February 17, 2013 at 10:05The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week No. 2 (February 10 - 16, 2013)
This week a new jQuery Mobile came out with the long-awaited toolbar, Apple turned out to be too old-school and “irrelevant” for developers, while paying them $ 8 billion, the discussion of Nokia and the company's decision to switch to Windows Phone continued, and the NVIDIA Nsight Tegra plugin appeared for Visual Studio, with which you can create native Android applications in Java. In general, there is something to talk about.
How did Basecamp for iPhone on RubyMotion
Eng | About the Basecamp application
Knowing Basecamp for a long time, I want to think that the guys were in no hurry simply because they wanted to do everything as it should, and now - drum roll - on February 8, the first official Basecamp iOS application got to the App Store.
Apple paid developers $ 8 billion
Rus.
And 1 billion - in January 2013.
appFigures application for iPhone
Eng
An application for developers who want to use appFigures statistics on the go. The service itself simply aggregates data from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon, and presents it in an easy to understand form.
Google will pay Apple $ 1 billion in 2014 for the right to be the default search engine in iOS
Rus
Google will pay Apple in 2014 about $ 1 billion to Apple corporation so that the “good corporation” search service remains the default search engine in iOS. It is worth noting that in 2009 Google paid for the same right only 82 million dollars.
Applifier talks about Everyplay results and announces FaceCam
Eng | Rus | Rus
Everyplay allows users to record their game sessions in iOS and share them with friends, thus attracting new users and increasing the popularity of mobile games. Developers can integrate the service into their applications using the free Everyplay SDK. Jussi Laakkonen, founder and director of Applifier, also says that Everplay is designed to transmit the best gaming moments between friends, in digital form. People can share their replays via Facebook, YouTube or Twitter.
Apple is too old for
English developers | Rus
The most “relevant” company for developers now ... Microsoft. At least this is evidenced by a new Evans Data survey conducted among 450 developers. 90% of developers aged 46 to 50 choose Microsoft as the most appropriate company for their development plans, but it is more surprising that 2/3 of the remaining respondents in all age groups say the same. In second place in terms of popularity among developers is Google, which also ahead of 19 other companies in the race for the title of "Company that is likely to dominate in the next three years." Google is most popular with young developers - 72% under the age of 25 choose the search giant as the most appropriate for their plans.
Kleverbeast quickly and easily creates
English applications | Rus
Kleverbeast, created with the participation of the director and founder of Hatch Labs, Dinesh Murjani, today launches a public beta version, making the process of creating applications reach the masses, allowing everyone (even those who can not program) to create beautiful, rich in content applications in minutes. The service uses simple drag-and-drop tools to help users arrange app elements in the right order.
In-app Billing Subscriptions from the server
Rus
In-app Billing Subscriptions (subscriptions) allow you to automate the debit of funds from the user's account for applications developed for Android. This tool is a great assistant in the task of increasing application monetization. The article presents steps to provide server support for the monetization tool for In-App Billing version 2.
Android Application Development with C #
Rus
Monodroid and Monotouch are xamarin frameworks that allow you to develop a C # application for Android and iOS, respectively. Since this is a relatively new information technology on the Internet, there are not too many (with the exception of the off site and a large number of topics on stackoverflow.com), in Russian I did not find any tutorials and information in general. To eliminate this misunderstanding, I decided to write a small tutorial on how to start developing applications for mobile platforms using these frameworks. In this article, I will only consider Monodroid.
NVIDIA Nsight Tegra plugin will allow developing native Android applications in Java in Visual Studio
Eng | Rus
Nsight Tegra is a new plug-in for Visual Studio that allows you to develop native Android applications. Unlike, for example, Dot42, which requires the use of C #, Nsight uses Java and you can write and debug applications on it directly in Visual Studio. Nsight also provides enhanced NEON and promises 10% faster native code performance.
Samsung will leave Android already this year
Rus
For some it may sound incredible, however, Samsung really plans to abandon Google’s mobile OS. The company plans to release the first smartphone based on the new operating system by the end of this year.
Android 4.2.2 is available for some devices
Rus
Google has been ahead of its plans to demonstrate Android 4.2.2. It was previously planned that this version of the Android operating system will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2013. But the company decided to demonstrate the system earlier, and has already opened access to the update for some devices.
Publishing Applications to the Windows Store and Major Errors
Eng
So, your Windows 8 application is finalized and ready to be sent to the Windows Store. Your masterpiece can be downloaded by hundreds and thousands of users of Windows 8. You have made sure that your code is clean, double-checked unit tests and deployed it on various devices for triple verification. You are ready to submit your application for approval. But are you ready?
