The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week No. 38 (January 20-26, 2014)

Last week VKontakte released its SDK for Android, Apple “opened” iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager for Russia, and Distimo and App Annie shared information about the Asian region’s superiority in the mobile application market.

The best

Objective-D - an alternative or addition to Objective-C

I developed another language that generates Objective-C code. Therefore, in this language you can easily use the Objective-C and C function classes. You can also easily use the generated classes in Objective-C code. So there is an opportunity to conduct development in two languages ​​at once. I called this language Objective-D.

VKontakte introduced the SDK for Android

The popular social network VKontakte has replenished its set of toolkits for developing applications, which already have Flash and Javascript SDKs, as well as SDKs for iOS, and another SDK for Android.

The realities of mobile gamedev - Mobile game: where is the money? - Attracting users to a mobile game

A series of articles on the development of mobile games from the head of one of the Russian gaming studios.

iOS

• Creating a tweak on the example of the Phone application
• Why is NSURLSession better than NSURLConnection
• iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager in Russia

Android

• Working with geofences in Android
• Design review of Android 4.4 KitKat. Part 1
• Following the trail of the bug and a bit about the MotionEvent events in Android
• China introduced its own national operating system

Development

• How statistics help make Yandex. Traffic better
• Everything you think about Nintendo is fundamentally wrong
• GameAnalytics offers free analytics to Corona Labs developers
• Mixpanel offers developers targeted notifications within apps
• SpriteBuilder: iOS and Android Games on Objective-C in Xcode
• The Google Glasses app will help you have sex and fire
• Duologue: a new quality control tool for application designers

Marketing and monetization

• How to evaluate user experience?
• Distimo: Asia - The World's Top Application Market
• Whatsapp: we always have time to earn money
• State of Mobile Advertising for the fourth quarter: Android smartphones for the first time outperform iPhone in terms of mobile ad impressions
• On Wednesday, we are holding the next webinar “Features of Application Promotion in Asian Markets”