RoboForm August 21, 2016 at 16:34

The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 167 developer (on August 15-21)

In the new digest, application security issues generated by Pokemon Go, launch speed, Tim Cook games, freemium and game design. And the picture ... The picture from the article about Kotlin, everything is in order!

The future of mobile app security, or what Pokémon can teach us

Since the advent of Pokemon Go, I have been following with great curiosity everything related to this toy. Oddly enough, it gives an insane amount of interesting information - primarily regarding the development of mobile applications. It would seem that you are developing banking applications - what could be the connection here? But no, you also have something to learn from Pokemon.

Record time: how we increased the launch speed of the Mail.Ru Mail application on iOS

The article will focus on optimizing a large-volume application code that has a relatively long development history and has managed to build up a lot of visible and hidden functionality from the user during this time. The challenge was to reduce startup time without cutting back on functionality.

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