The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week №27 (September 30 — October 6, 2013)

The week turned out to be rich in interesting announcements and materials. VKontakte finally opens the platform for mobile developers, we published the Russian version of the new Developers Economics report, now it became possible to link the Google Play developer account to the Google Analytics account, a story was published about how you can try to escape from Admob.

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Developer Economics Q3 2013

In this report, we will look at the latest trends in the mobile ecosystem, including developer preferences and platform priority, platform selection criteria, revenue models, and development for several types of devices. State of the Developer Nation explores the main platforms (Android, iOS and HTML5), contrasting them with newbies (BlackBerry 10, Windows 8 and Windows Phone) and only getting up to date platforms (Firefox OS, Tizen, Jolla, Ubuntu).

Now you can link Google Play Developer Console to your Google Analytics account.

Now you can see not only how many new users downloaded the application,

but the number of page views of the application on Google Play, which was promised more on Google I / O.

VKontakte opens platform for mobile developers

We want to give the creators of the best games for iOS and Android access to the VKontakte mobile audience, which is already tens of millions of people and is growing rapidly. To do this, before the end of the year, the Games section will appear in the VKontakte mobile applications, while the developers for iOS and Android will receive a native API at their disposal.

Severe gamedev on the example of three games for Android

It would seem that if there are time and opportunities for this, then why not change into the skin of an indie developer and create something interesting that people can like and make a profit? Of course, yes, but only in addition to the many obvious pitfalls, there are barely noticeable rakes, which lie at the last step of the game creation process and hurt painfully on the head.

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iOS

• Mobile app development with Dropbox Datastore API
• iTunes Store Support: the whole truth about Apple’s rules and support

Android

• How I Launched Hideninja VPN Mobile App (Part 1): First Prototype, First Hacking In-App Purchase
• Wireless Display for Android
• RCE (remote code execution) in Android applications via third-party services
• Customization of transitional animations between the Activity in Android OS
• Google Play Music service is finally available in Russia
• We write a game development framework - Mechanic Framework
• One Platform Foundation: AppDF and OpenIAB Overview

Windows phone

• Through thorns in the market
• New courses virtual academy Microsoft Virtual Academy:
  
  Complicated techniques for developing applications for Windows Phone 8
  
  Advanced Development Features for Windows Phone 8: Nokia Imaging SDK
• Windows Phone wins its place in Europe ...
• ... but loses developer interest

Development

• AppSeed allows you to accelerate the development of user interfaces
  
  The basic idea is to give designers a way to quickly turn drafts from a paper notebook into functioning prototypes of user interfaces in order to be able to test their work and get feedback on their design ideas at the initial stage of work.
• Vessel platform for A / B testing exits closed beta
• Extreme Reality opens SDK for developers

Monetization and advertising

• How I wanted to run away from Admob. Story about advertising networks
• How to choose a publisher for your mobile game, or 5 correct questions from developers
• ARPU, or a few tenths of a dollar
• "Wizard of the Emerald City" on the iPad? Are all projects good for crowdfunding?
• New Facebook calls to action will help publishers re-engage their users.

Devices

• iPhone of all time: performance comparison
• BMW Connected Drive as a trend
• Samsung announces new pixel CMOS technology - ISOCELL
• Romo: pet
• Sony Xperia Z Ultra: personal impressions and the opening of one of the biggest smart cards

Well, finally. Already this Friday (October 11), the Fourth International Apps4All Mobile Developer Forum will take place in Digital October in Moscow. We invite all our habreads to the Forum - you can visit it for free, for this, use the promo code free_4_apps when registering. Come, let's talk, there will be many interesting things!