The digest of news from the world of mobile development in the last week №21 (July 15 - 21, 2013)

This week, a new version of PhoneGap was released, Yandex told how its dialer interface was doing, VKontakte and Google announced their application contests, and finally, the web version of Google Play was updated. In addition, we made a new design for the digest.

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PhoneGap 3.0 with new modular architecture and new APIs

The new version of PhoneGap presents a new modular architecture, which, according to the company, "will allow your application to remain small and fast." Developers can simply select the desired API, after which the necessary plugins will be automatically installed.

VLC is back in the App Store

The VLC 2.0 version, written from scratch, is licensed under both the GNU General Public License v2 and the Mozilla Public License v2. “MPLv2 is quite suitable for distribution via the App Store,” said one VideoLAN developer.

Difficult in the obvious: how we made the call interface to Yandex.Shell

In this article, Yandex designers talk about how they created such, as it sometimes seems, an obvious thing, like the call interface in Yandex.Shell.

New Developer Economics Report Released

This week, another Developer Economics report was released - for the third quarter of 2013. The study is based on a survey of more than 6,000 developers. This is the largest market research and economics of mobile development in the world.
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Android

• VKontakte Contest - Android Messenger with Encryption (VKontakte)
  Pavel Durov holds a competition among Android developers, the prize fund of which ranges from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 rubles.
• Competition of mobile applications for the city of Moscow App Contest'13 (Habr)
  The competition for the best application that solves urban tasks and makes everyday life of the residents of the metropolis easier and more pleasant, is held from July 17 to September 20, 2013 in conjunction with the Department of Information Technology of the city of Moscow.
• Beacon Mountain - now for MacOS X (Intel)
• The web version of the Google Play Store has been updated.
• Ice cream trailer on request from a mobile application (Habr)

iOS

• Not for printing. How we ran a magazine for iPad (Habr)
  The history of the creation of the Russian automobile magazine WTF automotive magazine for iOS.
• Haxe + OpenFL: even my grandmother can make a game under iOS! (Habr)

Windows phone

• New Nokia Imaging SDK and Graphic Applications: Details (Habr)
• Microsoft wants to attract developers to create services Companion Web (Apps4All)
  The company is launching a new project called Companion Web, which, according to rumors, will allow using the Internet to combine all the devices we use.

Development

• Is your application slow? This is because our civilization is dying.
  
• What are games: the cultural gap of mobile games (Apps4All)
  Interesting article about the role of the community for mobile games.
• Game development is no longer hit-driven industry (Apps4All)
  The market is such that there is a place for each game on it.
• Telerik updated its HTML5 framework Kendo UI (Kendo UI)
• Winter Nights 2013: Supercell on secrets of development (App2Top)

Marketing and monetization

• Free2Play MMORPG. Types of players and their monetization (Habr)
• PRninja for iPad helps you promote apps (App Store)
  Maria Petrenko (apparently our compatriot) has created a free iPad application that can guide you through all phases of a PR campaign for your application.

Devices

• How to connect a smartphone to the car - start to practice: Part 2 (Habr)
• Video review HTC One mini. Inexpensive simplified version of HTC One (Habr)
• LG Optimus G Pro (Habr)
• Nokia Lumia 1020 (Habr)
  Nokia Lumia 1020 is the only smartphone with a 41-megapixel photo sensor and Windows Phone 8 as an operating system.
• We test the galaxy for durability (Habr)