RoboForm July 26, 2015 at 15:11

The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 113 (July 20-26)

This week we studied changes in the App Store ranking algorithms, the development of 2D games and caching on mobile devices, discussed the release of Visual Studio and the prospects for Apple Car. All this and much more - in the new weekly digest.

How I studied English and programming at the same time

In the bookstore, the book “Programming for iPhone / iPad” caught my eye and, being an inquisitive person, I decided to try it. I bought a book, MacBook Air (I already had an iPad then), installed Xcode and started with examples from the book. When I got a general idea of how that works, I wanted to do something useful. Since it is very useful, or rather even necessary, for a programmer to know English, I decided to create such an application.

My first experience in developing a 2D game (5 tips)

I want to share a little experience that I gained while creating my first game for Andriod. I have to say right away, at the time of development, my programming experience was average (1C and a bit of C #), and my experience in a game dev was zero. Unity3D 4.6 was chosen as a development tool, it was attracted by multi-platform and the presence of a large number of video lessons.

Bit Kung Fu, or How to optimize traffic between a mobile application and a server

People always strive to keep abreast of the latest developments. Thanks to this desire, a lot of media has emerged that need their own mobile application to deliver content to their readers. So in stores appeared a great many news applications. Hundreds of applications for reading news, newspapers and magazines.

How to make browser cache not as useless as usual

I want to tell you about how we at Yandex.Browser tried to make the cache not as useless for users as usual. In the recently released new beta of Yandex.Browser for Android (we plan for other OSs as well), you can access recently visited sites even if you are not connected to the Internet. And it should work much more reliable and more convenient than everything that you saw before.

Changes in App Store ranking algorithms: more weight of additional parameters

The App Store has seen strong fluctuations in app ratings over the past few days. "A huge number of free iPad applications around the world began to fall off in the ranking, and many even dropped out of the TOP and lost hundreds of positions." We are talking only about the ratings of applications for the iPad and only free. All other tops are still unchanged.