The digest of interesting materials for mobile developer # 94 (March 10-15)

The main event of the week was, perhaps, the release of Apple Watch - ResearchKit appeared with the clock, iOS open beta testing began and iTunes fell. In addition, there are interesting material design materials, a design guide for Intel Edison, a history of creating timekeeping for amateur racing. All this and more in a weekly digest for anyone interested in mobile development!

Broadcast Apple Spring Forward

The main novelty is, of course, Apple Watch - new smart watches with prices ranging from 350 to 17,000 dollars.

Open-source instant messenger for autistic children

Emodzhi is very cool, but sometimes not enough. There are user groups with limited communication capabilities that need something even simpler. Ideally, what would "it itself speak and show." While it is necessary to invent some intermediate options.

Material Design: to the moon and back

In this article, I outlined the main principles of Material Design and gave advice on their implementation. The text is written in the wake of the master class for developers, which we, the Robots, arranged together with the Russian office of Google (Think Mobile).

Connect to Intel Edison via Android with Bluetooth LE (BLE)

The task of the article proposed below is to show how to write code for connecting hardware using the BLE protocol using the example of the Intel Edison platform and an Android device with Bluetooth version 4.0. It uses only free software and inexpensive “iron” components that are ready to go.
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