The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week # 9 (April 1 - 7, 2013)
This week, Facebook introduced its Home, iTunes somehow strangely failed Google's search results, the Corona SDK became free, and two more engines for cross-platform development appeared. There are also two amusing stories from Russian developers and the Russian version of Developer Economics 2013.
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Mosaic creates a single screen from multiple iPhones and iPads.
Rus
At PennApps Hackathon, a group of MIT students has created an application that can do amazing things by connecting multiple iOS devices into a single interactive screen. An application that does not require any jailbreak available for free on the App Store, but Mosaic plans go even further: they created an SDK that allows other developers to embed similar functionality into their own applications.
box-, cocos- and pizza- 2d
Rus
In this article I want to share with you the story of the creation of the first iOS game in our company and tell you about the experience of using 2d graphics engine - cocos2d. In the story we will go through some technical problems that we had to face during the development of the game, and tell you about the evolution of the gameplay from beginning to end.
Cyto: creating a level editor, adapting to the iPhone and other utilities
Rus
We continue to share our practical experience in developing games for iOS from scratch. In this case, there were a lot more pitfalls than we could have imagined when we began development. Disrupting the deadlines, unnatural (at first glance) requirements of publishers and Apple, crooked free engines ... This is only part of what we had to spend our time and energy on.
iTunes has failed Google's search results.
Eng / Rus
Position iTunes in search results Google strongly shaken in the last week, writes TechCrunch. For example, a typical search query “Whatsapp iTunes” or “Whatsapp iPhone”, which previously displayed a link to the Apple store on the first page, now shows it far in depth in the USA, for example, on page 3.
Objective-C Blocks
Rus
In this small 15-minute video, Jura Digal Buyanov (the leading iOS developer of e-Legion) will talk about the intricacies of working with blocks in Objective-C.
AAML: The Simplest Markup Language for Android
Rus
When I write something for android - I often correct XML (markup, styles, strings, ...). So in a text editor to do it is not very convenient. And I decided to spend a couple of hours and write an XML generator based on a simplified markup language (like lesscss or stylus for CSS).
BYOD in a container: we virtualize Android. Part one
Rus
In this post there will be a short overview of the existing solutions for virtualization on Android, clear diagrams of the architecture of our solution, a short video of how everything works.
New statistics on the use of different versions of Android
Rus
Yes, yes, before you again statistics on the prevalence of Android versions. But! There is one difference, if before Google counted the phones only at the time of registration (respectively, if you flashed to another version of the axis, then you were counted twice, three times, and so on), now, starting from April, only calls to Google are considered Play
Facebook Home destroys the last hint of privacy
Rus
Facebook Home can be installed on the phone as an application, but it is just a shell for the operating system. After its installation, the user activates his permanent presence in the social network. Facebook will receive comprehensive information about the movements and actions of the user for as long as the phone is turned on.
The fourth round of the voting contest Windows Phone Next App Star
Rus
Now there is a stage of online voting, which consists of several rounds, where the winner is selected from the proposed pair.
Premium Developer Program for Asha - Nokia Limited Bounty Ride
Rus
Developers can participate in the program, which have two applications published in any store (Nokia Store, Windows Phone Store, Google Play, BlackBerry World, Apple App Store, others).
V-Play: a new 2D game engine
Rus
V-Play - a new engine for the rapid development of 2D games from Austria. The authors describe it as cross-platform (now it is Android, iOS, Symbian, MeeGo, Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux, then the Blackberry Playbook / 10 and Windows Phone 8 will be connected) game engine with which you can save time and money at all stages of game development.
Russian version of "Developer Economics 2013"
Rus
Developer Economics 2013 is the fourth study of development economics. This report focuses on developer tools, explores six sectors: advertising networks and intermediary platforms, backend-as-a-service, cross-platform tools, cross promo networks, user analytics and voice services.
Famo.us: a tool for developing fast and beautiful HTML5 apps
Rus
Famo.us, a JavaScript framework for creating highly functional (and very fast) HTML5 interfaces, today made two announcements at the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco: the development tool will be free for developers, thanks to several interested "big equipment manufacturers", and get your own physics engine.
Corona SDK Starter - free version
Rus
Great news for developers for mobile platforms. The Corona SDK framework has got a free version that hardly differs from the Pro version in its recent understanding.
6 startups that change the use of mobile devices in the enterprise
Rus
Powerful mobile devices have already penetrated to jobs and are not going to go away from there. So far, by order of the heads of companies, the heads of IT departments are trying to develop appropriate policies to make the use of mobile devices at work the employees, ignoring the existing rules, are already using them.
Foursquare: the foundation of the ecosystem
Rus
Foursquare has firmly entrenched itself in the “local” web structure, providing an API that provides global benefits to developers. Any destabilization of Foursquare or its development tools will dramatically affect the stability of the entire mobile web and applications.
