The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 237 (January 15-21) / Digital Ecosystems company blog

In the new digest, we talk about the special magic of HQ Trivia, the most unusual puzzle in Google Play, instant localization, the results of 2017 and the prospects for 2018.

Perhaps the most unusual puzzle on Google Play

I recently calculated that for 5 years I have been creating games in my spare time from my main job. During this period, I made several games that can be called successful, judging by the number of downloads. But for the present, I am only proud of the latter, it is depicted in the picture above. No, this is not a lootbox game. This is a set of puzzles, the main idea of ​​which is to combine diverse puzzles with one plot.

Motion gesture recognition on Android using Tensorflow

Today, there are many different ways to interact with smartphones: a touch screen, hardware buttons, a fingerprint scanner, a video camera (such as a face recognition system), D-PAD, buttons on a headset, and so on. But what about using gesture gestures?

IPhone 2G reverse engineering

To conduct the experiments, we need the phone itself launched by Jajebreak, the IFunBox program for viewing and modifying system files, the IDA disassembler, and the HEX editor. I have installed iOS 3.1.3 on my phone, but these modifications will work on other versions (maybe).

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iOS

• (+13) How to cache AVURLAsset data downloaded by AVPLayer
• (+8) Reports from the meeting of iOS developers Red Hot Chili Apples
• The App Store has updated its web version
• Apple plans to combine applications for iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Apple started selling Colgate smart toothbrush
•Apple will invest $ 350 billion in the US economy
• 50 questions and answers for interviewing iOS developers: Part 1
• App Store paid $ 26.5 billion to developers in 2017
• How to use SnapKit for programmatic description of constants
• Best way to update UICollectionView using DeepDiff
• Parallel programming on Swift
• RSParser: parser RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, RSS-inJSON, OPML and HTML

Android

• (+9) We simplify the work with RecyclerView as much as possible
• (+8) Expressive Kotlin. Extensions
• (+3) Communication between a computer and an Android device through Processing
•BlueStacks supports Android 7.0
• Android Things: 0 to “Hello World”
• Android Dev Podcast. Issue 54. DevOps
• We use a widget for an application with our font
• A free book on Android development based on answers with Stack Overflow
• A simple weather application on Kotlin, Retrofit and RxJava2
• Become an Android artist
• Implement a presenter with Rx or functional reactive architecture
• 25 new Android libraries and projects that are worth a look at the beginning of 2018
• Working with GraphQL
• Preparing an Android application to work on a Chromebook
•SdkSearch: Android SDK documentation

Development

• (+52) Updating lines on the fly in mobile applications: Part 1
• (+32) How to write your own game engine in C ++
• (+28) How many participants can be in a WebRTC call?
• (+16) Technological demo Book of the Dead and new features of Unity 2018
• (+4) We develop reusable reusable components
• Oculus launched Oculus Start developer support program
• What emojis are most used by programmers
• Stories of developers who got their first job after 30, 40 and 50 years old
•How I participated in the hackathon with 13 days of programming experience
• How the Wikipedia application gets ready to work offline
• How the creation of Apple emojis changed my life
• “Games are art and incredibly hard work”: Vyacheslav Utochkin on creating games in Russia and game trends industry
• Podlodka # 42: Design systems
• The price of a gaming business that no one talks about
• AppTractor podcast: virtual reality
• How I did 6 third-party projects in 2017
• How to make a ridersharing application
• Principles of a mobile user interface
•How to become a React Native developer in 2018
• Development of a delivery application: useful tips
• Augmented reality is empty - where are all the people?

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+23) Interview with Oren Kanyel (CEO Appsflyer) about the mobile ecosystem, investment in technology and corporate culture
• (+4) New online games launch process in China
• Natalia Vodianova’s charity Elbi application launched in Russia
• Snapchat improves application promotion tools
• TheTool identified the most important factors of the App Store Optimization
• Sweatcoin received a seed investment of $ 5.7 million
•App Annie: 2017 retrospective report
• How to achieve user engagement
• Pregnancy prevention app recognized as “not always effective”
• Danny Trejo promotes new Family Guy game
• HQ Trivia magic
• Mobfox case: 31% increase in Musi revenue
• Top 10 2017 applications, games and publishers
• Strategy for working with rewarding videos for F2P games
• Why user interviews are important
• 9 predictions for the application market in 2018
• Main mobile trends 2018
• Behavioral profiling: how to make useful player models
• The cost of developing games

Devices, IoT, AI

• (+28) Affordable AI for any company: Cloud AutoML
• (+24) Using Intel Movidius for neural networks
• (+24) TOP-30 most impressive machine learning projects over the past year
• (+18) Own pix2code with blackjack, but without neurons
• (+17) Who is engaged in machine learning and what is popular in Data Science now? Survey results among Kaggle users
• (+12) Using Grafana with the DeviceHive IoT platform
• (+10) Connecting Internet of Things and Azure devices using NodeJS
• (+8) Cross-platform IoT: Troubleshooting
• Nintendo Switch was supplemented with a cardboard designer
• BlackBerry launched Jarvis service for car code analysis
• Unmanned rooms: the end of Uber, Airbnb and the cities we know
• Depression, loneliness and lack of sleep: how smartphones destroyed an entire generation
• We create an operating system for Raspberry Pi

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