The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week №8 (March 25 - 31, 2013)
This week a lot of information about new game engines, GDC after all - WP got support for Unity 3D, Marmalade, Havok, Havok announced Project Anarchy, Ludei implemented 3D graphics in its HTML5 engine. In addition, the App Publish platform has opened for publishing Android applications in 130 stores, there is an interesting study that you can identify a person among 1.5 million users in just 4 points and an article on the creation of the first national sports tracker.
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Cognitive Anatomy of Languages in iTunes
Rus
Those who faced with the localization of ios applications in different languages, could not help but pay attention to all the magnificent variety of language settings in the Itunes Store and in Itunes Connect. There are so many of them that at once you will not understand where, what, and in what language it will be displayed. With this post, I will try to conduct those who are interested in the inexperienced through language measurements of the not always clear and convenient iTunes farm.
Aerobia - the first national sports tracker
Rus
The situation in Russia is very bad with a massive, even aerobic sport, and no one wanted to get involved in a laborious, expensive and very long development. Many factors had to coincide in order to decide on this. But our mosaic has developed. That's why we made the FIRST NATIONAL SPORTS TRACKER of domestic production.
"Tongue twisters". Part 1: From idea to design
Rus
Let's take a look at the stages of creating our latest application - “tongues on a cardboard” with us.
IPhone has more vulnerabilities than Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone combined
Rus
When it comes to mobile security, we most often discuss Android with its viruses and trojans, living mostly outside the Google Play Store. However, the new SourceFire study easily showed that the iPhone has more security problems than Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone combined.
Using drivers from the Android application
Rus
Route gives almost absolute power over the Android device. Today I will tell you how to get even more inclined to programming and the desire to explore the system on your device.
App Publish: publication in 130+ stores for Android
Eng / Rus
InMobi mobile advertising network has taken another step towards becoming a universal tool for meeting the needs of application developers. She launched the App Publish, a distribution platform for Android applications, which will allow developers to publish their free, paid, or freemium applications at many different Android application stores at once. The free App Publish offers access to approximately 130 app stores around the world, and according to Charles MacLeod, InMobi's director of business development, they will add new ones, about one in a week.
New Facebook home on Android: April 4
Rus
Facebook on April 4 invited the press to an event at its headquarters, which is called “Come See Our New Home On Android” (“Come and see our new Home on Android”).
New tools for developing games on Windows Phone
Rus
At the GDC conference in San Francisco, a number of announcements were made about new tools for developing games on the Microsoft platform. Now, in addition to existing tools such as DirectX, developers can use Unity 3D, Marmalade, Havok.
BlackBerry 10: Android is better than Android?
Rus
The more I think about it, the more I feel a sense of déjà-vu. In fact, this was 20 years ago. The vendor who last tried to do this was IBM with its OS / 2 2.0 operating system. For me, this is like salt on the wound, and they will certainly criticize me, but since this battle between Microsoft and IBM has long been over, I will continue.
Havok Announces Project Anarchy: Free Cross-Platform 3D Engine
Eng / Rus
Havok at GDC announced Project Anarchy - a new cross-platform mobile 3D engine with its physics, animation and AI. His examples outside the mobile world are Skyrim, Assassin's Creed and Skylanders.
Ludei brings WebGL to mobile platforms
Rus
The company Ludei, engaged in the creation of a game engine for HTML5, announced the introduction of support for 3D graphics, which allows developers to create 3D games for smartphones and tablets.
Mozilla conducts development workshops for Firefox OS
Rus
Mozilla has announced a new series of seminars on creating applications for the upcoming Firefox OS. The first three will be held in Madrid (Spain) on April 20, in Bogota (Colombia) on May 18 and in Warsaw (Poland) on June 1.
GamePlay 3D Framework - easy start to cross-platform development of 3D games
Rus
This is an open source framework written in C ++ for programming games in C ++ with all the advantages and disadvantages that follow from it. The authors of the project position it as a universal tool, a kind of analog cocos2d for 3D games. To start writing on GamePlay 3D you do not need to have a deep knowledge of OpenGL, GLSL or 3D graphics math, but we all understand that to achieve a good result you cannot get away from it.
Google launches Universal Analytics
Eng / Rus
Last October, Google announced a limited beta version of Universal Analytics, its attempt to introduce new features into Google Analytics: cross-platform analytics, mobile apps analytics, and the ability to use data from offline sources. Today, Universal Analytics is available to all Google Analytics customers.
YouTube opens live API for game developers.
