The digest of news from the world of mobile development in the last week №26 (September 23—29, 2013)

This week there are two interesting stories about the development and income of mobile games, Android is 5 years old, Marmalade began to support Tizen, the continuation of an endless story about Elop’s role in the fate of Nokia, an excellent study from the organizers of the ADC conference about the economics of mobile applications and many other interesting things our digest.

The best

Android vs iOS on the example of one game

I decided to share the “live” statistics of one of my games, which has become quite popular on iOS and Android.

Development and promotion of the game for Android

Most recently, I finished developing my mobile game for Android and, as usual, I thought it would be nice to promote it. This is what I am doing now and I want to share my experience.

Android Multi Window Mode

The company Ixonos showed a demo video with its new development - multi-window mode on the tablet running Android.

The top 5 paid apps on the App Store require over 7,000 daily downloads

According to Dennis Zhadanov from Readdle, the company found that an application with a rating of 4.5 stars requires from 3,500 to 3,800 weekly downloads to enter the list of the 10 best paid applications in the United States.
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iOS

• Indoor navigation with iBeacon in iOS7
• Apple finished the Interface Builder please!
  I have been an iOS developer for 4 years now, and what at first seemed momentary imperfection, irrelevant details, over the years turns into Chinese water torture.
• Apple Touch ID - fingerprint scanner in iPhone 5S hacked
• Apple Announces World Tech Talks
• EA: Apple paid us a lot of money to delay the release of Plants vs. Zombies 2 for Android + misunderstood us
• New York Police Calls to Switch to iOS 7

Android

• Android OS is exactly 5 years old
• CyanogenMod vs AOKP
• ADB Uninstall plugin for Android Studio (IntelliJ IDEA)
• NFC application development for Android
• Humble Mobile Bundle 2
• BOINC is an Android application that does distributed computing for the benefit of humanity.
• Android remote lock
• iMessage for Android

Blackberry

• The company BlackBerry received a buyout offer for 4.7 billion dollars

Development

• Usability: Value swapping error or worse than the built-in Android dialer
• Framer is a free tool for prototyping interactive and animated interfaces.
• 90% of mobile apps don't have adequate help.
• "Social" OpenKit opens for iOS and Android
• Marmalade 6.4 began to support Tizen
• CloudBees connects development tools with the cloud
• How in-game advertising can increase the influx of new players by 61%

Monetization

• 50% of mobile developers do not earn anything on their applications
  How many developers of mobile applications earn on their projects, and what is the average number of studios, the organizers of the ADC conference told in their extensive research.

Devices

• Nest Labs is going to open its API for Learning Thermostat
• Nokia, life goes on
  The new head of the company is already building prospects for the future. And the first step after the completion of the sale of Nokia's mobile business to Nokia, along with 5.44 billion euro patents, may be the acquisition of Alcatel.
• HTC One: NFC Payment Testing
• Diary analysts note
  Thanks to Elop, Microsoft bought not a bankrupt, but a company with a more or less stable position in the market, with three years of experience working closely on its axis and with a more or less interesting niche in the market.
• Nvidia introduced Tegra Note
• Microsoft Announces Surface 2