The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 76 (October 20-26)

It would seem that after the prime minister of Apple and Google we are in for a relatively quiet week, but no. In Unity, the director changed, Apple launched TestFlight at full capacity, Opera released a report on mobile advertising for the third quarter, the Nokia Lumia brand turned into Microsoft Lumia, and finally Twitter launched its platform for Fabric developers. And this is only a small part of the new digest of news from the world of mobile development.

My little story of the development and publication of mobile games

Choosing a platform, I stopped on mobile and, in particular, on Android. I had nothing apple. By that time, the Android license was worth $ 400. But, while I was in a hurry taking a video course on the basics of OOP programming and Java (there was some experience in php), the guys from Unity decided to give developers the opportunity to make games for Android and iOS completely free, for which they thank you very much.

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Apple obliges developers to create 64-bit applications

Following the public release of iOS 8.1 on Monday, October 20, Apple introduced a number of other innovations, some of which are directly related to developers of mobile applications for iOS.

VisionMobile Eighth Developer Economics Survey

Developer Economics is the world's largest study on global trends in application economics and mobile development. It is based on a survey of developers and companies, which the British company VisionMobile conducts every six months. In the past, for example, more than 10,000 people from all over the world took part.