The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week №36 (January 4-12, 2014)

Congratulations to you all on the (finally) New Year holidays and we offer the first review in the new year. There are not so many news, but during our absence a new beta of iOS 7 was released, ZTE showed its modular smartphone, the iPhone turned 7 years old, and the author of the game Kakuro published an interesting history of its development.

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ZTE modular smartphone presented live at CES

One of the most interesting exhibits at the exhibition, without a doubt, was the modular smartphone Eco-Mobius, created by ZTE. On Habré wrote about him back in October, but now he was shown "live", and not only in the form of rendered images and plastic modules.

Installing Linux-programs on a smartphone running Android

Many owners of Android-backgrounds have difficulties with the launch of this Linux-software on their devices. By all laws, he seems to be working here, but for some reason root rights are only needed to install it, it itself is distributed in some self-made installers, and the choice of programs is severely limited.

Apple iOS 7.1 Beta 3. Reboot

Apple has released the third beta version for developers, which includes, of course, bug fixes and a small set of interface changes that allow you to feel the apple operating system a little differently.
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iOS

• iPhone is 7 years old
• Sales on the App Store exceeded $ 10 billion in 2013
• Background update data in iOS7
• We collect the Shark under iOS and OSX

Android

• Game Kakuro - Postmortem
• Android by Nokia
• (Eng.) Released Google Play Services 4.1 with support for step-by-step multiplayer
• The interaction of Android devices on the local network
• Aviate launcher goes under Yahoo wing
• Once again about the architecture of an Android application or a gentleman's library set
• Google has organized a car alliance
• Development for Android in NetBeans IDE without plug-ins. Part 1

Development

• Simple publish-subscribe for multiplayer on CoronaSDK, Gideros, Moai

Marketing and monetization

• (Eng.) Analysis of monetization Despicable Me: Minion Rush
• App Annie started working with the Windows Phone Store
• Fiksu launches Retargeting
• The mechanics of midcore games: part 4

Devices

• Why behind the market share of 80% only half of smartphone users can hide
• ROBOT based on: android, arduino, bluetooth. Start
• The creators of Gorilla Glass presented the glass with protection against bacteria