The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week №31 (October 28 — November 3, 2013)

Last week brought us a lot of interesting things. Google released Nexus 5 and Android 4.4, Marmalade opened its publishing house, Nokia announced a tripling of sales in North America, just two companies - Motorola and ZTE - announced the imminent release of modular smartphones, Mail.ru held an interesting conference about the prospects of mobile Internet in Russia and the world.

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Google officially announced the new Nexus 5 and Android 4.4

Upgrade to Kit Kat will get the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One, released in conjunction with Google (Google Play Edition).

Mobile Internet in Russia and the world: platforms, consumption, trends

The abstract of the three reports presented at a press conference organized by the Mail.Ru Group together with the Nielsen company.

Competition: we are developing Vkontakte messenger for Tizen

Samsung is holding a competition among developers to create an instant messenger based on the existing VK API for the new Tizen mobile platform. The total prize fund is 3 000 000 rubles.

How Google and Motorola changed the way we are used to narration

I feel that the movie first came off the wall. It is not necessary to sit and look, although you need to hold something in your hands. This is a huge paradigm shift, and it provides tremendous creative opportunities.
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iOS

• New statistics on the use of mobile devices by children in America
• Continuous integration in xcode5
• Apple has left the golden iPhone itself
• Apple has opened to developers access to Game Center ratings
• Apple reports fourth quarter results: iPhone sales grew by 26%

Android

• QML Creator: QML Development for Android
• Qt on Android: Episode One
• Custom Annotation Preprocessor - the creation of Android-based applications and configuration in IntelliJ IDEA
• External resources in Android applications
• Re: Developer Interview (Alternative / Addition)
• Build Android applications on Travis CI
• Play is 25% more downloads than the App Store - revenue reaches 50%
• Samsung launches five new SDKs

Windows phone

• Nokia Worldwide Apps
• Easy localization of the name of the Windows Phone application
• Nokia tripled sales in North America
• Corona SDK will support Windows Phone 8

Tizen

• The first Tizen tablet for developers

Development

• Scringo allows any developer to add stickers to their applications.
• Productive procrastination: development for BlackBerry and Tizen
• About the problems and the solution of the task of delivering push notifications to millions of devices on various platforms
• What is the difference between the tastes of the audience in different countries?
• Mixpanel offers developers mobile surveys
• The market for mobile games will double by 2016.

Marketing and monetization

• Marmalade opens Play Publishing
• In Supercell believe that the publishers of the mobile market is not needed
• "Whales" are important for developers not only because of money
• Free gaming applications - the most profitable product category in mobile stores
• PayPal launches Startup Blueprint - a global startup support program.
• The mechanics of midcore games: part 1

Devices

• Motorola supports Phonebloks and creates its modular smartphone Project Ara
• ZTE introduced its modular smartphone ECO-MOBIUS
• FSB does not classify Google Glass as special tools.
• How to protect data on mobile employees
• Recovery of the TeXeT TM-9750HD tablet from a state of a full brick
• The tablet market is growing, but Apple is losing ground
• Smartphones are changing urban life
• Smartphone sales exceeded 250 million, Samsung is growing twice as fast as Apple