The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 96 (on March 23-29)

This week's main feature was the F8 conference from Facebook, where the social network presented many interesting tools and solutions for developers. But besides its premieres, there are many other exciting things: the online school of Android developers, the large investments of Cyanogen, an interesting article about the era of phablets, prototyping in Sketch, a review of the Russian mobile market, and a few dozen materials in the new digest.

Free online school of Android developers

The new school course will consist of 13 lectures on Android-development. Representatives of such companies as Tinkoff, Aviasales, JetBrains, OK.RU, Kaspersky Lab, Parallels, LinguaLeo, Mail.ru, ABBYY took part in the lecture notes. During the course, experts will tell not only the theory of development for Android, but also show various chips, as well as share original ideas that appeared in the process of working on their own applications.

How I saved a few lives with optimization and a little about working at Zeptolab

In general, for 500 million installations such things look very funny. For example, our very first system for storing and loading images operated on PNG files, and it took about 15 seconds to load the level on the test device.

And we have an SDK, and you?

History has many cases when the introduction of a partnership program in any project led to a sharp growth and rapid development of this project. We will not reflect on the pros and cons of implementing partner programs in this article, let's say easier - we decided to lead our projects, including along this path.
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