The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 178 (October 31-November 6)

RoboForm November 6, 2016 at 16:20

The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 178 (October 31-November 6)

Some gigantic digest turned out - both about techlides, and about GitHub, and about an ad blocker, and about Microsoft, which is now Apple, and about magic, and about much, much more.

DisTalk. If you cannot read, this does not mean that you cannot communicate

The task is very simple. Make an application that creates the DisTalk folder in the root of the device. The user puts pictures there, I load it into the GridView, when I click on the picture I pronounce the file name. Still to have some fun did switching folders. So that the child’s teacher can make different sets ... I made such an application, uploaded it to the play market. And now I’ll talk about how you don’t need to write applications. (But how should I do not know and do not pretend to be a guru)

I am a techlide. What to do?

For more than a year I have been holding the position of technical leader in my company, and I want to share the developments on the topic. It makes sense to clarify: I lead an iOS development department of 10 people in an outsourcing company. In my case, the position implies optimization of the department, the distribution of tasks between developers and activities associated with programming.

Indie RPG Development: A Parsing of Two Years of Development

In this article, you will be able to rush along with us on all the main ups and downs that have happened to us since Kickstarter month after month. Without beauty, without PR, without water. Only a clean case and hard experience. An experience with which with a high probability you will either come across on the path of an indie developer, or have already encountered, if you are already working on your game.

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