The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 95 developer (March 16-22)

This week, PapaBubaDiop threw washers in iOS, Apple moderators threw out applications from the App Store, Google began to manually check applications in Play and introduced new age ratings, Facebook introduced money transfers to its messenger and planned to open it for developers, and Microsoft brought a new loyalty program in Russia. Interesting seven days for everyone interested in mobile development in a new digest.

We will throw the puck in iOS eight

My ideas as smartphone users are straightforward. Therefore - no extra tools for development, except for the library of playing sounds. Resources borrowed from the network. Melodies, design, images, code samples. Everything has been created before us. Copyright - as in hockey or football.

Recognition of the RF Passport on a mobile phone

Solving a seemingly “simple” task, recognizing the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, we faced not one dozen interesting tasks in the field of computer vision, but also in the field of effective software architecture and writing high-performance programs for mobile devices.

Free Pebble Time for Developers

As the discussion shows, and my own example, the clock is rather random, and not for real activity. Therefore, if you are a developer and have not logged in to your CloudPebble account for a long time, it makes sense to do it ...

How to get 2.3 million downloads (without spending a cent on marketing)

Stuart Hull from AppbotX on Medium wrote a story about how his application, which he created in 6 hours, reached 2.3 million downloads, provided him with a full-fledged income and was bought a year and a half later by a large company.
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