Useful materials for the mobile developer # 48 (April 7-13)
Some excellent stories about first-hand application development, legal educational program for indie developers, grants from Microsoft, a story about a traditional side menu that "took" half of users - all this and much more in a weekly selection of news from the world of mobile development.
We undertook to implement a test project. A small casual game. This article is about how we published on Google Play, how we failed to publish on Greenlight and what surprises awaited us in the AppStore.
For a long time I was tormented by questions: “Will I pull? Or will I spend a whole year writing such a simple game? ”,“ Do I need it at all? ”,“ But will anyone but me play it? ”,“ I’m not a designer and I don’t know how to draw with this? ”,“ Is the idea so good, as it seems to me? ”
Today, I will show with a real example how to develop applications for Firefox OS, which supports most of modern web technologies, and, generally speaking, was created for them and thanks to them.
During the conversation, in which other colleagues participated, it turned out that indie developers pay very little attention to legal issues in their work, creating the necessary documents on the residual principle. We decided to fill this gap and hold a small “educational program” with a practicing lawyer.
iOS
Android
Windows phone
Development
Marketing and monetization
Devices
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Followed by publication on Google Play / App Store / Steam Greenlight |
The story of how a dynamic programming task became an idea for a game and changed its attitude towards work |
Application development for Firefox OS on a real-life example |
Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and License Agreement: educational program for a mobile indie developer |
iOS
- Multithreaded Core Data
- How we HackPSU won
- (English) The correct way to ask permissions in an iOS app
- What it means to work at Apple: employee stories about the company's worst side
Android
- What to do if there is no Android device at hand? Overview of Android Emulators
- Heartbleed and Android
- Android will constantly monitor installed applications for malware
- Capture video in OpenGL applications with Intel INDE Media Pack
- Android development for Chromecast Ready
- Save memory: Picasso vs UniversalImageLoader
- Twitter acquires Cover
Windows phone
- Qt is now on Windows Phone
- Universal applications for Windows and Windows Phone
- About how to get a grant of € 70,000 for the Windows Phone app
- Microsoft Introduces Windows for Machines
Development
- Sidebar in app can cost half of users
- Design Photo Frames for Yandex.Disk for Android and Windows
- Famo.us Launches Open Beta Testing of Its HTML5 Framework
- 16 reasons why software startups fail
- NaturalMotion: don't be afraid to close projects
- Distimo offers Conversion Tracking plugin for PhoneGap
- The webOS team posted all the best practices on the interface
- (Eng.) VisionMobile's Seventh Developer Economics Study
- (English) 5 Tips for Making the Right Application Update Schedule
Marketing and monetization
- Guilty Millionaires: Will Game Development Make You Happier?
- Supercell vs. Air Sellers
- 6 tips from Apple to create a better icon
- App.io Turns Applications Into Interactive Advertising
- Swrve: most players leave after the first day
- (English) Selling Candies to Children: Longrid on F2P and Children
- (Eng.) Best Affiliate and CPA Mobile Ad Networks
Devices
- Project Ara modular smartphone project is open to third-party developers
- Google will provide all residents of the United States within one day to buy glasses Google Glass
- Daniel Seeberg: How to stop perceiving a smartphone as part of the body
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