The digest of interesting materials for mobile developer # 78 (November 2-9)

There are not so many news related to the holidays, but still: an article about “visual” programming in Xcode was published, Xamarin presented free plans for students, the Samsung Gear App Challenge finalists were announced, Parse had Push Experiments and ParseUI. Yes, there was also a series about free-to-play games in South Park!

"Mouse Programming" in Xcode 6 for Swift

Due to the recent need, I had to write under iOS, and I noticed a strong lack of guides in Russian even for elementary actions like “attach some action to a button’s press”, “read data from a text window”. Article for novice developers under iOS, I ask such under kat.
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Meet IntelliJ IDEA 14 here.

Talking about what we have been doing for most of the year, every time we experience and worry. Each new version of IntelliJ IDEA raises the bar for general expectations. Still, every update is another chance for us to prove that there is no limit to perfection.

Is not the user a goat?

In Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), the new isUserAGoat () method has appeared. The purpose of this method is rather vague, the documentation says “Used to determine whether to make this call is subject to teleportations” - is the user who called this method an object for teleportation. The method should return true if the user is a goat. But if you look at the source of the method, you can find out that the method always returned false.

Xamarin opens student programs

The most interesting part is the new student program that allows you to create native Android and iOS applications for free in Xamarin Studio. The offer is available to students receiving a degree or taking courses, the results of which give a diploma.