The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 129 (November 9–15)
In the new digest, the history of ICQ development, the development of an Android developer, several materials on tvOS, mobile app design, new Mail.ru analytics, as well as a small survey on VR glasses. Welcome!
ICQ recently won the Editors' Choice Google Play nomination. This nomination is perhaps the most significant in the history of those that undergo manual moderation. We’ll try to tell how we got the current “The New ICQ”, and what you should pay attention to if you also want to get the “Editors' Choice” badge on your application.
Many, studying a certain technology, begin to practice on tasks, some examples. I decided to do my pet project right away! Without preparation, without reading books - just sawing the application! Without hesitation, the Android Project was created with the name English everyday and raced.
Developer Economics is the world's largest study on global trends in application economics and mobile development. It is based on a survey of developers and companies conducted by the British company VisionMobile once every six months.
iOS
Android
Windows (Phone)
Development
Analytics, marketing and monetization
Devices and IoT
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New ICQ, or how we got Editors' Choice |
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Tenth Developer Economics Survey |
iOS
- (+11) Application Development for tvOS
- (+10) AppCode 3.3: Xcode 7, Swift 2 and plans for the future
- (+6) Receiving deleted data in iOS. Part 2
- (+7) Development for Apple TV
- TestFlight expanded to 2,000 people
- Apple hosts Apple TV Tech Talks workshops
- Changes to the App Store Search Algorithm
- Smooth scrolling in UITableViews
Android
- (+13) Methods of treatment of various errors in Android Studio when developing a project
- (+9) Development and debugging of applications for Android Wear
- (+4) Nuances of creating an arcade
- (+4) Memo to beginning translators of applications for Android or how to start translating applications
- Introducing Google Voice Actions
- Improved Sign-In on Google Play services 8.3
Windows (Phone)
- (+17) Office Add-Ins for Excel - new opportunities for developers on VBA and VSTO
- (+10) The best reports of conference DotNext 2015 Piter. Part 1
Development
- (+32) How people with visual impairment use the Internet and modern technologies. Yandex research
- (+19) Animation of transitions between two fragments
- (+15) Cocos2d-x - development of a simple game
- (+12) Design development for applications MyOffice
- (+8) Unit testing of your Ionic application
- (+7) GET / POST requests in Qt or a wrapper over QNetworkAccessManager
- (+3) Instant loading of desktop and mobile sites: part 1
- (+2) Wrongly used templates of the mobile interface
- (+1) Development of 2D games on Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Android without programming. Part 2
- Exploring Stripe Dashboard Design for iPhone
- Google Maps API taught predictive analytics
- VK launched the University for developers
- 10 mobile apps with the best UI: October 2015
- The pain of mobile developers
- How to ignore feedback?
Analytics, marketing and monetization
- (+9) Mail.Ru Group starts a new stage in the era of mobile analytics called myTracker
- (+9) We will discuss the future of push notifications
- (+7) Apple iAd - use experience
- (+3) 2 decisive factors in consumer behavior or “Thumb decides now”
- EEDAR report “Analysis of the market for mobile and tablet games 2015”
- Android Studio lost to Xcode and Visual Studio
- What libraries are used in the Top 100 iOS apps
- Amazon Underground significantly increased revenue Halfbrick and Rovio
- Curse of the Indies
- Marmalade launches user analytics with GameAnalytics
- Crittercism has done analytics for hybrid applications
- AppLovin Releases SDK for Displaying Ads on Apple TV
- Which analytical platform to choose for the game?
Devices and IoT
- (+22) My implementation of home automation system
- (+21) Portable points of virtual reality and some thoughts
- (+13) Digitization of the world book heritage by means of smartphones
- (+8) Homemade alarm clock on Arduino which hits on the face
- NVIDIA Launches Jetson TX1 Mobile Supercomputer
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What do you think is waiting for portable (which use smartphones) virtual reality glasses?
- 7.6% They will become the main hardware in VR 7
- 47.2% They will exist together with full-fledged VR systems 43
- 45% They will gradually disappear 41