The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 98 developer (April 6-12)

The week has come out very rich and interesting - there are stories of novice developers, and conversations with Windows Phone, and cross-platform development from Parallels, and even building your own smartphone. I congratulate you all on Cosmonautics Day and propose a new digest!

AppStore comprehension path or how much experience?

Always loved to read developer stories. I liked to recount their victories and incomes, but especially - to present myself in their place. Did not pay attention to stories with a sad ending. He walked forward with burning eyes and thought that this would be enough. Below, I described the path from the dream of creating an application and a huge income to the harsh reality of all indie developers.

Ice cream candy, or how to add some Material to your application

The fifth version of Android was released almost six months ago. Despite this, most applications in the market still persist in the style of Holo. Whether the new Material-style is too tough for the average developer, or Android L has not yet managed to firmly enter into routine.

Talk to me, Windows Phone

Cortana has not yet become available for Russian-speaking users of Windows Phone 8.1, and this is expected soon, I suggest you make a fun April application yourself, with which you can talk to the phone, order them, and maybe play.

How to cross the border: cross-platform in a mobile application

Today, more and more applications are being created for several mobile platforms at once, and applications created initially for one platform are actively ported to others. Theoretically, you can completely write an application “from scratch” for each platform (that is, in fact, only the idea of the application is “cross-platform”). But this means that the labor costs for its development and development will grow in proportion to the number of supported platforms.

How I decided to go to game dev

For 3 months of adventures, problems with Apple, repairing 2 buggy unfinished Google plugins for Unity, in which I understood about as much as a monkey with glasses, lack of income and constant difficulties that threatened to put up a cross if not in the whole game, then a significant part of it or on the publication under one of the platforms, I was pretty pretty exhausted. Yes, and new knowledge had to swallow as much as in the last 3-4 years. Therefore, I leave on vacation to swim in the sea and look at the fish. And then find a job.
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