The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 86 developer (on January 12-18)

This year's first digest immediately with a mass of interesting materials. Exchange Rates and Monument Valley, Swift's record and the first smartphone on Tizen, Crossy Road and the new analytics App Annie - all this and more in a weekly selection.

Apple has blocked developer accounts in Crimea

In connection with the sanctions imposed by the United States against the inhabitants of the Crimea, all foreign companies must cease their activities in the peninsula. Just yesterday, Steam stopped selling games to residents of the Republic, and today all Crimean developers who used developer.apple.com are blocked on this site.
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How I got to the Top AppStore with a simple application of exchange rates

I want to talk about how I created quite an ordinary and not at all innovative application that objectively became the best of its kind and even stayed for some time at the very top of the top. This is not a success story or a guide to action. I just want to tell you how I managed to make the most popular application in my segment.

Monument Valley: costs and revenues

The creators of Monument Valley, one of the best games of 2014, shared a blog post about development costs and game revenues.

iOS

• (+23) Experience and practical tips for launching an iOS application (custom keyboard)
• (+17) Security Parse in iOS application
• (+1) Creating a browser with history, address bar, UIVisualEffectView
• Swift set a record in the ranking of popular programming languages
• An example of using Swift in a real application from Duolingo
• Free e-book "iOS 8 day after day"
• Apple has limited the number of returns on the App Store
• Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized the Apple agreement with the developers
• 5 things I figured out by creating the first iPhone app

Android

• (+20) The story of another game on Libgdx + Box2d
• (+15) Lightweight library for Warning messages from javac via annotation

Tizen

• Samsung launches first smartphone on Tizen

Development

• (+32) Mobile interface for one hand
• (+22) 2D lighting system for Unity3D, working on the GPU
• (+21) Unity3D Editor: tips and tricks
• (+15) "I have a cool game idea" or common mistakes of young game developers
• (+13) Guide to the Car Tutorial (Unity3d) part 1 of 3
• Tag Games has opened the ChilliSource game engine
• Effective tools for product manager
• Twitter will hold a learning tour and a contest for developers
• Logitech opens Harmony API for developers
• appFigures: Google Play has grown faster than the Apple App Store in 2014
• Microsoft added Visual Studio to the GitHub Student Developer Pack

Marketing and monetization

• (+20) Mobile traffic is stolen from Adwords (redirect to some recseek)
• Message is a product: how to solve the problem of fees for mobile games
• Applause earned in Europe
• What analytics are recommended by mobile developers?
• 5 conclusions from Australia's largest beacon placement
• Crossy Road earned $ 1 million in video advertising
• Opera Mediaworks launches native mobile advertising marketplace
• App Annie launched Usage Intelligence
• AppVirality opens its customization and tracking system.
• Twitter will show ads in tapes on other sites and applications
• How Spotify turned free music into 10+ billion dollars
• An open beta test of the Unity Analytics analytical system has been launched.
• Gameplay Analysis Kim Kardashian: Hollywood

Devices

• (+31) Project Ara: the latest news on the modular smartphone Google
• (+25) A batch of 20,000 Nokia N1 tablets was sold out in 4 minutes and 2 seconds
• (+19) Google Glass will restart
• GlobalWebIndex investigated the spread of mobile devices in the world

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