The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week №33 (December 2-8, 2013)

In our weekly review, information that Google has started indexing the content of mobile applications, that ARPU Gingerbread is higher than that of Jelly Bean, how to turn your phone into a bank card, tips from Wooga how to make a profitable publishing house.

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Google learns to index mobile apps

The updated Googlebot indexes content in Android applications in the same way as on sites. The webmaster only needs to specify the desired content using a Sitemap and the familiar Tools for webmasters or the rel = alternate element.

How to make a dosimeter and bind it to Android

I set myself the task to meet the 1000 rubles, because dosimeters cost from 3500 rubles. In order to meet the budget, I decided not to look for a ready-made device, but to make it myself, but to create a program for an android. I called this project SyGeiger and it does not carry a commercial idea, it is just for the fan: Will I be able to?

Gingerbread overtakes Jelly Bean by ARPU

It is gratifying that revenue has increased for all versions of Android. However, the fragmentation of the system is still a big problem for developers, and in the light of new data, they should be especially careful when choosing the version on which applications will run.
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iOS

• IOS 7 jailbreak crowdfunding campaign
• Scroller for video and understanding of the time representation in Objective-C

Android

• Library Header2ActionBar for Android
• Optimization of applications for Android x86: proven methods
• Highlighting code on android. My experience
• CyanogenMod 10.2 released
• Chips for Android
• Chrome debugs apps on devices

Windows phone

• Telemetry of Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 applications
• Competition "Application of the Year" for Windows Phone

Development

• How we turned the phone into a bank card
• The heavy burden of a lonely Indie (ver.1.1)
• Famo.us integrates with Firebase and is almost ready for testing.
• Wooga: Less than 0.1% of games on the App Store are successful.
• KudosKits allows users to express their gratitude with money or other actions.
• Facebook buys Little Eye Labs application testing service
• Wonderful, but not exactly mobile: StackOverflow, Github and Friendfeed as cities

Marketing and monetization

• (Eng.) 86% of companies do not see the value in the mobile
• (Eng.) App Annie & IDC Report - Q3 2013 Portable Gaming Report
• (Eng.) How Tank Nation is Monetized
• (Eng.) 8 steps to improve user engagement
• Mobile application marketing: trends in 2013 and 2014

Devices

• NSA tracks the location of mobile phones around the world
• IconBIT CALLISTO 100 review: how to turn a smart watch into a smartphone
• YotaPhone went on sale
• SMS vulnerability in all Nexus

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