How to make the application more attractive to consumers in the Windows Phone Store
English
Again, a discussion of the icon, name, description and a couple of useful tips for describing your application in the store.
MonoGame 3.0
Rus released
Monogame is a free implementation of the game development framework from Microsoft - Microsoft XNA. Supported platforms are GNU / Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS.
Video review BlackBerry 10
Eng
In general, the system works quite smoothly, although in a couple of moments there were slight braking. This is probably due to the fact that the gadget in the frame is intended for developers and not the newest. But you can still get some opinion about the OS, as well as see successful BlackBerry solutions.
Sociality Rocks! 2013 San Francisco
The official site of
Sociality Rocks! 2013 San Francisco is the first conference for the Russian-speaking audience in Silicon Valley, which is entirely dedicated to social and mobile games. The venue, the Hilton San Francisco Financial District, as an ultramodern venue popular with business travelers, will undoubtedly be the ideal gathering place for an international social and mobile audience to share industry experience and news.
The next big categories of Facebook apps will be movies, books and fitness.
English | Eng
As Facebook is working on building partnerships with large media companies, it sees tremendous growth opportunities for tools that will enable it to find and share movies, books and fitness information. At D: Dive Into Media, Dan Rose’s Facebook Partnership Vice President, said the company expects new categories to be the growth driver for the next wave of applications in its ecosystem.
Apsalar Finds The Link Between Engagement And Monetization
Eng | Rus
Apsalar, a mobile analytics company, has tried to figure out which genres are best used by free-to-play iOS developers to maximize profits. Apsalar, which offers free SDKs with in-app purchases and analytics, found that some genres show a greater connection between player engagement and monetization through in-app purchases.
Twitter: mobile users are younger, more interested and easier to engage in advertising
Eng | Rus
Twitter has published data from a new study about its “predominantly mobile users” or those who go to Twitter more through mobile devices and the mobile network than from a PC. A study by Kantar Media Compete found that predominantly mobile Twitter users are more involved in several ways at once. They are significantly younger, and tend to be more susceptible to branded content than their computer counterparts.
SMS payments: how it works
Rus
Now you will not be surprised at the possibility of paying for services by sending an SMS message to a specific “short number”. Even the person farthest from the Internet could hear on TV: “Send an SMS to XXXX to vote for YYYY”, and at the bottom of the screen see the inscription: “* sending cost 30 rubles”. The article describes how this works.
Recession in investment in mobile games
Eng The
relative failure of Zynga has led investors to roll back from the mobile industry. In 2012, investments decreased by 40% compared to 2011.
Opera Report on Mobile Advertising in Q4 2012
Eng | Rus
Opera released a report on mobile advertising in the 4th quarter of 2012. The company's advertising network shows an average of 50 billion banners per month on 12,000 mobile sites and applications, in total, in 2012, Opera paid publishers more than $ 400 million. And in the fourth quarter, publishers ’impressions and revenues doubled (making the quarter a record), Android continued to grow - led by Samsung Galaxy S III.
Mobilewalla receives investment in analytics development
Rus
Mobilewalla was one of the first players on the application search field, but about a year ago the company announced that it was starting to engage in the analytic business. At that time, the description of the service looked pretty corny. For example, a MediaPost article describes a service as a combination of publicly available ratings data and private sales data, as well as mentions on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. According to the article, the startup has accumulated about 50 terabytes of data from the App Store and Google Play, and another terabyte is accumulated every week.
Nokia and the Elop effect: continued
Part 1 -> Part 2 -> Part 3
As far as Nokia’s official reports show, there were no prerequisites for the Burning Platform in Nokia’s position at the beginning of 2011, or in the company's dynamics. The company did not need a sharp change of course - the “anti-crisis measures” adopted by Elop were not in Nokia’s interests. Elop's assurances to the contrary are a deliberate lie.
The hype surrounding Nokia’s speedy crash isn’t justified, or what do analysts say?
Rus
Let's just wait a couple of weeks and do not make premature forecasts, let alone express the trendy opinion today that Microsoft is knocking down Nokia’s price in order to buy it cheaper later. Indeed, judging by the state of things, Microsoft is doing something wrong. The price of the company is growing steadily. A painful change of platform has passed and remains in history.
Screen sizes
Eng
Tablets and smartphones are equipped with screens with different aspect ratios and different pixel densities, however, these parameters are rarely indicated in the technical specifications. Let's try to deal with all the tricks associated with these parameters.
A tablet as a second screen under linux
Rus
I decided to try to use the tablet as an additional screen to my laptop with Linux to expand my workspace, touch input and remote control. There were 2 ways to do this. What I share.
