The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week №6 (March 11 - 17, 2013)
This week a lot of news was connected with Android - Andy Hubin, the founding father, moved away from the project, Google blocked AdBlock, Flurry figured out how many devices the developers really need to support. In addition, there is an interesting case for the promotion of applications from Microsoft, according to a PC Magazine survey, chose Windows Phone 8 as the best mobile OS, Philips opened a development program for Hue light bulbs, and ABI calculated that revenue from mobile applications in 2013 would reach $ 25 billion, 65% of which will go to Apple. In general, there is something to remember.
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Text output in iOS: CoreText, NSAttributedString
Rus
Viber tells about the text output on the screen in iOS. At first it was intended as a tutorial, then as a collection of unobvious facts, but it turned out what happened ...
Shooting Time Lapse video for Android
Rus
Let's write a program to create your own movies in the Time Lapse technique.
Intel division has released a version of Android optimized for Intel chips
Rus
The development team of the Open Source Technology Center of Intel introduced a preliminary version of Android, optimized for the corresponding Intel chips. In other words, there is a version of Android that can be run on a desktop PC, laptop or tablet, on which you usually work with Windows. In addition, there is a tool that allows you to run both Windows 8 and Android on the same computer.
Google arranges spring cleaning and bans AdBlock in Android
Rus
Google delighted all developers of AdBlock applications with the news that all their applications were blocked in accordance with clause 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.
Android and Chrome OS on the road to unification: Sundar Pichai becomes the new head of Android
Rus
In the official blog of Google, co-founder of the company and its CEO, Larry Page, announced that Andy Rubin, the founder of Android Inc., and then head of Google’s mobile division, leaves his post, yielding it to Sundar Pichai.
Connecting Android sources to Eclipse
Rus
It turns out that the developers of Eclipse and Android have provided an excellent opportunity to see the source codes of our libraries (if available, of course) and use them to their fullest potential. This does not apply if the library in the source is imported as a separate project. All of the following applies when the library is in a jar file (this is how the Android API or JDK library is connected).
Life difficulties of independent developers
Rus
Suppose you are an application developer and consider it necessary that your application be optimized to work on 80% of devices. How many different device models (including Kindle Fire, Galaxy SIII and others) do you think you need to support for this? The answer is 156.
IDC: Android tablets will overtake the iPad by the end of 2013
Rus
A surge of interest in small, low-cost tablets will lead to the fact that sales of devices will exceed the initial forecast for 2013 and Android will overtake the iPad by the end of the year.
Using Berkeley DB in an Android application
Rus
After successfully completing the “Hello World” stage for Android, I decided to write a simple Android application for interest, the main functionality of which was to store a certain set of data on the device. And I really did not want to work with SQL. I'm used to somehow working with objects. Therefore, having searched the Internet in search of solutions compatible with Android, I found only one thing - Berkeley DB, an embedded database.
Qt 5 for Android: preview
Rus
In this preview version, we focused on the developer experience so that you can easily run and test your applications on Android devices. And although nothing prevents you from distributing apps with Qt 5.1 through the app store, we recommend not to do this and wait for the release of Qt 5.2, because we want to improve support even more ...
The results of the promotion "Great eight applications"
Rus
Microsoft has shared the results of the promotion of the eight applications under Windows 8. The winners of the New Year application competition received a prize - the promotion of applications by Microsoft companies during the New Year holidays.
PC Magazine has chosen Windows Phone 8 as the best mobile OS.
Eng / Rus
PC Magazine according to the results of the survey put Windows Phone 8 in the first place among all mobile operating systems for the satisfaction of users.
Cook MVVM for Windows Store Applications
Rus
When we started working on applications for Windows 8, we looked for the Model-View-ViewModel template support library (MVVM) for this platform. We spent some time on the Internet looking for one, but in the end we accepted the fact that there are no such libraries in nature yet (perhaps we were looking badly, but now this is not so important). The answer to the question "what to do?" Suggested itself ...
Began accepting applications for participation in the championship developers Evernote Devcup 2013
Rus
As part of Evernote Devcup developers and designers around the world are encouraged to create products that can extend the functionality of Evernote, helping users save, share and quickly access all the important moments in their lives.
Second Mobile Apps Contest Apps4All
Rus
The second Mobile Apps Competition Apps4All is held within the framework of the project Apps4all.ru - the largest community of Russian-speaking mobile application developers - and is intended to identify the best developers of 2013. We offer 4 own nominations for mobile developers, 2 nominations Google and 2 nominations Microsoft for mobile applications.
uMoove opens eye tracking technology for Android and iOS developers
Angl
uMoove develops technology for three years and within a few months will be ready to license it to third-party developers.
