The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 80 (November 17-23)

The eightieth edition of the digest turned out to be a shock - this week came WatchKit and the Android Auto API, the Russian textbook on Swift and a guide for developers from Google, the Nokia Store closed, and Nokia presented its tablet on Android.

What is memory leaks in Android, how to check the program for their absence and how to prevent them from appearing

In this article for beginner android developers, I will try to talk about what “memory leaks” in android are, why you should think about them on modern devices that allocate 192MB per application, how to quickly find and fix these leaks in an unfamiliar application and on What you need to pay special attention when developing any application.
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Apple Watch. What you can and cannot do in applications, parsing the SDK

In order to understand what this device can actually do and how it can be used, we had to get into the SDK immediately after its release.

How I learned from my mistakes or how to make the second game better.

I want to share with you the experience of developing two games for Android, their promotion and talk about the mistakes that I made, and how I decided to avoid them in the future. A year ago, I started making my first game on Android. It all started with an idea. Plain, unremarkable - to memorize the figures on the screen. For the sake of experience and my first project on Google Play, I began to work diligently with my brother.