Useful materials for mobile developer # 43 (March 3-9)

In the compilation today there is a large article on how applications for the Sochi Olympics were made, how applications in Apple CarPlay will work, how Nokia Android application developers work with Nokia X, and a lot of research on the mobile Internet in Russia. Well, taking this opportunity to congratulate our beloved ladies on the last holiday, and all with the coming spring!

Sochi 2014 mobile apps: how to show megabytes of results to users

Despite all the skepticism, feelings and distrust, the games, no doubt, went well. As one of the participants of this project, who is responsible for the official mobile applications in the Internet team, I would like to share with the Internet community some details on how this all became possible and how it was implemented.

Apple CarPlay Application Design

CarPlay takes everything you would want from an iPhone while driving, and puts it directly into the car's built-in display. You can create routes, make calls, send and receive messages, and listen to music so as not to be distracted from the road. Just stick your iPhone in the car and go. ”

JavaScript to APK. Pitfalls of development for Android for those who are stunned by PhoneGap. Building bridges from java to javascript

Immediately I warn you that I had to give up PhoneGap, because I was saddened by the experience of using it in two projects. It does an excellent job with “Hello World” applications, but with a pipeline assembly in a row, nuances emerge.

How to translate the game into 20 languages ​​and not go to hell

Once a client approached us - a developer of games for Android and iOS. He wanted to localize his game into 20 languages, including Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. Why not, we thought: we can and can localize applications, we have translators-native speakers. But the devil is in the details.
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iOS

• Better world with ReactiveCocoa
• Objective-C Runtime in examples
• We use web sockets in our iOS application
• Creating custom UIActivity for publishing photos and text on the social network VKontakte
• Debugging Applications with dtrace
• “To wash or not to wash?” Or how we launch our mobile application

Android

• Evernote interface Android errors
• We write effective blur on Android
• Android development tools update, Java 7 support
• (Play) Pebble app store now on Android
• Amit Patel (Nokia): Nokia X for Android Developers
• Microsoft released Office 365 Android SDK

Windows phone

• Fast app resume for Windows Phone 8
• AdDuplex distributes smartphones to developers

Development

• How to send push notifications from your Rails application
• Google Summer of Code 2014
• Who came up with the progress bar?
• Font boosting in mobile browsers
• Embarcadero launches AppMethod, a new native application development platform.
• Twitch Launches Mobile SDK
• Crowd testing service Utest: how to max out

Marketing and monetization

• (PDF) Mobile Internet in Russia - Mail.ru study
• Xplode: New Application Discovery Platform
• (Eng.) F2P Monetization Chips from Marketing Director King.com
• Fiksu Introduces CPI Index and Cost per App Launch Index
• Team17 will be engaged in publishing mobile games
• Mobile games and charity: how to solve social problems and stay profitable
• As a messenger Line can be used to promote mobile games
• (Eng.) How do developers track LTV?
• (Eng.) Normalization of counting installations
• (Eng.) Why mobile developers need to take up India, not China
• (Eng.) Final App Store Optimization Guide 2014

Devices

• Samsung introduced new Exynos processors, CMOS image sensors, third generation NFC chip and mobile Wi-Fi module
• Suitcases iPhones and Gopnik in Butovo: how we almost went broke on Apple products
• LG Nexus 5 vs. Motorola Moto G: unexpected comparison results
• ThL T100S - smartphone based on 8-core processor MT6592
• 11 wearable devices presented on # MWC2014