The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 88 (January 26 - February 1)

Many, many interesting materials: a new Stanford course on Swift development, a Pebble emulator, brakes in Android 5, statistics of visits to the App Store and Google Play - news and articles for every taste in the next digest.

Candelabrum vs Lollipop

Our Android development team did not have time to sober up after the celebration of the new 2015, when, in reviews on Google Play, units began to crumble for “brakes”. Units rained down from users of fairly powerful devices like the Nexus 5, 6 and 7. The only thing that united them was the operating system: Android 5 (Lollipop).

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Fundamentals of graphics programming on Apple Metal: Getting started

Today I will talk about how to create a simple application on Metal, which displays a three-dimensional cube with lighting. Then we will draw several cubes using one of the main Metal chips - rendering in several streams.

Cyanogen received $ 70 million from Microsoft, one of the goals is to reduce Google’s control over Android

Familiar with the situation, the sources of the Wall Street Journal claim that the well-known startup Cyanogen received from Microsoft a significant round of funding of $ 70 million. One of the goals of the investment is to reduce Google’s control over Android.

Where did people come from in the App Store and Google Play in Russia in 2014

Where do people come from in app stores? Which sites give the most traffic? We asked Similarweb to share information about visiting the two largest app stores in Russia.