The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 245 (March 12 — March 18)

The holidays are all over and now we have a lot of interesting materials in the digest - about the success of the California roll, the right animation, the fight against Siri inside Apple, cross-platform development, juniors and middles.

People do not want something really new - they want the usual, but done differently

I must admit that bento lunch is hardly a source of serious business lessons. However, let's take a look at the California roll - understanding the impact of this iconic Japanese dish can help lead your product to success and avoid failure.

How to make a good UI animation great

In the material, the translation of which we are publishing today, designer Pablo Stanley offers several recommendations for animating microinteractions in the user interface.

Seven years of throwing: how Siri became a problem

Seven years later, Siri became a problem. It is because of it that the Apple smart speaker does not sell so well, despite the excellent design and sound quality. The Information spoke to several former Apple employees who were responsible for creating Siri or integrating it into the ecosystem.

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iOS

• (+31) How to adapt the game on Unity for iPhone X by April
• (+11) How to make friends Siri and Xiaomi
• (+7) Security basics: Keychain and Hashing
• How to create a form for registering and entering an iOS application in 15 minutes
• Apple opened registration at WWDC
•Avoiding interface errors in iOS 11
• How it all started: ten years of the iPhone SDK
• Making a stopwatch on Swift
• Best iOS hacks from Twitter in January and February
• JPEG decoding in UIImageView
• Trust: Ethereum wallet and Web3 DApp browser for iOS

Android

• (+29) Guide to background work in Android. Part 3: Executors and EventBus
• (+12) Google leanback - big brother care
• How the size of the APK depends on the application development method
• Android Wear turns into Wear OS
• What is GraphQL and how to use it in Android
•Exploring Android P: cutouts on the screen
• Crop images from custom Glide Transformation
• Who will steal Android from Google?
• Code Clean-up with Kotlin
• Profilo: monitoring application performance from Facebook
• Stop putting conditions in your View models
• Critical errors in Android development
• Android Context needs isolation
• Tensor & Flow: TensorFlow and machine learning on Android
• What is Zygote! ?
• Google Play Console Guide
• Choose Kotlin for your next Android project
•We speed up the application with Android Profiler
• json-2-kotlin: JSON to Kotlin data class converter

Development

• (+100) Yandex opens Alice for all developers
• (+49) How to try on the crown
• (+24) Native or not? 4 myths about cross-platform development
• (+13) Mobile 3D game on Unity3D in less than 90 hours
• (+12) Designing habits, UX-trends and UX-career. Interview by Brian Pagan
• (+4) Notes on meeting the requirements of VR platforms
• Why you should not be a junior developer
• News for busy people: UI / UX study for The New York Times app
•Google Maps can be used in games
• Facebook Instant Games opened for all developers
• Podlodka # 50: Kotlin and Swift
• 326 days of work on a large release for 3 million users
• Supernova turns Sketch layouts into native code
• What they do, where they work and what they love developers: 2018 Stack Overflow study
• CinemaTinder, or how to save humanity from the pangs of choosing films
• Google Summer of Code announces a new set of students
• AppTractor podcast: Flutter
• 2017 Full Indie Summit video
• Cryptocurrency cost tracker on Flutter
•620+ free courses for March
• Tools for Xamarin development
• End of dispute: does a startup need to make an iOS or Android application?
• Ionic vs React Native: which is better?
• Mobile design trends 2018
• Plex: a new font from IBM

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• “Social experience that everyone can understand”: 500K users for Volley voice games
• AdMob has rewarded gaming ads
• Game of Whales improves game monetization with through machine learning
• App Annie: 2017 gaming industry overview
• CARE model: onboarding as a single system
• Analysis of 3,300 banners from the Google Play Store

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+43) Reinforced coffee machine
• (+14) First steps in machine learning
• (+12) Web-controlled devices
• (+11) How to write quickly and roll out a machine learning algorithm into production
• DeepLab on Tensorflow describes photos
• Biased algorithms: job loss is not the most important problem in the development of artificial intelligence
• Internet of things digest: February 2018
• AVA: the art and science of image search in Netflix
• Intel is fighting for the future

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