The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week №18 (June 24 - 30, 2013)
This week is rich in interesting events - a set of Android developer Beacon Mountain from Intel, Unity announced support for Xbox One and Windows Phone 8, and the free Project Anarchy engine has become available for download. In addition, we were told (twice) how to get to the Top App Store, told about the achievements of an indie game on Google Play, continued the cycle of articles on the development of mobile design - now using the example of iOS and Windows Phone. Well, my most favorite news is that Microsoft will launch Age of Empires on iOS and Android!
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Is it possible to get to the top App Store for free and what to do if it was not possible to do it for free
Rus
I’ll write in the first lines of this short article that, in my humble experience, it’s terribly difficult to get into the App Store’s Top, and this requires a lot of effort.
Distimo: how to get to the Top 50 iPhone apps on the App Store
Angl
In May, an iPhone application needed 23,000 downloads per day to get into the Top 50 free apps on the Apple App Store, a new Distimo study tells us.
Review of iOS 7 Beta 2 on iPad
Rus
Impressions of the first use are rather ambiguous: on the one hand, quite interesting features appeared, such as a control point, which allows you to enable or disable a certain function quickly and with a minimum number of tapes; and on the other hand, quite useless, for example, the same parallax effect (which is now called “in the settings”), dynamic wallpaper that does not carry any useful functionality, but only a dubious decoration.
VKontakte iOS SDK
Rus
I will tell you how the new version of VKontakte iOS SDK works, how it all began and what finally came to.
Beacon Mountain - all Android developers need
Rus
Intel presents a free software suite for designing, developing, debugging and optimizing Android applications - Beacon Mountain.
Create a ListView with Context Action Bar as in the new Gmail
Rus
We want to make a smoothly working list with the ability to select rows by either clicking on the row icon or by long pressing it. We must also enable the user to perform certain actions with selected objects.
Working with cURL on Android
Rus
Generally speaking, for Android, making cURL work is a little more difficult than we would like.
About the fight against pirates and promotion in the Chinese market of Android applications
Rus
Can I make money on the Android application in China? The author suffers from doubts about the answer, and even the diploma of a translator of the Chinese language received in due time does not help at all in this situation.
Interaction with the modem in the Android OS
Rus + Layer radio interface in Android OS
It often happens that a tablet with a 3G modem does not provide an opportunity to make a call, send an SMS message and even find out the account balance. In this article we will deal with this, as well as see how to use all the functionality provided by the modem.
Indie game for Android in numbers
Rus
I want to talk about the launch of my last project - “Shooting club 3”, to share a lot of various statistics about incomes, budgets, downloads, in general, everything that I myself would be interested to hear about other games.
The reception of applications in Google Play for Education is open
Rus
Last month at Google I / O, Google announced the opening of the Google Play for Education platform. It has not been launched so far, but, apparently, this will happen in the not too distant future, since the opportunity has appeared in Play to send applications to the educational portal.
Unity announces support for Xbox One and Windows Phone 8
Rus
At the Microsoft Build 2013 conference, Unity reported two news: support for the Xbox One (and Kinect) and completely free support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.
Microsoft: we ranked third
Angl
Microsoft is now holding a conference for developers. Build and its main theme is Windows 8.1, but during it, the company certainly touched Windows Phone. In an interview with The Verge, senior Windows Phone manager Larry Lieberman emphasized the success of Windows Phone 8.
Blackberry Q10 Review and Impressions
Rus
At the moment, this is the last device released by Canadians, as well as the first QWERTY smartphone on the Blackbery 10 operating system.
Released free 3D engine Project Anarchy
Rus
Games created with Project Anarchy can be published without any license fees on iOS, Android or Tizen.
Port Age of Empires for smartphones will be released before the end of the year
Rus
Microsoft is going to license its console and computer games for porting them to mobile devices.
About the features of the location of controls in mobile applications
Rus
Looking at these photos, I have a question: “Do you really hold the phone when you use it with one hand?”
Integration of mobile application design. Part 2: iOS, Windows Phone
Part 1 / Part 2
In the first part, I described in detail my design integration process for the Android platform. This part is about the integration of design for iOS and Windows Phone, and I also briefly mention Samsung Bada 2.0.
Ninel Gruner (Room 8): why publishers are needed and why you should be able to close projects
Rus
The material is based on a conversation with Ninel Gruner, Marketing Director of Kiev Studio Room 8, who spoke about working with publishers, the features of PR non-standard applications and the so-called “soft launch” (Soft Launch).
Why I refused to use the Vkontakte API
Rus
Vkontakte has an incredibly extensive, up-to-date user database that allows you to create convenient applications. In addition to this, the guys made a public API, which allows you to legally use all the accumulated content, but still I have to refrain from using such a convenient tool without any reason.
Mobile OS architecture. User Trends and Impressions
Rus
Free abbreviated translation of an article written by engineers from Intel's Chinese division and dedicated to analyzing trends in operating systems for smartphones.
Grow Mobile Launches Mobile Application Optimization Platform
Rus
If we talk about the company's proposals, then, according to director Brendan Layall, more than 75 advertising networks are integrated into one control panel of the platform (and their number is constantly growing).