Eng / Rus
YouTube announced the "live broadcast" feature for game developers. At GDC 2013, YouTube announced the release of new APIs, which, being embedded in the game, will allow broadcasting the game stream to its channel.
Successful mobile art: puzzle of small parts
Rus
Do not stop talking about what makes the mobile game a hit. In this article we want to share our thoughts on the role of art in this issue. In our opinion, the set of all factors listed below is important for the success of the game.
Graphic Password Vulnerability
Rus
Background: my wife constantly strives to somehow screw me up: set the alarm clock at 3 am, change the ringtone, take down the synchronization settings, delete my SMS and then prove that she did not say that. Joking as a joke, but at some point I decided: “Enough!” - and put the graphic password on my android.
Yodo1: do not translate your applications into Chinese
Eng / Rus
“None of the systems that Western developers rely on - be it advertising, payments, opening applications or distribution - is unavailable in China,” said Yodo1 head of Henry Fong at GDC 2013. While the Chinese market remains a mystery to many Western developers, its size means that it is impossible to ignore.
A person among 1,500,000 users of mobile communication can be identified only by 4 points in time and space
Rus
Every day, each of us is in the same places at about the same time - home, work, gym, shop, house again ... Our daily route is quite stable and at the same time unique. A joint study of American and Belgian scientists has shown that its degree of uniqueness is much higher than can be expected.
Google has created a calculator to calculate the value of the mobile world
Eng / Rus
Full Value of Mobile Calculator (calculator of all value of the mobile) is created so that marketers can monitor calls, applications, internal sales, mobile site visits and activity on different devices and sales due to all this.
Facebook has improved mobile ad targeting
Rus
The company Facebook has announced some improvements in the mobile app install ads, launched last fall. Now developers can better target their ads thanks to some nuances.
Yahoo! acquired a startup of a 17-year-old guy for $ 30 million
Rus
Summly is an unusual iPhone application. To date, the Android version is still in development. The program helps users to quickly search for news on topics of interest to them and uses some know-how and artificial intelligence to compress an arbitrary article in a resume of up to 400 characters and selects suitable and attractive pictures to design on the screen of a mobile device.
The success of Candy Crush Saga in cross-platform and updates
Rus
The entire developer community has become interested in how Candy Crush Saga so quickly achieved success. At the “Free to Play Game Design: A Year in Review” meeting, the speakers analyzed trends observed by them in the application of the free-to-play model for mobile and social games, including trends related to Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga from King. com.
iOS
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Cognitive Anatomy of Languages in iTunes
Rus
Those who faced with the localization of ios applications in different languages, could not help but pay attention to all the magnificent variety of language settings in the Itunes Store and in Itunes Connect. There are so many of them that at once you will not understand where, what, and in what language it will be displayed. With this post, I will try to conduct those who are interested in the inexperienced through language measurements of the not always clear and convenient iTunes farm.
Aerobia - the first national sports tracker
Rus
The situation in Russia is very bad with a massive, even aerobic sport, and no one wanted to get involved in a laborious, expensive and very long development. Many factors had to coincide in order to decide on this. But our mosaic has developed. That's why we made the FIRST NATIONAL SPORTS TRACKER of domestic production.
"Tongue twisters". Part 1: From idea to design
Rus
Let's take a look at the stages of creating our latest application - “tongues on a cardboard” with us.
IPhone has more vulnerabilities than Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone combined
Rus
When it comes to mobile security, we most often discuss Android with its viruses and trojans, living mostly outside the Google Play Store. However, the new SourceFire study easily showed that the iPhone has more security problems than Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone combined.
Android
Using drivers from the Android application
Rus
Route gives almost absolute power over the Android device. Today I will tell you how to get even more inclined to programming and the desire to explore the system on your device.
App Publish: publication in 130+ stores for Android
Eng / Rus
InMobi mobile advertising network has taken another step towards becoming a universal tool for meeting the needs of application developers. She launched the App Publish, a distribution platform for Android applications, which will allow developers to publish their free, paid, or freemium applications at many different Android application stores at once. The free App Publish offers access to approximately 130 app stores around the world, and according to Charles MacLeod, InMobi's director of business development, they will add new ones, about one in a week.
New Facebook home on Android: April 4
Rus
Facebook on April 4 invited the press to an event at its headquarters, which is called “Come See Our New Home On Android” (“Come and see our new Home on Android”).
Windows phone
New tools for developing games on Windows Phone
Rus
At the GDC conference in San Francisco, a number of announcements were made about new tools for developing games on the Microsoft platform. Now, in addition to existing tools such as DirectX, developers can use Unity 3D, Marmalade, Havok.
