The digest of news from the world of mobile development in the last week №24 (September 9—15, 2013)

The main news of this week, of course, was the presentation of Apple's new smartphones iPhone 5S / C and iOS 7, which should be released on Wednesday. In addition, we learned that the NSA can access almost any smartphone, Microsoft offers to exchange iPads for gift cards for its stores, VisionMobile again considered roles in the global economy of applications, and Couchbase released the NoSQL base for iOS and Android.

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Apple introduced the iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C and the release of iOS 7

Apple on Wednesday unveiled the new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C smartphones. Most of the assumptions about new smartphones were confirmed - 5C plastic (but not cheap), and 5S with a fingerprint scanner and a 64-bit processor.

Three practices of web design for the upcoming iOS7

This article describes the three main UX / UI changes in Safari on iOS7 that you should keep in mind when optimizing websites for Apple devices.

According to Spiegel, the NSA can get data from almost any smartphone.

NSA can get information from almost any smartphone, be it Android, iPhone, or even BlackBerry protected. The data, according to journalists, is obtained first-hand - Spiegel representatives saw top-secret NSA documents related to receiving data from mobile devices.

Microsoft launched the iPad buying program

Microsoft has launched the program "iPad reception among the population." However, in exchange for the device, the user does not receive money, but a gift card for a certain amount (at least $ 200). An iPad, 2, 3, or 4 generations, should not be very worn out.
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iOS

“Your mom's combat boots” is a new feature in iOS7
In the iOS7 code, several amusing fragments were found - the names of the flags for activating certain functions, the essence of which the company tried to hide from outsiders.
UIAppearance. Manage the appearance of iOS applications
Appurify: even small changes in the assessment may affect the position of the application in the Apple App Store
Apple won't give developers access to Touch ID
All about icons and a bit about fonts for iOS 7

Android

Using NDK in Android Studio
The purpose of this article is to provide a detailed description of the process of creating an Android application using the NDK in Android Studio, in particular, offering a fairly simple and efficient configuration of the gradle (package building system used in Android Studio) to ensure that native libraries are included in the APK file.
Responsive Android application or 1001 ways to upload a picture
Where are all the laptops on Android?

Tizen

Starting the Tizen Remote Test Lab service
Now you can test your applications on a real device from anywhere in the world and at any time at your convenience.
Review Tizen SDK. Native

Development

Over a quarter of the global app economy belongs to Europe
Data from Vision Mobile and Plum Consulting show that 28 countries of the European Community account for 22% of the application economy, which in 2013 will amount to $ 14.7 billion.
Google Apps script: getting data from Flurry
Basiliq
Basil is a PSD file containing a huge number of UI elements for creating desktop and mobile interfaces.
Couchbase Offers NoSQL Base for iOS and Android
Embarcadero releases RAD Studio XE5
RAD Studio XE5 is the only solution on the market that offers the creation of applications based on native code that runs on all four popular platforms: Android, iOS, Windows and OS X.
Extreme Reality contest for the best iPad app

Marketing and monetization

Devices

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