The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 75 (on October 13-19)

A very interesting week was in the mobile market - Apple introduced new tablets, announced the release of WatchKit, iOS 8.1 and Pay, Google released a new Android 5.0 Lollipop and new Nexus, several interesting reports were released. A few dozen more news - in the next digest.

OS on a stick: Google officially introduced Android 5.0 Lollipop

The day of cover failure has come: Android L is now officially called as Android 5.0 or Android Lollipop (“icicle”).
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Apple's October premiere: iMac Retina, Mac mini, two ipads and more

Today, Apple told that millions of people around the world will be found under the trees this year. The list of gifts included: iMac with a retina, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 (however, older generations also have a chance to get under the tree, because their prices have fallen) and Mac mini. And also showed OS X Yosemite, WiFi Direct AirPlay and iOS 8.1.

Do not be afraid of Core Data

Based on a small example based on the real task of developing the mobile client of our social network My World, I want to talk about some of the "underwater" stones and focus the attention of the novice developer on the important points of optimizing the use of Core Data.

WinJS 3.0 - release for all platforms

For the past five months, the WinJS team has focused on ensuring that the library works seamlessly across various platforms and browsers. This means that you can now use WinJS not only for your universal Windows applications, but also for your websites and for creating HTML-based mobile applications using various platforms that use technologies similar to Apache Cordova.