Blackberry
BlackBerry 10: Android is better than Android?
Rus
The more I think about it, the more I feel a sense of déjà-vu. In fact, this was 20 years ago. The vendor who last tried to do this was IBM with its OS / 2 2.0 operating system. For me, this is like salt on the wound, and they will certainly criticize me, but since this battle between Microsoft and IBM has long been over, I will continue.
Development
Havok Announces Project Anarchy: Free Cross-Platform 3D Engine
Eng / Rus
Havok at GDC announced Project Anarchy - a new cross-platform mobile 3D engine with its physics, animation and AI. His examples outside the mobile world are Skyrim, Assassin's Creed and Skylanders.
Ludei brings WebGL to mobile platforms
Rus
The company Ludei, engaged in the creation of a game engine for HTML5, announced the introduction of support for 3D graphics, which allows developers to create 3D games for smartphones and tablets.
Mozilla conducts development workshops for Firefox OS
Rus
Mozilla has announced a new series of seminars on creating applications for the upcoming Firefox OS. The first three will be held in Madrid (Spain) on April 20, in Bogota (Colombia) on May 18 and in Warsaw (Poland) on June 1.
GamePlay 3D Framework - easy start to cross-platform development of 3D games
Rus
This is an open source framework written in C ++ for programming games in C ++ with all the advantages and disadvantages that follow from it. The authors of the project position it as a universal tool, a kind of analog cocos2d for 3D games. To start writing on GamePlay 3D you do not need to have a deep knowledge of OpenGL, GLSL or 3D graphics math, but we all understand that to achieve a good result you cannot get away from it.
Google launches Universal Analytics
Eng / Rus
Last October, Google announced a limited beta version of Universal Analytics, its attempt to introduce new features into Google Analytics: cross-platform analytics, mobile apps analytics, and the ability to use data from offline sources. Today, Universal Analytics is available to all Google Analytics customers.
YouTube opens live API for game developers.
Eng / Rus
YouTube announced the "live broadcast" feature for game developers. At GDC 2013, YouTube announced the release of new APIs, which, being embedded in the game, will allow broadcasting the game stream to its channel.
Successful mobile art: puzzle of small parts
Rus
Do not stop talking about what makes the mobile game a hit. In this article we want to share our thoughts on the role of art in this issue. In our opinion, the set of all factors listed below is important for the success of the game.
Graphic Password Vulnerability
Rus
Background: my wife constantly strives to somehow screw me up: set the alarm clock at 3 am, change the ringtone, take down the synchronization settings, delete my SMS and then prove that she did not say that. Joking as a joke, but at some point I decided: “Enough!” - and put the graphic password on my android.
Yodo1: do not translate your applications into Chinese
Eng / Rus
“None of the systems that Western developers rely on - be it advertising, payments, opening applications or distribution - is unavailable in China,” said Yodo1 head of Henry Fong at GDC 2013. While the Chinese market remains a mystery to many Western developers, its size means that it is impossible to ignore.
Security
A person among 1,500,000 users of mobile communication can be identified only by 4 points in time and space
Rus
Every day, each of us is in the same places at about the same time - home, work, gym, shop, house again ... Our daily route is quite stable and at the same time unique. A joint study of American and Belgian scientists has shown that its degree of uniqueness is much higher than can be expected.
Money
Google has created a calculator to calculate the value of the mobile world
Eng / Rus
Full Value of Mobile Calculator (calculator of all value of the mobile) is created so that marketers can monitor calls, applications, internal sales, mobile site visits and activity on different devices and sales due to all this.
Facebook has improved mobile ad targeting
Rus
The company Facebook has announced some improvements in the mobile app install ads, launched last fall. Now developers can better target their ads thanks to some nuances.
Yahoo! acquired a startup of a 17-year-old guy for $ 30 million
Rus
Summly is an unusual iPhone application. To date, the Android version is still in development. The program helps users to quickly search for news on topics of interest to them and uses some know-how and artificial intelligence to compress an arbitrary article in a resume of up to 400 characters and selects suitable and attractive pictures to design on the screen of a mobile device.
The success of Candy Crush Saga in cross-platform and updates
Rus
The entire developer community has become interested in how Candy Crush Saga so quickly achieved success. At the “Free to Play Game Design: A Year in Review” meeting, the speakers analyzed trends observed by them in the application of the free-to-play model for mobile and social games, including trends related to Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga from King. com.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/174835/
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