Useful materials for mobile developer # 46 (March 24-30)

What was interesting this week? For example, NVIDIA announced the Portal port on Android, the AppSummit conference was held in Moscow and its recording is available for viewing, Oleg Yakubenkov and Sasha Podrezov (ZeptoLab) analyzed the top box-office games in Appstore, and released reports on monetization Distimo and App Annie.

Portal porting to Android

Nvidia's CEO at the GPU Technology Conference announced the portal version for Android OS. Promised that this will be the full port of the game.

Unpleasant Eclipse Surprise

In some cases, Eclipse adds source code from the jni directory to apk.

AppSummit conference recording

The first conference is about applications, business with applications and people for whom this business works and brings results.

Monetization of mobile games. Analysis of the top box office mobile games Appstore.

Mobile games are responsible for 70-80% of the incomes of mobile applications, and the most successful mobile games earn several million dollars a day. So even if you are not involved in mobile games, you will have something to learn from game developers in terms of user monetization.
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iOS

• Easy way to write iOS apps on the web
• Simple rules for implementing gesture control in iOS, which must be followed so as not to annoy anyone
• Microsoft introduced the iPad version of Office
• Cocos2D-X and so easy on all devices
• Millimetrica: mobile client for Yandex-Metrics
• Building FreeType2 for iOS

Android

• Integration of Android Studio, Gradle and NDK
• Find people in photos on Android using OpenCV
• We are friends with a regular Volvo speakerphone with Russian letters
• Intel INDE (Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience)
• Android 4.x is twice as stable as iOS 7.1

Windows phone

• Music for the grandmother from the grandson-programmer
• Imagenary open mobile photo blogs for everyone
• Microsoft is changing the Top Games rating engine in the Windows Phone Store
• (Eng.) AdDuplex announced its own monetization platform

Development

• Microsoft opens source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word
• Github Education - Education and Github
• (Eng.) I am a mobile developer who does not make games. And that's why.

Marketing and monetization

• Double Fine will help indie
• How Wooga uses FUUU - factor to create top games
• Report App Annie and IDC on the monetization of applications 2012-2017
• February Distimo application monetization report
• Flurry and Research Now Improve Mobile Advertising Targeting
• How does the number of tags on Instagram affect the number of likes?
• (Eng.) Five classic mistakes when tracking a mobile advertising campaign.
• GDC 2014: Badland authors told how they tried to make money on their hit
• Mobilefest 2014: Between Past and Future

Devices

• Russian officials banned from using iPad
• Announced by HTC One M8
• LG Smart Bulb
• TellSpec: determine the ingredients of the dish, calories and everything else in 3 minutes
• How local “smart phone” brands rush into the middle class and inflate prices

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