Useful materials for mobile developer # 48 (April 7-13)

Several great stories about first-hand application development, legal education for indie developers, grants from Microsoft, a story about the traditional side menu that took away half of the users - all this and much more in a weekly selection of news from the world of mobile development.

Following the publication in Google Play / App Store / Steam Greenlight

We undertook to implement a test project. A small casual game. This article is about how we published on Google Play, how we failed publication on Greenlight and what surprises we were waiting for in the AppStore.

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The story of how a dynamic programming task became an idea for a game and changed attitudes towards work

For a long time I was tormented by the questions: “Will I pull? Or will I spend a whole year writing such a simple game? ”,“ Do I need it at all? ”,“ Will anyone besides me play it? ”,“ I'm not a designer, and I don’t know how to draw, what to do with this? "," Is the idea as good as it seems to me? "

Developing an application for Firefox OS with a real example

Today, I will show with a real example how to develop applications under Firefox OS, which support most of the modern web technologies, and generally speaking, it was created for them and thanks to them.

Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and License Agreement: an educational program for an indie mobile developer

During the conversation, in which other colleagues participated, it turned out that indie developers devote very little attention to legal issues in their work, creating the necessary documents on the residual principle. We decided to fill this gap and hold together with a practicing lawyer a small “educational program”.



iOS

• Multiple Core Data
• How we HackPSU won
• (Eng.) The correct way to ask permissions in an application for iOS
• What does it mean to work at Apple: employees' stories about the worst sides of the company

Android

• What if there is no Android device at hand? Review of Android emulators
• Heartbleed and Android
• Android will constantly monitor installed applications for malware
• Capture video in OpenGL applications using Intel INDE Media Pack
• Development of Chromecast Ready applications for the Android platform
• Saving memory: Picasso vs UniversalImageLoader
• Twitter acquires Cover

Windows phone

• Qt is now on Windows Phone
• Universal applications for Windows and Windows Phone
• How to get a grant of € 70,000 for a Windows Phone application
• Microsoft introduces Windows for machines

Development

• Side menu in the application can cost half the users
• Developing Photo Frames for Yandex.Disk for Android and Windows
• Famo.us launches open beta testing of its HTML5 framework
• 16 reasons why software startups fail
• NaturalMotion: don't be afraid to close projects
• Distimo offers Conversion Tracking plugin for PhoneGap
• The webOS team laid out all the work on the interface
• (Eng.) The seventh study of Developer Economics from VisionMobile
• (Eng.) 5 tips for scheduling the correct application update

Marketing and monetization

• Guilty Millionaires: Will Game Development Make You Happier?
• Supercell vs. “air sellers”
• 6 tips from Apple how to create the best icon
• App.io turns apps into online advertising.
• Swrve: most players leave after the first day
• (Eng.) Selling candy to children: Longrid about F2P and children
• (Eng.) Best affiliate and CPA mobile ad networks

Devices

• The project of modular smartphone Project Ara is open to third-party developers.
• Google will provide all US residents the opportunity in one day to buy Google Glass glasses
• Daniel Seeberg: How to stop perceiving a smartphone as part of the body

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