The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 74 (October 6-12)

Last week there were a lot of interesting materials, among which, for example, the development of an application for electronic diaries, the use of Xamarin.Forms, the history of the hamburger icon and the correct onboarding in mobile applications.

How I created the application, but was forced to close due to the law

April 22, I closed the application. It turns out that I violated the law on personal data, although I encrypted all traffic and asked people for permission to tick. If I did not close the application, then my uncles would come to me and give me a pretty fine. For further work, it was necessary to obtain a permit, which was well worth it and was made quite difficult. In short, it was not profitable for me to do this.
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“Use standard control” or how we stole the calendar from Apple

In particular, in the article we would like to share the solution of a complex of tasks related to the fast drawing of cells and smooth animation, asynchronous loading of events for the calendar from the database.

Android launchers. Reload ideas

In this publication, I would like to talk about my experience of interacting with the Android system, about the transition from an ordinary user of Google phones to developers and about working on creating an application. Immediately I will clarify, it will not be about utilities or games, but the development of Android launcher.

How we developed our first application on Xamarin.Forms and what came of it

Xamarin claims that using Xamarin.Forms allows you to increase the amount of common code in applications for three mobile platforms (iOS, Android and WP) from 70% to 90%. I had a chance to check this fact out on my own experience. About why this is true and not true at the same time my story.