Mozilla and Samsung create a new generation Servo browser engine
Rus
Mozilla and Samsung unexpectedly announced a joint project: developing a “new generation” web engine optimized for future “faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computer architectures”. The project was named Servo.
Continuous Integration for mobile and web projects
Rus
Good afternoon, in my article, I want to tell everyone the well-known practice of software development - Continuous Integration or Continuous Integration. In order to immediately explain what is special about the article, I will explain that our team had the task to build a single process for all our projects. And we have projects as mobile (iOS, Android) and web (layout, services, websites).
Important trends in the development of mobile applications for 2013
Angl
This is HTML5, geolocation, cross-platform for business applications.
The rule of three seconds and other principles for creating successful mobile applications
Rus
If the application does not respond, or responds for longer than three seconds, you have a problem. There is no place for hangs and errors on the mobile application market and it’s not a fact that users will give you a second chance. This means that meeting user expectations should come first.
5 reasons why freemium games “suck”
Rus
Designer Bennett Foddy, known for his QWOP and GIRP games, spoke at the last GDC with a report that listed 5 reasons why the free to play model does not work very well in the current incarnation, he suggests that with a creative approach to microtransactions, designers could do their job better.
How much is the active user?
Rus
According to AppAnnie, almost all of the growth in application revenue over the past year was in-app purchases. But is it caused only by the fact that this business model has become very popular? Or is there a hyperconcentration of revenue from top publishers, who in the majority prefer the free-to-play model?
US game developer gets $ 84,000 a year
Rus
The average annual salary of the American game developer at the end of 2012 was $ 84,000, according to a Game Developer in the April issue, according to the results of its own survey. This is almost $ 3 thousand more than in 2011.
Life after going to stor. Cases
Presentation from our Forum on Friday, in which leading developers share their experience in promoting applications - English with Leo, Delivey Club, Teremok, Sheep Happens and many others.
Twitter installs applications directly from tweets
Rus
For example, you follow some developers on Twitter and he writes “Egegey! Install this app! ”By linking to the App Store. Clicking on this link will now show you the built-in “card” of the application and give you the opportunity to install the application if you do not have it, or open it if you already have it.
Adobe, Unity and Rovio confirmed for Flash GAMM Moscow 2013
Angl
Flash GAMM is a conference about flash, social and mobile games, which will be held in Moscow on May 14.
iOS
')
Mosaic creates a single screen from multiple iPhones and iPads.
Rus
At PennApps Hackathon, a group of MIT students has created an application that can do amazing things by connecting multiple iOS devices into a single interactive screen. An application that does not require any jailbreak available for free on the App Store, but Mosaic plans go even further: they created an SDK that allows other developers to embed similar functionality into their own applications.
box-, cocos- and pizza- 2d
Rus
In this article I want to share with you the story of the creation of the first iOS game in our company and tell you about the experience of using 2d graphics engine - cocos2d. In the story we will go through some technical problems that we had to face during the development of the game, and tell you about the evolution of the gameplay from beginning to end.
Cyto: creating a level editor, adapting to the iPhone and other utilities
Rus
We continue to share our practical experience in developing games for iOS from scratch. In this case, there were a lot more pitfalls than we could have imagined when we began development. Disrupting the deadlines, unnatural (at first glance) requirements of publishers and Apple, crooked free engines ... This is only part of what we had to spend our time and energy on.
iTunes has failed Google's search results.
Eng / Rus
Position iTunes in search results Google strongly shaken in the last week, writes TechCrunch. For example, a typical search query “Whatsapp iTunes” or “Whatsapp iPhone”, which previously displayed a link to the Apple store on the first page, now shows it far in depth in the USA, for example, on page 3.
Objective-C Blocks
Rus
In this small 15-minute video, Jura Digal Buyanov (the leading iOS developer of e-Legion) will talk about the intricacies of working with blocks in Objective-C.
Android
AAML: The Simplest Markup Language for Android
Rus
When I write something for android - I often correct XML (markup, styles, strings, ...). So in a text editor to do it is not very convenient. And I decided to spend a couple of hours and write an XML generator based on a simplified markup language (like lesscss or stylus for CSS).
BYOD in a container: we virtualize Android. Part one
Rus
In this post there will be a short overview of the existing solutions for virtualization on Android, clear diagrams of the architecture of our solution, a short video of how everything works.