Philips opens development program for Hue bulbs
Eng / Rus
Philips Hue is a lighting system that changes the idea of home lighting (a multi-colored LED lamp with a Wi-Fi module). And now this innovative system has an official program for developers, allowing manufacturers of third-party applications and equipment to continue what Philips started.
Fuse Powered Introduces Fuseboxx 2.0 Platform
Eng / Rus
The new service works on iOS and Android and offers analytical reports on user behavior in the application, information on user acquisitions by source, service for A / B testing, advertising service, etc. All this in one SDK and (almost) free.
How do we use smartphones or what needs to be considered when developing a mobile interface
Rus
When we create a mobile interface design, we know that there are some additional things to think about - for example, that depending on the situation / context, users change the patterns of interaction with the smartphone.
Intel System Studio - software development kit for embedded and mobile systems
Rus
At the end of February, Intel officially announced the release of Intel System Studio - a new set of tools addressed to software developers for embedded systems and specialized devices: communicators, systems on a chip, automotive computers, industrial and medical devices based on x86.
Meet Marmalade Quick
Rus
Marmalade Quick allows you to write applications in the Lua language, which is now quite popular among game developers. Lua is tempting, it is very simple and powerful enough language. The ability to connect such modules as: Cocos2D-x for 2D graphics, Box2D for physics and SQLite for local data storage, JSON for data exchange.
Users do not tolerate buggy applications - only 16% will give such an application a third chance
Eng / Rus
According to a recent study by Compuware, in the near future the ecosystem of mobile applications will not suffer a crisis - the majority of smartphone users (85%) still prefer applications to mobile websites. They believe that applications are more convenient (55%), faster (48%) and simpler (40%). Of course, this data is not surprising - native solutions, as a rule, always work better. But the interesting attitude of users to unstable applications. 79% of respondents reported that they would try to restart the application only once or twice, if it did not work properly for the first time. And only 16% said they would give them more than two attempts.
Zynga: cloning talk is a “distraction” - everyone does it
Eng / Rus
Zynga has published an open letter to Dan Porter, Zynga New York's general manager, to his staff, in which he explains his position, indicated at the conference speech on Friday. In his speech, Porter then stated that his company, a well-known developer of social games, creating its own products, copies the games of its competitors, and now he says that the press has taken his quote out of context.
New Relic tracks the performance of iOS and Android applications
Eng / Rus
New Relic has launched a new service for monitoring the performance of native applications, which, according to the company, will improve the ratings of users in the app stores for iOS and Android.
Finger control: looking for the perfect interface
Rus
Let's try to understand the intricacies of interaction with touch screens, and understand how to achieve such convenience and ease of control.
Tapjoy: income on holidays is 50% higher
Rus
Tapjoy shared its earnings on holidays - Christmas, Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day. So, advertising revenue these days increased by 54% on Christmas, by 44% in Chinese New Year and by 34% on Valentine's Day. For example, “leading retail brands” that placed ads on Tapjoy's network for iOS and Android devices on Valentine's Day not only saw an increased CTR, but also an increased conversion.
The most successful mobile venture funds
Eng / Rus
Onavo Insights, the analytical department of Onavo, has published a ranking of venture capitalists and their success in the mobile space. VCs are usually ranked by cost of output, but measuring the impact on the mobile world is probably better measured by market share of applications, which is the best indicator.
Income from applications in 2013 will reach $ 25 billion
Eng / Eng / Rus
The general trend is, writes ABI, that the monetization of tablets will overtake the monetization of smartphones. By 2018, in terms of income, applications for tablets will overtake applications for phones. And by this time, total revenue from applications will reach $ 92 billion.
Crittercism received $ 12 million for the development of an error tracking system
Angl
Crittercism is a platform for tracking mobile application errors, crashes, and performance. The company received 12 million from Google Ventures in round B.
Pressly receives $ 1.5 million and opens
Angl
The company uses HTML5 and customizable templates to quickly create mobile websites. The company has been working on the tool since 2011 and is only now opening it to the general public.
