Useful materials for mobile developer # 55 (May 26 - June 1)

While waiting for the WWDC, the mobile world did not stop at all - several important events happened at once this week. App Annie bought Distimo, Microsoft - Capptain, the largest Russian developer of mobile games, decided to move its headquarters to Lithuania, a new Unity 4.5 was released, Crashlytics released its beta application distribution platform.

App Annie buys Distimo

App Annie receives $ 17 million in development from its investors. And buys its most direct competitor - Distimo. Distimo headquarters will be renamed App Annie Netherlands and the company will operate as the European App Annie R & D center. The founders of Distimo will take leadership roles in the combined company, sales offices in London and San Francisco will be connected to the offices of App Annie.
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Android development application for working with OBDII protocol

Have you ever thought about displaying the parameters of your car in your own Android application? If yes, then welcome - we will just discuss the development of such an application.

The effectiveness of reviews of simple games for iOS

To check the formula, a sufficiently large statistical sample is needed - about 10,000 honestly loaded applications. I tried to solve this problem with the help of reviews on 4 Russian and 2 foreign sites. In addition, I tracked the most popular button presses in the first version of the program, removed the minor controls, took into account the players' remarks and obtained the following results.

IOS development

On the eve of the release of iOS 8, the degree of impatience grew continuously and more and more new concepts of appearance with different degrees of confidence appeared. Let's take a look at how Apple’s mobile OS has changed from version to version, and what type and capabilities it has found in its newest incarnation, the eighth.

Game Insight moves headquarters to Lithuania

Game Insight announced the relocation of the company's headquarters from Russia to Lithuania. The head office of the company will be located in Vilnius and be responsible for all international operations, marketing, game development management, as well as interaction with platforms and business development in all regions of the world.

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