Agawi Introduces AppGlimpse Advertising Platform
Rus
Almost everyone agrees that mobile advertising in its form is not too good. Agawi presented an interesting solution - a mobile advertising block for games, AppGlimpse, which works as a demo version of the game.
iOS
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Is it possible to get to the top App Store for free and what to do if it was not possible to do it for free
Rus
I’ll write in the first lines of this short article that, in my humble experience, it’s terribly difficult to get into the App Store’s Top, and this requires a lot of effort.
Distimo: how to get to the Top 50 iPhone apps on the App Store
Angl
In May, an iPhone application needed 23,000 downloads per day to get into the Top 50 free apps on the Apple App Store, a new Distimo study tells us.
Review of iOS 7 Beta 2 on iPad
Rus
Impressions of the first use are rather ambiguous: on the one hand, quite interesting features appeared, such as a control point, which allows you to enable or disable a certain function quickly and with a minimum number of tapes; and on the other hand, quite useless, for example, the same parallax effect (which is now called “in the settings”), dynamic wallpaper that does not carry any useful functionality, but only a dubious decoration.
VKontakte iOS SDK
Rus
I will tell you how the new version of VKontakte iOS SDK works, how it all began and what finally came to.
Android
Beacon Mountain - all Android developers need
Rus
Intel presents a free software suite for designing, developing, debugging and optimizing Android applications - Beacon Mountain.
Create a ListView with Context Action Bar as in the new Gmail
Rus
We want to make a smoothly working list with the ability to select rows by either clicking on the row icon or by long pressing it. We must also enable the user to perform certain actions with selected objects.
Working with cURL on Android
Rus
Generally speaking, for Android, making cURL work is a little more difficult than we would like.
About the fight against pirates and promotion in the Chinese market of Android applications
Rus
Can I make money on the Android application in China? The author suffers from doubts about the answer, and even the diploma of a translator of the Chinese language received in due time does not help at all in this situation.
Interaction with the modem in the Android OS
Rus + Layer radio interface in Android OS
It often happens that a tablet with a 3G modem does not provide an opportunity to make a call, send an SMS message and even find out the account balance. In this article we will deal with this, as well as see how to use all the functionality provided by the modem.
Indie game for Android in numbers
Rus
I want to talk about the launch of my last project - “Shooting club 3”, to share a lot of various statistics about incomes, budgets, downloads, in general, everything that I myself would be interested to hear about other games.
The reception of applications in Google Play for Education is open
Rus
Last month at Google I / O, Google announced the opening of the Google Play for Education platform. It has not been launched so far, but, apparently, this will happen in the not too distant future, since the opportunity has appeared in Play to send applications to the educational portal.
Windows phone
Unity announces support for Xbox One and Windows Phone 8
Rus
At the Microsoft Build 2013 conference, Unity reported two news: support for the Xbox One (and Kinect) and completely free support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.
Microsoft: we ranked third
Angl
Microsoft is now holding a conference for developers. Build and its main theme is Windows 8.1, but during it, the company certainly touched Windows Phone. In an interview with The Verge, senior Windows Phone manager Larry Lieberman emphasized the success of Windows Phone 8.
Blackberry
Blackberry Q10 Review and Impressions
Rus
At the moment, this is the last device released by Canadians, as well as the first QWERTY smartphone on the Blackbery 10 operating system.
Development
Released free 3D engine Project Anarchy
Rus
Games created with Project Anarchy can be published without any license fees on iOS, Android or Tizen.
Port Age of Empires for smartphones will be released before the end of the year
Rus
Microsoft is going to license its console and computer games for porting them to mobile devices.
About the features of the location of controls in mobile applications
Rus
Looking at these photos, I have a question: “Do you really hold the phone when you use it with one hand?”
Integration of mobile application design. Part 2: iOS, Windows Phone
Part 1 / Part 2
In the first part, I described in detail my design integration process for the Android platform. This part is about the integration of design for iOS and Windows Phone, and I also briefly mention Samsung Bada 2.0.
Ninel Gruner (Room 8): why publishers are needed and why you should be able to close projects
Rus
The material is based on a conversation with Ninel Gruner, Marketing Director of Kiev Studio Room 8, who spoke about working with publishers, the features of PR non-standard applications and the so-called “soft launch” (Soft Launch).
Why I refused to use the Vkontakte API
Rus
Vkontakte has an incredibly extensive, up-to-date user database that allows you to create convenient applications. In addition to this, the guys made a public API, which allows you to legally use all the accumulated content, but still I have to refrain from using such a convenient tool without any reason.
Mobile OS architecture. User Trends and Impressions
Rus
Free abbreviated translation of an article written by engineers from Intel's Chinese division and dedicated to analyzing trends in operating systems for smartphones.
Grow Mobile Launches Mobile Application Optimization Platform
Rus
If we talk about the company's proposals, then, according to director Brendan Layall, more than 75 advertising networks are integrated into one control panel of the platform (and their number is constantly growing).
Agawi Introduces AppGlimpse Advertising Platform
Rus
Almost everyone agrees that mobile advertising in its form is not too good. Agawi presented an interesting solution - a mobile advertising block for games, AppGlimpse, which works as a demo version of the game.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/185134/
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