Nexus 4 delivery from the USA in 4 days
Rus An
unfamiliar voice says: “Your package has arrived. We’ll bring it to your house in an hour. ” Stop! After all, she left only on Friday from your warehouse in the USA ?! Do not confuse anything? The courier convinced me that my package, and I agreed to delivery. An hour later, having arrived home, I met a courier and received a parcel from him with the brand new Nexus 4. To be honest, it was VERY unusual! Only recently I bought it, but now, I already have it.
Every 10 years, a cataclysm kills most mobile brands - and we are on the verge of the next
Eng |Rus | Best comment
Around 1994, most mobile brands claiming global dominance disappeared or returned to their home markets. The same thing happened in 2003. And now we are close to the next Death of the Gods, a period of destruction and chaos that only a few manufacturers will survive.
Ubuntu Phone will be available for download next week
Rus
Ubuntu Phone installation image for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 will be available for download next week. Canonical has already announced this today. Starting February 21, two collected images will be available for download.
jQuery Mobile 1.3
Eng
RC 1.3.0 with a long-awaited toolbar widget, bidirectional sliders and new “responsive” layout.
Optimization of 2d applications for mobile devices in Unity3d
Rus The
article will be useful to any Unity developers (and not only project managers and technicians, but just programmers, artists and designers), because it affects both Unity optimization in general and specifically Optimization of 2d applications for mobile devices.
Little geniuses: testing applications with children
Rus
In testing applications from Little Beetle, children are always involved - the end users of our products. Before the release of the updated version of the Little Genius 2.0 application, we once again invited young testers to our office.
TapCanvas leaves beta beta
English | Rus
TapCanvas, a startup that helps people with limited programming skills to create mobile apps, today left the beta stage and announced the start of collaboration with Eventbrite to create event management apps. Despite the fact that there are many other application designers (there are at least a few dozen of them), TapCanvas differs from them due to its focus on creating one-time, context-sensitive applications using web technologies like HTML5, and not applications for the largest application stores of leading platforms.
GoDaddy bought M.dot to create mobile websites
Eng | Rus
GoDaddy, a giant in the field of web hosting and domain registration, took another step towards the mobile market, enabling small businesses to organize all their online activity through a single simple store, which also works on the basis of the freemium model. Today, it announced the acquisition of M.dot, a startup developing an iOS app that allows users to create mobile websites. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but most likely amounted to $ 15 million.
iOS
How did Basecamp for iPhone on RubyMotion
Eng | About the Basecamp application
Knowing Basecamp for a long time, I want to think that the guys were in no hurry simply because they wanted to do everything as it should, and now - drum roll - on February 8, the first official Basecamp iOS application got to the App Store.
Apple paid developers $ 8 billion
Rus.
And 1 billion - in January 2013.
appFigures application for iPhone
Eng
An application for developers who want to use appFigures statistics on the go. The service itself simply aggregates data from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon, and presents it in an easy to understand form.
Google will pay Apple $ 1 billion in 2014 for the right to be the default search engine in iOS
Rus
Google will pay Apple in 2014 about $ 1 billion to Apple corporation so that the “good corporation” search service remains the default search engine in iOS. It is worth noting that in 2009 Google paid for the same right only 82 million dollars.
Applifier talks about Everyplay results and announces FaceCam
Eng | Rus | Rus
Everyplay allows users to record their game sessions in iOS and share them with friends, thus attracting new users and increasing the popularity of mobile games. Developers can integrate the service into their applications using the free Everyplay SDK. Jussi Laakkonen, founder and director of Applifier, also says that Everplay is designed to transmit the best gaming moments between friends, in digital form. People can share their replays via Facebook, YouTube or Twitter.
Apple is too old for
English developers | Rus
The most “relevant” company for developers now ... Microsoft. At least this is evidenced by a new Evans Data survey conducted among 450 developers. 90% of developers aged 46 to 50 choose Microsoft as the most appropriate company for their development plans, but it is more surprising that 2/3 of the remaining respondents in all age groups say the same. In second place in terms of popularity among developers is Google, which also ahead of 19 other companies in the race for the title of "Company that is likely to dominate in the next three years." Google is most popular with young developers - 72% under the age of 25 choose the search giant as the most appropriate for their plans.
Kleverbeast quickly and easily creates
English applications | Rus
Kleverbeast, created with the participation of the director and founder of Hatch Labs, Dinesh Murjani, today launches a public beta version, making the process of creating applications reach the masses, allowing everyone (even those who can not program) to create beautiful, rich in content applications in minutes. The service uses simple drag-and-drop tools to help users arrange app elements in the right order.
