The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 281 developer (on January 7 - 13)

Welcome to the new year! Thank you for reading our digests and sharing materials! This week we have a wonderful story about how to stay without the “Bulda”, the most earned and downloaded applications in different categories, quick fails, application marketing in 2019 and much more.

Patent trolls start and win: how I was left without a game

Everything is extremely simple: since the end of 2017, the company Paritet Elekt LLC has become the exclusive copyright holder of the Balda trademark, and only Paritet Elevator has the right to release games under this name. At the beginning of 2018, dozens of different games called “Balda” were removed from application stores. There was only one, protected by Rospatent.

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iOS

• (+34)  How to embed C-library in a Swift framework
• (+3)  Keeping imperfections in check
• App Store completes the record year of 2018 the highest grossing New Year’s week
• New Year project - movie application in 7 days
• iOS Project Template: template iOS project with all

Android integrations

• (+11) Navigation inside the Android application
• (+7)  Parse & Android: recommendations for novice developers
• Android Dev Podcast # 83. New Year's results
• We create a recorder on Kotlin
• Thoughts after two years of working as an Android developer
• Android SDK: Drawing using patterns
• Background tasks in Android: we use WorkManager
• Injecting dependencies into a multi-module project
• Kissme: multi-platform library for safe storage on Kotlin
• StfalconPriceRangeBar : library for adding a price range with a graph like in Airbnb

Development

• (+ 83)  What is wrong with GraphQL +  And how to deal with it
• (+25)  Mathematics in Gamedev is simple. Triangulations and Triangle.Net in Unity
• (+22)  “Why do you need to feil quickly”: Steve Cotton from Bungie about the creative process in the company
• (+20)  Developing a game and defending a diploma or “How I killed two birds with one stone first pancake”
• ( +20)  Architectural solutions for a mobile game. Part 1: Model  + Part 2: Command and their queues
• (+19)  An example of a client-server application on Flutter
• (+19)  We use SQLite in Flutter
• (+12)  How to work with Shader Graph in Unity3D
• (+9)  Management of application state in Flutter
• (+4) Flutter: is it worth it to start
• Unity banned SpatialOS
• AWS replaced MongoDB with its database
• Square released SDKs for Android, iOS and Flutter
• Corona 2D game engine becomes open
• React Native development status in early 2019
• Jibe social platform: UX research
• Figma Export: exporting components from Figma documents

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+12)  Promotion of a mobile application with real experience in numbers
• Forecasts: Mobile marketing in 2019
• Is ASO a fiction?
•The most downloaded applications for trips
• The most earning applications for dates
• Mobile is one way to survive the retail apocalypse
• The most earning applications in the Health and Fitness category
• Gamification: motivation model
• The best analytical platforms for iOS applications

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+48)  Development of Adblock Radio
• (+17)  Data Science: books for entry-level
• Smartphone market in Russia set a new record
• Analyzing football using Tensorflow and OpenCV
• Step-by-step guide on creating a simple AI for playing chess you

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