Facebook announces Mobile DevCons
Eng / Rus
Mobile DevCon will be held on April 18 in New York, May 2 in London and May 7 in Seoul. DevCon's goal is to help developers better understand the social platform so that they can more confidently invest resources in creating applications related to Facebook. Apparently, the event will be devoted to discussing updates related to developers, but there will be nothing on it like launching the Timeline or the Open Graph platform, like on f8. Most likely, these topics will be important for developers, but for the general public will be of little interest.
iOS
')
Text output in iOS: CoreText, NSAttributedString
Rus
Viber tells about the text output on the screen in iOS. At first it was intended as a tutorial, then as a collection of unobvious facts, but it turned out what happened ...
Android
Shooting Time Lapse video for Android
Rus
Let's write a program to create your own movies in the Time Lapse technique.
Intel division has released a version of Android optimized for Intel chips
Rus
The development team of the Open Source Technology Center of Intel introduced a preliminary version of Android, optimized for the corresponding Intel chips. In other words, there is a version of Android that can be run on a desktop PC, laptop or tablet, on which you usually work with Windows. In addition, there is a tool that allows you to run both Windows 8 and Android on the same computer.
Google arranges spring cleaning and bans AdBlock in Android
Rus
Google delighted all developers of AdBlock applications with the news that all their applications were blocked in accordance with clause 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.
Android and Chrome OS on the road to unification: Sundar Pichai becomes the new head of Android
Rus
In the official blog of Google, co-founder of the company and its CEO, Larry Page, announced that Andy Rubin, the founder of Android Inc., and then head of Google’s mobile division, leaves his post, yielding it to Sundar Pichai.
Connecting Android sources to Eclipse
Rus
It turns out that the developers of Eclipse and Android have provided an excellent opportunity to see the source codes of our libraries (if available, of course) and use them to their fullest potential. This does not apply if the library in the source is imported as a separate project. All of the following applies when the library is in a jar file (this is how the Android API or JDK library is connected).
Life difficulties of independent developers
Rus
Suppose you are an application developer and consider it necessary that your application be optimized to work on 80% of devices. How many different device models (including Kindle Fire, Galaxy SIII and others) do you think you need to support for this? The answer is 156.
IDC: Android tablets will overtake the iPad by the end of 2013
Rus
A surge of interest in small, low-cost tablets will lead to the fact that sales of devices will exceed the initial forecast for 2013 and Android will overtake the iPad by the end of the year.
Using Berkeley DB in an Android application
Rus
After successfully completing the “Hello World” stage for Android, I decided to write a simple Android application for interest, the main functionality of which was to store a certain set of data on the device. And I really did not want to work with SQL. I'm used to somehow working with objects. Therefore, having searched the Internet in search of solutions compatible with Android, I found only one thing - Berkeley DB, an embedded database.
Qt 5 for Android: preview
Rus
In this preview version, we focused on the developer experience so that you can easily run and test your applications on Android devices. And although nothing prevents you from distributing apps with Qt 5.1 through the app store, we recommend not to do this and wait for the release of Qt 5.2, because we want to improve support even more ...
Windows
The results of the promotion "Great eight applications"
Rus
Microsoft has shared the results of the promotion of the eight applications under Windows 8. The winners of the New Year application competition received a prize - the promotion of applications by Microsoft companies during the New Year holidays.
PC Magazine has chosen Windows Phone 8 as the best mobile OS.
Eng / Rus
PC Magazine according to the results of the survey put Windows Phone 8 in the first place among all mobile operating systems for the satisfaction of users.
Cook MVVM for Windows Store Applications
Rus
When we started working on applications for Windows 8, we looked for the Model-View-ViewModel template support library (MVVM) for this platform. We spent some time on the Internet looking for one, but in the end we accepted the fact that there are no such libraries in nature yet (perhaps we were looking badly, but now this is not so important). The answer to the question "what to do?" Suggested itself ...
Contests
Began accepting applications for participation in the championship developers Evernote Devcup 2013
Rus
As part of Evernote Devcup developers and designers around the world are encouraged to create products that can extend the functionality of Evernote, helping users save, share and quickly access all the important moments in their lives.
Second Mobile Apps Contest Apps4All
Rus
The second Mobile Apps Competition Apps4All is held within the framework of the project Apps4all.ru - the largest community of Russian-speaking mobile application developers - and is intended to identify the best developers of 2013. We offer 4 own nominations for mobile developers, 2 nominations Google and 2 nominations Microsoft for mobile applications.
Development
uMoove opens eye tracking technology for Android and iOS developers
Angl
uMoove develops technology for three years and within a few months will be ready to license it to third-party developers.
