The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 256 developer (on June 3-12)

This time it turned out a rather short release and it features the epic Tower Defense, animated transitions, the developer platform from Snapchat, the sudden psychology in IT from the creator of Kotlin, and much more.

Creating Tower Defense in Unity

Tower defense games are gaining popularity, and this is not surprising - little can be compared with the pleasure of observing your own lines of defense that destroy evil enemies! In this two-part tutorial, we will create a tower defense game on the Unity engine!

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iOS

• Apple has released beta of MapKit JS for the web
• Apple has banned cryptocurrency mining on iOS
• HealthKit and Apple Watch - data and authorization
• Create UITabBarController framework
• Xcode: improve Assistant Editor
• Train text classifier with Create ML and Natural Language Framework
• SwiftEntryKit: popups , banners and dialog boxes
• MessengerKit: UI framework for messages
• IAPKit: framework for managing

Android in- app purchases

• (+5) From sketching to Google Play or how I made my first android application
• Google made it possible to partially refund
• Activity and its life cycle
• Styling international texts in Android
• 14 popular applications who switched to Kotlin
• Create a calendar of events with a material design
• Tips for elegant Android development
• Android MVI: Android MVI template on Kotlin
• Kotlin 1.2.50 released

Development

• (+37) Unity3D ECS and Job System
• (+17)Animated transitions in mobile applications
• (+11) One, Two, Three! Chatbot from Google Tables on the example of a PvP game for Alice
• Developer Diaries: Babycare No. 8
• Google launched the App Maker app builder for G Suite
• Snapchat launched the developer platform
• Podlodka # 63: Psychology and IT
• Facebook posted its Sonar debugger on open source
• Best words create better products
• Flutter task app
• 18 tips for creating a successful mobile app
• Serverless mobile app with React Native and AWS
•What is splashscreen and why is it important
• WWDC 2018: Creating fluid interfaces
• 15 libraries of sliders and regulators [Java, Swift, Kotlin]

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+16) Launch mobile retargeting with Adjust: settings, reports and links
• “ Branch Mobile Growth Guide 2018 ”by Branch
• Mobile growth technologies: 50+ tools for mobile marketers
• Difference in promotion on the App Store and Google Play: Diveo Media experience
• How to turn user research into smart solutions

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+109) Deep Learning on Toes Course
• (+56)Kaggle: Amazon from Space - tricks and hacks when training neural networks
• (+49) The full development cycle of the IoT device for pool heating control on ESP8266 in the Arduino environment
• (+24) Prediction of the results of the 2018 World Cup by random forests algorithm
• AI Uber will start detecting drunk passengers

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