Useful materials for mobile developer # 44 (March 10-16)

In the new digest, Nokia webinars for Android developers, iOS 7.1, Amazon and AppStream, Unity and Applifier, Flappy Bot for Flappy Bird and a study of how much an average mobile developer costs in different regions.

Webinars for developers to work with the Nokia X platform

Webinars in Russian will be held by Nokia’s training partner, Mikhail Samarin, who previously did detailed guides on how to work with the Nokia Imaging SDK tools for her.

Apple released iOS 7.1

Apple has released another update of the mobile operating system iOS. The update was called iOS 7.1.

Dalvik vs Xamarin: Is Xamarin so bad?

Write this article prompted me to believe that xamarin is something cumbersome, large, takes a long time to load (when compared with native development tools) and you cannot write a project in the “write once - run everywhere” style as tools like PhoneGap offer.

Flappy Bot for Flappy Bird

I chased the bird for about 20 minutes. I could not get past the 10th tower. Played another ten minutes. Oh, the 22 towers are my ceiling. Nerves to hell. And we decided with a friend Cyril to create our own ro-bot. To score the Chinese tanks, as Ostap said.

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iOS

• ReactiveCocoa and MVVM
• iOS Development Gems in AppCode
• Hide and Seek: Code Generation vs. JSON
• (Eng.) How clones, fear and free-to-play have ruined the Apple iOS game revolution.

Android

• Android SDK vs NDK - comparing the performance of similar types of code
• Spy Camera on Android
• Automate the installation of many apk files on Android
• Monkeyrunner. Pixel-perfect testing web pages on Android
• Google will release SDK for wearable devices

Windows phone

• Some problems Nokia Lumia 1520 in one post
• Developers dissatisfied with PubCenter

Development

• Contractiq: How much does a mobile developer cost?
• 10 Tips for Developing HTML5 Games
• Pebble Announces App Challenge with Top Prize of $ 5,000
• Unity Technologies acquires Applifier
• Amazon opens AppStream for all developers.
• Wix bought Appixia Designer
• Spotify released its SDK
• (Eng.) App Security 101: The 10 Most Common Vulnerabilities and How to Avoid Them
• (Eng.) Basics of creating applications under Firefox OS

Marketing and monetization

• Introduction to Mobile Analytics
• Backflip Studios opens publishing house
• The effectiveness of video advertising in the mobile Internet
• (Eng.) Mathematicians proved that it’s very difficult to earn the required number of points for a limited number of moves in Candy Crush
• (Eng.) The five most popular products in mobile games
• (Eng.) 10 outstanding developers who have changed the mobile industry (and in this list is our Game Insight)

Devices

• New MWC and Mobile Trends
• History of navigators
• Tablet market in Russia grew by 108% in 2013

Digest from last week . If I missed something - send it to the post office, I will quickly add it.