Philips opens development program for Hue bulbs
Eng / Rus
Philips Hue is a lighting system that changes the idea of home lighting (a multi-colored LED lamp with a Wi-Fi module). And now this innovative system has an official program for developers, allowing manufacturers of third-party applications and equipment to continue what Philips started.
Fuse Powered Introduces Fuseboxx 2.0 Platform
Eng / Rus
The new service works on iOS and Android and offers analytical reports on user behavior in the application, information on user acquisitions by source, service for A / B testing, advertising service, etc. All this in one SDK and (almost) free.
How do we use smartphones or what needs to be considered when developing a mobile interface
Rus
When we create a mobile interface design, we know that there are some additional things to think about - for example, that depending on the situation / context, users change the patterns of interaction with the smartphone.
Intel System Studio - software development kit for embedded and mobile systems
Rus
At the end of February, Intel officially announced the release of Intel System Studio - a new set of tools addressed to software developers for embedded systems and specialized devices: communicators, systems on a chip, automotive computers, industrial and medical devices based on x86.
Meet Marmalade Quick
Rus
Marmalade Quick allows you to write applications in the Lua language, which is now quite popular among game developers. Lua is tempting, it is very simple and powerful enough language. The ability to connect such modules as: Cocos2D-x for 2D graphics, Box2D for physics and SQLite for local data storage, JSON for data exchange.
Users do not tolerate buggy applications - only 16% will give such an application a third chance
Eng / Rus
According to a recent study by Compuware, in the near future the ecosystem of mobile applications will not suffer a crisis - the majority of smartphone users (85%) still prefer applications to mobile websites. They believe that applications are more convenient (55%), faster (48%) and simpler (40%). Of course, this data is not surprising - native solutions, as a rule, always work better. But the interesting attitude of users to unstable applications. 79% of respondents reported that they would try to restart the application only once or twice, if it did not work properly for the first time. And only 16% said they would give them more than two attempts.
Zynga: cloning talk is a “distraction” - everyone does it
Eng / Rus
Zynga has published an open letter to Dan Porter, Zynga New York's general manager, to his staff, in which he explains his position, indicated at the conference speech on Friday. In his speech, Porter then stated that his company, a well-known developer of social games, creating its own products, copies the games of its competitors, and now he says that the press has taken his quote out of context.
New Relic tracks the performance of iOS and Android applications
Eng / Rus
New Relic has launched a new service for monitoring the performance of native applications, which, according to the company, will improve the ratings of users in the app stores for iOS and Android.
Finger control: looking for the perfect interface
Rus
Let's try to understand the intricacies of interaction with touch screens, and understand how to achieve such convenience and ease of control.
Money
Tapjoy: income on holidays is 50% higher
Rus
Tapjoy shared its earnings on holidays - Christmas, Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day. So, advertising revenue these days increased by 54% on Christmas, by 44% in Chinese New Year and by 34% on Valentine's Day. For example, “leading retail brands” that placed ads on Tapjoy's network for iOS and Android devices on Valentine's Day not only saw an increased CTR, but also an increased conversion.
The most successful mobile venture funds
Eng / Rus
Onavo Insights, the analytical department of Onavo, has published a ranking of venture capitalists and their success in the mobile space. VCs are usually ranked by cost of output, but measuring the impact on the mobile world is probably better measured by market share of applications, which is the best indicator.
Income from applications in 2013 will reach $ 25 billion
Eng / Eng / Rus
The general trend is, writes ABI, that the monetization of tablets will overtake the monetization of smartphones. By 2018, in terms of income, applications for tablets will overtake applications for phones. And by this time, total revenue from applications will reach $ 92 billion.
Crittercism received $ 12 million for the development of an error tracking system
Angl
Crittercism is a platform for tracking mobile application errors, crashes, and performance. The company received 12 million from Google Ventures in round B.
Pressly receives $ 1.5 million and opens
Angl
The company uses HTML5 and customizable templates to quickly create mobile websites. The company has been working on the tool since 2011 and is only now opening it to the general public.
Conferences
Facebook announces Mobile DevCons
Eng / Rus
Mobile DevCon will be held on April 18 in New York, May 2 in London and May 7 in Seoul. DevCon's goal is to help developers better understand the social platform so that they can more confidently invest resources in creating applications related to Facebook. Apparently, the event will be devoted to discussing updates related to developers, but there will be nothing on it like launching the Timeline or the Open Graph platform, like on f8. Most likely, these topics will be important for developers, but for the general public will be of little interest.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/173065/
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