The digest of news from the world of mobile development for the last week №41 (February 17-23, 2014)
A week of “big” news: Yandex released its Android Kit, Apple acquired TestFlight, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $ 16 billion, Google introduced a smartphone with a 3D sensor. In addition to them, in our collection there is an article about how to make money on the name, how an extra line of code broke all the security of iOS, new reports Distimo, App Annie, Adfonic.
The transaction provides for the payment of $ 4 billion in cash, $ 12 billion in shares and an additional $ 3 billion in options for four years to retain a few WhatsApp employees, including 32 programmers and 0 PR and marketing specialists. A dedicated package is about 7.9% of all Facebook shares and 35% of the available money.
Earn on a mobile game, without investing money in advertising, you can only speculating with the name of the application.
It is made specifically for people in Russia, taking into account all the local features that we know about. And we, as a company that answers more than 250 million inquiries from Russian users a day, know a lot about such features and needs.
I didn’t know that the first wireless ECG heart rate monitor was invented in 1977 - for the Finnish national ski team ... And now, an ordinary-looking watch is able to transmit various data to Android or iOS devices, such as activity, number of steps, and of course pulse and more.
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 | Facebook buys WhatsApp for $ 16 billion |
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 | Yandex.Kit: new firmware for smartphones |
 | History of heart rate monitors |
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iOS
- Now for sure: Apple bought TestFlight
- Adam Langley explained the reasons for the bug in iOS: an extra line of code broke all security
- ADCSpb # 11. Meeting iOS developers in St. Petersburg
- The fourth free iOS school in St. Petersburg
- Xcode and Travis: running tests on a variety of configurations
- Decorator (Translation of a chapter from the book “Pro Objective-C Design Patterns for iOS” by Carlo Chung)
- How we: hover on iOS won ...
- How I measured FOV without compass and ruler
- Apple updated iTunes Connect (although it stopped working for almost everyone)
- Fleksy released SDK of its keyboard for iOS
- (Eng.) One hundred best resources for iOS-developer
Android
- Google Maps v2 for Android: Pop-up window with full redraw and input event support
- Very simple screen slider
- 10 anti-navigation patterns in Android
- Ensure the reliable operation of Google Cloud Messaging
- Samsung could buy Android first
- TestFlight refuses to work with Android
- Send Google Play Services 4.2
Windows phone
- Integration with the hub "Photos" on Windows Phone
- Microsoft has accelerated certification of Windows Phone applications
Tizen
Development
- Creating a game on your eyes - part 4: Shader for fade in on the palette (a la NES) ( 3 , 2 , 1 )
- How we did the game jam, but we got our own greenlight
- Umoove is looking for ideas for its head and eye tracking system.
- Amplitude: real-time mobile analytics
- Gingee: A New Cross-Platform Development Tool
- PayPal Launches New Mobile SDK
- Qualcomm released SDK for Toq watches
- Free-to-Play 2.0
Marketing and monetization
- Promotional website for a mobile application. Part 1 and Part 2
- Distimo Releases Monetize Globally How The Most Successful Apps Report
- AdRoll launches new retargeting platform
- An App Annie and IHS Technology report on digital content sales in 2013
- Adfonic has published the Global AdMetrics Report for Q4 2013
- appOptim adds virality to applications
- Kochava has opened a new version of the advertising performance measurement platform.
- 500 downloads - enough to hit the top
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/213569/
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