Android
In-app Billing Subscriptions from the server
Rus
In-app Billing Subscriptions (subscriptions) allow you to automate the debit of funds from the user's account for applications developed for Android. This tool is a great assistant in the task of increasing application monetization. The article presents steps to provide server support for the monetization tool for In-App Billing version 2.
Android Application Development with C #
Rus
Monodroid and Monotouch are xamarin frameworks that allow you to develop a C # application for Android and iOS, respectively. Since this is a relatively new information technology on the Internet, there are not too many (with the exception of the off site and a large number of topics on stackoverflow.com), in Russian I did not find any tutorials and information in general. To eliminate this misunderstanding, I decided to write a small tutorial on how to start developing applications for mobile platforms using these frameworks. In this article, I will only consider Monodroid.
NVIDIA Nsight Tegra plugin will allow developing native Android applications in Java in Visual Studio
Eng | Rus
Nsight Tegra is a new plug-in for Visual Studio that allows you to develop native Android applications. Unlike, for example, Dot42, which requires the use of C #, Nsight uses Java and you can write and debug applications on it directly in Visual Studio. Nsight also provides enhanced NEON and promises 10% faster native code performance.
Samsung will leave Android already this year
Rus
For some it may sound incredible, however, Samsung really plans to abandon Google’s mobile OS. The company plans to release the first smartphone based on the new operating system by the end of this year.
Android 4.2.2 is available for some devices
Rus
Google has been ahead of its plans to demonstrate Android 4.2.2. It was previously planned that this version of the Android operating system will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2013. But the company decided to demonstrate the system earlier, and has already opened access to the update for some devices.
Windows
Publishing Applications to the Windows Store and Major Errors
Eng
So, your Windows 8 application is finalized and ready to be sent to the Windows Store. Your masterpiece can be downloaded by hundreds and thousands of users of Windows 8. You have made sure that your code is clean, double-checked unit tests and deployed it on various devices for triple verification. You are ready to submit your application for approval. But are you ready?
How to make the application more attractive to consumers in the Windows Phone Store
English
Again, a discussion of the icon, name, description and a couple of useful tips for describing your application in the store.
MonoGame 3.0
Rus released
Monogame is a free implementation of the game development framework from Microsoft - Microsoft XNA. Supported platforms are GNU / Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS.
Blackberry
Video review BlackBerry 10
Eng
In general, the system works quite smoothly, although in a couple of moments there were slight braking. This is probably due to the fact that the gadget in the frame is intended for developers and not the newest. But you can still get some opinion about the OS, as well as see successful BlackBerry solutions.
Conferences
Sociality Rocks! 2013 San Francisco
The official site of
Sociality Rocks! 2013 San Francisco is the first conference for the Russian-speaking audience in Silicon Valley, which is entirely dedicated to social and mobile games. The venue, the Hilton San Francisco Financial District, as an ultramodern venue popular with business travelers, will undoubtedly be the ideal gathering place for an international social and mobile audience to share industry experience and news.
Applications
The next big categories of Facebook apps will be movies, books and fitness.
English | Eng
As Facebook is working on building partnerships with large media companies, it sees tremendous growth opportunities for tools that will enable it to find and share movies, books and fitness information. At D: Dive Into Media, Dan Rose’s Facebook Partnership Vice President, said the company expects new categories to be the growth driver for the next wave of applications in its ecosystem.
Apsalar Finds The Link Between Engagement And Monetization
Eng | Rus
Apsalar, a mobile analytics company, has tried to figure out which genres are best used by free-to-play iOS developers to maximize profits. Apsalar, which offers free SDKs with in-app purchases and analytics, found that some genres show a greater connection between player engagement and monetization through in-app purchases.
Twitter: mobile users are younger, more interested and easier to engage in advertising
Eng | Rus
Twitter has published data from a new study about its “predominantly mobile users” or those who go to Twitter more through mobile devices and the mobile network than from a PC. A study by Kantar Media Compete found that predominantly mobile Twitter users are more involved in several ways at once. They are significantly younger, and tend to be more susceptible to branded content than their computer counterparts.
Money
SMS payments: how it works
Rus
Now you will not be surprised at the possibility of paying for services by sending an SMS message to a specific “short number”. Even the person farthest from the Internet could hear on TV: “Send an SMS to XXXX to vote for YYYY”, and at the bottom of the screen see the inscription: “* sending cost 30 rubles”. The article describes how this works.
