The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 90 developer (February 9-15)

There are only ten issues left until a hundred, and we continue to discuss the work of Yandex.Metro, develop on SpriteKit and HomeKit, look at how people code, looking for the best use of iBeacon. All this and much more in the weekly digest!

How I created a mobile fighting game for iOS

As a child I loved to dream about who I would become when I grow up. Which path to choose: space or ocean depths? No, I wanted to create games. Why games? I grew up at a time when the mind of any boy was poisoned by a computer boom and the first console battles. Years passed, my dream fell asleep, crushed by working days. And then one day ...

Oddities in the work of Yandex.Metro: debriefing and update applications

Last week on Habré there was a popular post about oddities in the behavior of the Yandex.Metro application for Android. We take very seriously the privacy issues of our users and the correctness of the behavior of our programs and, as a result of the post, we conducted an internal investigation (+ we spy on everyone with Yandex.Metro ).

The first experience of developing games on SpriteKit

After creating and displaying games on SpriteKit in the App Store, I would like to share my experience. I will talk a little about the creation of gameplay, as well as about attempts to connect with publishers and about the impressions of the framework.
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iOS

• (+23) Creating an iOS application. From idea to result
• (+17) Apple oil company?
• (+14) We write a full-fledged tweak for iOS using iOSOpenDev
• (+13) Twitter reduces losses, loses 4 million users because of iOS 8
• Apple prohibited placing weapons and scenes of violence on icons and screenshots , increased the size of applications from 2 to 4 GB
• Tim Cook: our task is to do better than anyone, not more
• Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2 released
• Silver: Apple Swift implementation for .NET, Java, Android and Cocoa API
• First impressions from React Native

Android

• (+27) Eliminate spaces, learn Android
• (+18) Automation of the Android development process: the beginning
• (+7) Kali NetHunter. Mobile pentest platform
• Android is a more stable OS than Apple iOS.
• How to create applications using HomeKit
• I / O 2015 will be held May 28-29 in San Francisco
• Animation RecyclerView (Part 1 and 2 )
  
• Implementing a floating action button ( 1 , 2 , 3 )

Windows phone

• (+20) Application Insights - we collect telemetry of Windows Phone and Windows applications
• (+17) "Difficulties" of transfer of applications for Windows Store
• (+13) Quick review of Windows 10 for smartphones
• (+9) 8 tips for creating successful applications for Windows and Windows Phone in 2015

Development

• (+19) Continuous Integration with Unity
• (+14) The Minister of Communications promised grants for the transfer of Russians to Tizen and Sailfish mobile OS
• (+6) We develop analytics system
• Watch People Code: how people program
• NVIDIA open discussion: gaming of the future and the future of gaming
• 3D Robotics has opened an application for managing drone developers
• Mobile App Testing
• MyScript has released Geometry Widget
• One-day games: Why mobile developers fail to succeed

Marketing and monetization

• How to make a good aso
• SMS, email, push-notifications: when to use them?
• Kahuna makes deep links personalized.
• App Pin to open apps appeared on Pinterest
• Alexander Mashchukov (LovePlanet): the mobile market has not been so firmly divided yet
• Are paid mobile games viable?
• Soup and newspaper: how the Swedes are looking for the best use of iBeacon
• App Annie told which portfolio strategies adhere to the most successful mobile gaming companies

Devices

• (+25) Research: Interception of the mobile Internet traffic through GTP and GRX
• (+17) The reason why Google Glass, Amazone Fire Phone and Segway failed
• In 2014, 720,000 Android Wear devices were sold.
• Apple received 93% of all mobile market revenues

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