Useful materials for mobile developer # 42 (February 24 - March 2)

In this collection * analysis of mobile gaming trends for 2014, blocking Apple accounts of Russian developers, a rather pessimistic forecast of the development of the industry from Oleg Yakubenkov, news from the MWC, a new consolidated rating of product developers.

10 trends in the mobile gaming market in 2014

It is always interesting to predict what will happen in the future. 2014 for the mobile gaming industry at its peak will definitely be rich in events that can make major changes in the balance of power in the market.

Unified Developer Ranking 2014

The ranking was made only by the agent segment - companies developing custom applications.

Is cross-platform development on Titanium a terrible end, or horror without end?

We consciously want to move away from evaluations - it’s bad or it’s good to develop cross-platform applications, and focus on the difficulties that we have to face in terms of developing and maintaining these applications.

Apple massively blocks developer accounts from the Russian Federation

On February 19, information on the fact that Apple, for no apparent reason, blocks development accounts from the Russian Federation with the wording “Apple’s associated with your account” began to come to the iOS application development forums for no apparent reason. that in fact there is a fraud charge.

Market of mobile applications. Why your mobile application has few chances.

As one of the speakers at the Product Camp conference said, there are an arena in mobile app stores where all popular apps fight, get users and money, and there is a graveyard with the remaining million apps. Unfortunately, due to the reasons that were discussed earlier, the chances of getting into the arena every day for new mobile applications are less and less likely for a mobile application to become profitable.
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iOS

• February 24, 2014 Steve Jobs would have turned 59 years old
• Critical bug in CoreGraphics on iOS
• iOS in the Car will be presented next week
• (Eng.) Design section on the Apple website for developers

Android

• Google has published its launcher in the Market. We put it on the HTC One
• Connected Volvo at MWC 2014
• Details about the tasks Gradle
• How we created Robot Pasha
• Nokia X Platform SDK released
• Samsung introduced the Samsung app store KNOX Marketplace

Development

• (Eng.) Spritz - fast reading system for web, iOS and Android
• Ministry of Education and Science: programming cannot be taught exclusively remotely
• "Non-creative" side of localization. Project through the eyes of a translator
• Google introduced the online learning tool for oppia.
• Box2d: Collision Anatomy
• TestFairy invites customers to TestFlight
• Samsung announced support for multi-screen games
• What should a developer do to stay ahead of the competition?
• Cordova now supports Firefox OS

Marketing and monetization

• European Commission: Frithupley? Then no in-app purchases!
• Telegram downloaded 8 million people after the purchase of WhatsApp
• Think Gaming will help make or find a box office hit
• Midverse offers a high-quality gaming advertising network for Android
• Rovio opens publishing house for children's educational games
• 25 best mobile advertising networks according to MobileAppTracking
• About 50% of all profits in free-to-play games bring 0.15% of players
• Free Apponomics book - The Billion Dollar Business App

Devices

• Samsung introduced a new flagship smartphone - GALAXY S5
• Yota Devices introduced the second generation YotaPhone
• Cases with YotaPhone functionality - Inkcase
• Nokia has released a line of phones based on Android OS
• Mozilla announced the "25-dollar smartphone"
• How navigation from the inside works
• Google Modular smartphone “Project Ara” will go on sale in 2015
• Why Intel will not leave the mobile market
• Smart City at Mobile World Congress 2014

* Yes, this is a continuation of the weekly digests that I did for the company Apps4All. Unfortunately, our paths diverged, but did not throw the same good thing halfway? If you have ideas on how to improve the collection or materials that are not included in it - write in a personal.