites. In addition, he tracked the most popular button presses in the first version of the program, removed secondary controls, took into account the players' comments and received the following results.

IOS development

In anticipation of the release of iOS 8, the degree of impatience was constantly growing and there were new concepts of appearance of varying degrees of reliability. Let's look at how Apple’s mobile OS has changed from version to version, and what kind and opportunity it has found in its latest incarnation, the eighth.

Game Insight moves headquarters to Lithuania

Game Insight announced the transfer of the company's headquarters from Russia to Lithuania. The company’s head office will be located in Vilnius and will be responsible for all international operations, marketing, game development management, as well as interaction with platforms and business development in all regions of the world.

iOS

• Apple's smart home is coming: probably the announcement is already on Monday
• Block device in Objective-C
• Apple has reduced the number of applications in the top charts
• The confusion in Apple: the company put a wargame rating of 17+

Android

• Indexing applications: now also in Russian
• Speech synthesizer. Now in Russian
• How to make friends Android, Visual Studio and Parallels Desktop
• [libGDX] We are writing a full game for Android. Part 1 and 2
• Cloud copy paste - open source
• With a remote control for life or laziness - the engine of progress

Windows phone

• Microsoft on applications in the Windows Phone Store

Firefox OS

• The pre-order reception for the Flame dev-smartphone under Firefox OS has begun

Development

• Unity 4.5 released
• The future of scripts in Unity 3D
• VR integration in Unity3d
• Which platform is the easiest to develop?
• Crashlytics Launches Beta: New Beta Distribution Platform
• Gingee Launches Liquid UI 2D Game Engine

Marketing and monetization

• Skillz Releases SDK for Real Money Games for iOS
• NativeX has opened an advertising platform for F2P games
• Microsoft buys Capptain
• App Annie combines App Store and Play data for the first time
• Minimum Viable Metrics for Mobile Applications
• Sega promotes football manager in bars

Interview

• Starling Framework Interview with developer Daniel Sperl
• The present and future of the mobile market

Activities

were:

• Deep disappointment or the first hackathon of the Moscow Government

Will be:

• Hackathon “Go ahead with Google” in Krasnoyarsk
• MoCO Conference • 2014 in Moscow
• Hackathon QIWI Universe in Kazan
• DevConf :: Mobi 2014

Devices

• A case that makes the space around the smartphone touch
• LG has rearranged laser autofocus on its smartphone with a vacuum cleaner

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