March 2, 2014 at 15:21Useful materials for mobile developer # 42 (February 24 - March 2)
In this selection * analysis of mobile gaming trends for 2014, blocking Apple accounts of Russian developers, a rather pessimistic forecast for the development of the industry from Oleg Yakubenkov, news from MWC, a new consolidated rating of product developers.
It is always interesting to predict what will happen in the future. The year 2014, for the mobile games industry at the peak of its development, will definitely be rich in events that can make serious changes in the alignment of forces in the market.
The ranking was performed only for the agent segment - companies developing custom applications.
We consciously want to move away from evaluations - is it bad or good to develop cross-platform applications, and focus on the difficulties that you will encounter in terms of developing and maintaining these applications.
On February 19, information began to be massively reported to iOS application developer forums that Apple for no apparent reason was blocking development accounts from the Russian Federation with the phrase "Apple has good reason to believe that you violated this Section due to documented indications of fraudulent conduct associated with your account" , which is essentially a charge of fraud.
As one of the speakers at the Product Camp conference said, in the mobile app stores there is an arena where all popular apps fight, getting users and money, and there is a cemetery where the remaining million apps lie. Unfortunately, in view of the reasons discussed earlier, the chances of getting into the arena every day with new mobile applications are less and less, the chances of a mobile application becoming profitable.
iOS
Android
Development
Marketing and monetization
Devices
* Yes, this is a continuation of the weekly digests that I did for Apps4All. Unfortunately, our paths diverged, but didn’t leave the good deal halfway? If you have ideas how to improve the selection or materials that are not included in it - write in a personal.
 | 10 mobile gaming market trends in 2014 |
 | 2014 Unified Developer Ratings |
 | Is cross-platform development on Titanium a terrible end or horror without an end? |
 | Apple massively blocks developer accounts from the Russian Federation |
 | Mobile application market. Why your mobile application has little chance. |
iOS
- February 24, 2014 Steve Jobs would have turned 59 years old
- Critical bug in CoreGraphics on iOS
- iOS in the Car will be presented next week
- (English) Design section of Apple Developer site
Android
- Google published its launcher in the Market. We put it on HTC One
- Connected Volvo at MWC 2014
- Details of Gradle Tasks
- How we created Robot Pashka
- Nokia X Platform SDK released
- Samsung introduced the corporate application store Samsung KNOX Marketplace
Development
- (English) Spritz - Fast Reading System for Web, iOS and Android
- Ministry of Education and Science: programming cannot be taught exclusively remotely
- The "non-creative" side of localization. Project through the eyes of a translator
- Google Introduces Oppia Online Learning Tool
- Box2d: anatomy of collisions
- TestFairy invites TestFlight customers
- Samsung announced support for multi-screen games
- What should a developer do to stay ahead of the competition?
- Cordova now supports Firefox OS
Marketing and monetization
- European Commission: Fritupley? Then no in-app purchases!
- Telegram downloaded 8 million people after the purchase of WhatsApp
- Think Gaming helps make or find box office hit
- Midverse offers “Quality Engagement” gaming ad network for Android
- Rovio opens a publishing house for children's educational games
- Top 25 MobileAppTracking Mobile Ad Networks
- About 50% of all profit in free-to-play games brings 0.15% of players
- Free book "Apponomics - The Insider's guide to a Billion Dollar App Business"
Devices
- Samsung introduced a new flagship smartphone - GALAXY S5
- Yota Devices Introduces Second Generation YotaPhone
- YotaPhone Functional Cases - Inkcase
- Nokia has released a line of phones based on Android OS
- Mozilla announced the “25-dollar smartphone”
- How inside navigation works
- Google modular smartphone “Project Ara” goes on sale in 2015
- Why Intel will not leave the mobile market
- Smart City at Mobile World Congress 2014
* Yes, this is a continuation of the weekly digests that I did for Apps4All. Unfortunately, our paths diverged, but didn’t leave the good deal halfway? If you have ideas how to improve the selection or materials that are not included in it - write in a personal.