Useful materials for the mobile developer # 49 (April 14-20)

This week there was a very interesting article on "mobile" pricing from Oleg Yakubenkov from Zeptolab, a preview version of WP 8.1 was released and an announcement of changes was published in the Windows and Windows Phone application stores, and the App Annie Market Index for the first quarter was released. Well, a lot of other interesting news in the weekly digest.

Pricing experiments. Features of human perception.

As always, a great article by Oleg Yakubenkov from Zeptolab. It describes the various psychological aspects of price perception and how it can be used in your business, including when selling mobile applications.

Ubuntu on Meizu MX3 smartphone - what does it look like?

Meizu has signed an agreement with Canonical, becoming one of the first companies producing ubuntu smartphones. And the other day, Meizu posted on the Web a video of the operation of this OS on a MX3 smartphone.

Presented the first prototype modular smartphone from Google

A few days ago, Google, at a conference for developers, presented the first prototype of its modular smartphone Ara (one cannot fail to note the article “ Memories of the future: revolutionary projects that we have already seen before ”).

Always on: UX innovations in modern smartphones

At the conference, Yota Devices spoke about the ideology of the company and how its devices can be useful to all those who create Android applications.

App Annie Market Index for the 1st quarter of 2014

The new App Annie Market Index report on the growth of the application ecosystem in different countries has been released. It monitors the application market (iOS App Store and Google Play) in the first quarter of 2014 in 150 countries, emphasizes trends and their likely impact on the business of developers.

iOS

• Another 2048, now triangular
• Confidential data leak when caching network requests on the iOS platform
• Optimizely Launches A / B Testing Platform for iOS

Android

• Walking the rake and circles when creating a game from scratch
• Making a remake of Chopper Duel on Android
• VSDCT on OpenGL ES 3
• Chrome Remote Desktop - now connect to your PC and from your Android smartphone
• Automate Acceptance Testing of Android Applications with Calabash
• Build your Android for BeagleBoard
• LÖVE + Android + AdMob = friendship
• Creating standalone libraries for Android
• Google opened registration for I / O 2014

Microsoft

• 7 tips for promoting Windows Store apps
• Code sharing between WP, Win8. Part 2 and Part 1
• Build 2014. Announced Changes in Windows and Windows Phone App Stores
• Microsoft released Developer Preview version of Windows Phone 8.1

Tizen

• Tizen Developer Lab in St. Petersburg

Development

• Ratchet 2.0 - the most beautiful HTML5 framework is now friends with both iOS and Android
• Cloud chat platform for mobile apps
• Checking Unreal Engine 4
• Telerik Opens Kendo UI
• Unity Acquires Playnomics Analytics
• Stages of developing a game for mobile platforms

Marketing and monetization

• Is F2P the only way? Out There Becomes Profitable Three Weeks After Exiting
• (English) Clash of Clans Monetization Analysis
• Twitter started selling install ads through MoPub
• LINE opens sticker sale for everyone
• Newzoo: 247 companies managed to earn more than $ 1 million in the US mobile gaming market
• ASO study using myVEGAS as an example: how reviews influence search positions
• Localytics explored the “loss window” of users
• Ads by Google - for "losers"
• Interview about the conflict between Supercell and Appia

Devices

• Evernote and Moleskine introduced a synthesis of notepad and applications
• Mobile Phone Laboratory Microscope
• Google received a patent for contact lenses with a camcorder
• Samsung Galaxy S5 Review

← Last week’s digest . If I missed something, send it to the mail, I will quickly add it.