News digest from the world of mobile development for the last week №38 (January 20-26, 2014)

In the outgoing week, VKontakte released its SDK for Android, Apple “opened” iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager for Russia, and Distimo and App Annie at once shared information about the superiority of the Asian region in the market of mobile applications.

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Objective-D - an alternative or addition to Objective-C

I developed another language that generates Objective-C code. Therefore, in this language you can easily use classes of Objective-C and C functions. You can also easily use the generated classes in Objective-C code. So there is an opportunity to conduct development in two languages ​​at once. I called this language Objective-D.

VKontakte submitted SDK for Android

The popular social network VKontakte has expanded its application development toolkit, which already has Flash and Javascript SDK, as well as an iOS SDK, and another for the Android SDK.

The realities of mobile game development - Mobile game: where is the money? - Attracting users to the mobile game

A series of articles on the development of mobile games from the head of one of the Russian gaming studios.
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iOS

• Creating a tweak using the Phone application
• Why NSURLSession is Better than NSURLConnection
• iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager in Russia

Android

• Work with geofences (geofences) in Android
• Designer review Android 4.4 KitKat. Part 1
• In the wake of the bug and a little about the events of MotionEvent in Android
• China introduced its own national operating system

Development

• How statistics help make Yandex.Probki better
• Everything you think about Nintendo is fundamentally wrong
• GameAnalytics offers free analytics to Corona Labs developers.
• Mixpanel offers developers targeted notifications within applications.
• SpriteBuilder: games for iOS and Android on Objective-C in Xcode
• The app for Google glasses will help in having sex and fire
• Duologue: a new quality control tool for application designers

Marketing and monetization

• How to evaluate user experience?
• Distimo: Asia - the main application market in the world
• Whatsapp: We will always have time to earn money
• State of Mobile Advertising for the fourth quarter: Android-smartphones for the first time bypassed the iPhone by the number of mobile advertising hits
• On Wednesday, we are holding a regular webinar on “Features of Application Promotion in Asian Markets”