The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 91 (February 16-23)

The past week will be remembered by the “long-awaited” lawsuit by Yandex against Google, a potential vulnerability in Telegram, the release of the next report by Developer Economics, a debugger for Android from Facebook and the Answers service from Twitter. All this and more in a weekly digest!

Do not be evil

We always believed in the competition and the right to choose the user. So much so that even in our search results from the first days of Yandex’s existence, there are links to other popular search engines. To be honest, I was always sure that Google believes the same thing. What is the company of engineers producing cool products. Alas, it is now clear that in addition to the technical company, which once considered its slogan “Do not be evil”, now there is a completely different one - a company controlled by lawyers and businessmen.
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The story of one failure (the development of the first mobile game) with conclusions and tips

This publication may be of interest to those who are going to do or are already developing their first mobile game and at the same time expecting some kind of financial “exhaust” from it.

Potential Android Telegram Vulnerability

It so happened that I needed to study the source codes of the encryption mechanism, the transmission and decryption of messages in Telegram for iOS and Android mobile platforms. That is, we are talking about client applications, it is their source code (iOS, Android) that are freely available.