Recession in investment in mobile games
Eng The
relative failure of Zynga has led investors to roll back from the mobile industry. In 2012, investments decreased by 40% compared to 2011.
Opera Report on Mobile Advertising in Q4 2012
Eng | Rus
Opera released a report on mobile advertising in the 4th quarter of 2012. The company's advertising network shows an average of 50 billion banners per month on 12,000 mobile sites and applications, in total, in 2012, Opera paid publishers more than $ 400 million. And in the fourth quarter, publishers ’impressions and revenues doubled (making the quarter a record), Android continued to grow - led by Samsung Galaxy S III.
Mobilewalla receives investment in analytics development
Rus
Mobilewalla was one of the first players on the application search field, but about a year ago the company announced that it was starting to engage in the analytic business. At that time, the description of the service looked pretty corny. For example, a MediaPost article describes a service as a combination of publicly available ratings data and private sales data, as well as mentions on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. According to the article, the startup has accumulated about 50 terabytes of data from the App Store and Google Play, and another terabyte is accumulated every week.
Devices
Nokia and the Elop effect: continued
Part 1 -> Part 2 -> Part 3
As far as Nokia’s official reports show, there were no prerequisites for the Burning Platform in Nokia’s position at the beginning of 2011, or in the company's dynamics. The company did not need a sharp change of course - the “anti-crisis measures” adopted by Elop were not in Nokia’s interests. Elop's assurances to the contrary are a deliberate lie.
The hype surrounding Nokia’s speedy crash isn’t justified, or what do analysts say?
Rus
Let's just wait a couple of weeks and do not make premature forecasts, let alone express the trendy opinion today that Microsoft is knocking down Nokia’s price in order to buy it cheaper later. Indeed, judging by the state of things, Microsoft is doing something wrong. The price of the company is growing steadily. A painful change of platform has passed and remains in history.
Screen sizes
Eng
Tablets and smartphones are equipped with screens with different aspect ratios and different pixel densities, however, these parameters are rarely indicated in the technical specifications. Let's try to deal with all the tricks associated with these parameters.
A tablet as a second screen under linux
Rus
I decided to try to use the tablet as an additional screen to my laptop with Linux to expand my workspace, touch input and remote control. There were 2 ways to do this. What I share.
Nexus 4 delivery from the USA in 4 days
Rus An
unfamiliar voice says: “Your package has arrived. We’ll bring it to your house in an hour. ” Stop! After all, she left only on Friday from your warehouse in the USA ?! Do not confuse anything? The courier convinced me that my package, and I agreed to delivery. An hour later, having arrived home, I met a courier and received a parcel from him with the brand new Nexus 4. To be honest, it was VERY unusual! Only recently I bought it, but now, I already have it.
Every 10 years, a cataclysm kills most mobile brands - and we are on the verge of the next
Eng |Rus | Best comment
Around 1994, most mobile brands claiming global dominance disappeared or returned to their home markets. The same thing happened in 2003. And now we are close to the next Death of the Gods, a period of destruction and chaos that only a few manufacturers will survive.
Ubuntu Phone will be available for download next week
Rus
Ubuntu Phone installation image for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 will be available for download next week. Canonical has already announced this today. Starting February 21, two collected images will be available for download.
Other in mobile development
jQuery Mobile 1.3
Eng
RC 1.3.0 with a long-awaited toolbar widget, bidirectional sliders and new “responsive” layout.
Optimization of 2d applications for mobile devices in Unity3d
Rus The
article will be useful to any Unity developers (and not only project managers and technicians, but just programmers, artists and designers), because it affects both Unity optimization in general and specifically Optimization of 2d applications for mobile devices.
Little geniuses: testing applications with children
Rus
In testing applications from Little Beetle, children are always involved - the end users of our products. Before the release of the updated version of the Little Genius 2.0 application, we once again invited young testers to our office.
TapCanvas leaves beta beta
English | Rus
TapCanvas, a startup that helps people with limited programming skills to create mobile apps, today left the beta stage and announced the start of collaboration with Eventbrite to create event management apps. Despite the fact that there are many other application designers (there are at least a few dozen of them), TapCanvas differs from them due to its focus on creating one-time, context-sensitive applications using web technologies like HTML5, and not applications for the largest application stores of leading platforms.
GoDaddy bought M.dot to create mobile websites
Eng | Rus
GoDaddy, a giant in the field of web hosting and domain registration, took another step towards the mobile market, enabling small businesses to organize all their online activity through a single simple store, which also works on the basis of the freemium model. Today, it announced the acquisition of M.dot, a startup developing an iOS app that allows users to create mobile websites. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but most likely amounted to $ 15 million.