The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 85 (December 22-28)

The last digest in the past year and we are summing up the iOS and Android development, remembering which posts were the most popular on Habré, plan for 2015. Holiday greetings! Good applications and interesting tasks!

Trends iOS development 2014

With regards to development, everything should remain the same. The popularity of Swift, MVVM and ReactiveCocoa will continue to grow, new frameworks will be created. As for the application market, for Russia the situation is ambiguous. On the one hand, applications and devices have become much more expensive, but on the other hand, many have already acquired devices and will not part with them.

Results of the year for Android developers

Google is still engaged in the stabilization of the new version. As a result, version 5.0.1 has already been released. It should be expected that this year there will be no global changes. The company will continue to enter the market for watches, televisions and cars and stabilize Android L. And given the current situation with the prices on the iPhone, the number of Android devices in Russia will grow, thereby encouraging customers to look primarily at the Android market.

Architectural design of mobile applications

Lead iOS developer Redmadrobot Egor Taflanidi - on how to achieve a slim architectural design of a mobile application, using classic design patterns and logical separation of source code into modules.

How to scratch any application on the iPhone, and how to prevent it

Once we found a strange error that caused the application to crash steadily. Later it turned out that almost any application can be pretty simple to scratch (even applications written by Apple itself). That this for an error and how to bypass it, we will tell in article.
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