New statistics on the use of different versions of Android
Rus
Yes, yes, before you again statistics on the prevalence of Android versions. But! There is one difference, if before Google counted the phones only at the time of registration (respectively, if you flashed to another version of the axis, then you were counted twice, three times, and so on), now, starting from April, only calls to Google are considered Play
Facebook Home destroys the last hint of privacy
Rus
Facebook Home can be installed on the phone as an application, but it is just a shell for the operating system. After its installation, the user activates his permanent presence in the social network. Facebook will receive comprehensive information about the movements and actions of the user for as long as the phone is turned on.
Windows phone
The fourth round of the voting contest Windows Phone Next App Star
Rus
Now there is a stage of online voting, which consists of several rounds, where the winner is selected from the proposed pair.
S40
Premium Developer Program for Asha - Nokia Limited Bounty Ride
Rus
Developers can participate in the program, which have two applications published in any store (Nokia Store, Windows Phone Store, Google Play, BlackBerry World, Apple App Store, others).
Development
V-Play: a new 2D game engine
Rus
V-Play - a new engine for the rapid development of 2D games from Austria. The authors describe it as cross-platform (now it is Android, iOS, Symbian, MeeGo, Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux, then the Blackberry Playbook / 10 and Windows Phone 8 will be connected) game engine with which you can save time and money at all stages of game development.
Russian version of "Developer Economics 2013"
Rus
Developer Economics 2013 is the fourth study of development economics. This report focuses on developer tools, explores six sectors: advertising networks and intermediary platforms, backend-as-a-service, cross-platform tools, cross promo networks, user analytics and voice services.
Famo.us: a tool for developing fast and beautiful HTML5 apps
Rus
Famo.us, a JavaScript framework for creating highly functional (and very fast) HTML5 interfaces, today made two announcements at the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco: the development tool will be free for developers, thanks to several interested "big equipment manufacturers", and get your own physics engine.
Corona SDK Starter - free version
Rus
Great news for developers for mobile platforms. The Corona SDK framework has got a free version that hardly differs from the Pro version in its recent understanding.
6 startups that change the use of mobile devices in the enterprise
Rus
Powerful mobile devices have already penetrated to jobs and are not going to go away from there. So far, by order of the heads of companies, the heads of IT departments are trying to develop appropriate policies to make the use of mobile devices at work the employees, ignoring the existing rules, are already using them.
Foursquare: the foundation of the ecosystem
Rus
Foursquare has firmly entrenched itself in the “local” web structure, providing an API that provides global benefits to developers. Any destabilization of Foursquare or its development tools will dramatically affect the stability of the entire mobile web and applications.
Mozilla and Samsung create a new generation Servo browser engine
Rus
Mozilla and Samsung unexpectedly announced a joint project: developing a “new generation” web engine optimized for future “faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computer architectures”. The project was named Servo.
Continuous Integration for mobile and web projects
Rus
Good afternoon, in my article, I want to tell everyone the well-known practice of software development - Continuous Integration or Continuous Integration. In order to immediately explain what is special about the article, I will explain that our team had the task to build a single process for all our projects. And we have projects as mobile (iOS, Android) and web (layout, services, websites).
Important trends in the development of mobile applications for 2013
Angl
This is HTML5, geolocation, cross-platform for business applications.
The rule of three seconds and other principles for creating successful mobile applications
Rus
If the application does not respond, or responds for longer than three seconds, you have a problem. There is no place for hangs and errors on the mobile application market and it’s not a fact that users will give you a second chance. This means that meeting user expectations should come first.
Monetization
5 reasons why freemium games “suck”
Rus
Designer Bennett Foddy, known for his QWOP and GIRP games, spoke at the last GDC with a report that listed 5 reasons why the free to play model does not work very well in the current incarnation, he suggests that with a creative approach to microtransactions, designers could do their job better.
How much is the active user?
Rus
According to AppAnnie, almost all of the growth in application revenue over the past year was in-app purchases. But is it caused only by the fact that this business model has become very popular? Or is there a hyperconcentration of revenue from top publishers, who in the majority prefer the free-to-play model?
US game developer gets $ 84,000 a year
Rus
The average annual salary of the American game developer at the end of 2012 was $ 84,000, according to a Game Developer in the April issue, according to the results of its own survey. This is almost $ 3 thousand more than in 2011.
Marketing and promotion
Life after going to stor. Cases
Presentation from our Forum on Friday, in which leading developers share their experience in promoting applications - English with Leo, Delivey Club, Teremok, Sheep Happens and many others.
Twitter installs applications directly from tweets
Rus
For example, you follow some developers on Twitter and he writes “Egegey! Install this app! ”By linking to the App Store. Clicking on this link will now show you the built-in “card” of the application and give you the opportunity to install the application if you do not have it, or open it if you already have it.
Conferences
Adobe, Unity and Rovio confirmed for Flash GAMM Moscow 2013
Angl
Flash GAMM is a conference about flash, social and mobile games, which will be held in Moscow on May 14.
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