The best phone for games, game market development forecasts, Telegram competition - and other news of the week for a mobile developer

Named the best smartphone for games!

The company GameBench has published an interesting study and identified the best smartphone for games in terms of performance. They are Apple's iPhone 6!

4 devices underwent testing:

• Apple iPhone 6 (iOS);
• Samsung Galaxy S6 (Android);
• Nexus 6 (Android);
• HTC One M9 (Android).

On each of the devices, testers played the same games for 15 minutes, on the same level, with the same graphics settings. Some of the highest quality and most popular games on mobile platforms were selected for testing: Asphalt 8, Dead Trigger 2, Modern Combat 5: Blackout, Marvel: Contest of Champions, GTA: San Andreas and Monument Valley.

GameBench compared the device in three ways:

• average FPS (number of frames per second);
• minimum FPS;
• FPS stability.

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The winner in each criterion was exactly the iPhone 6. The FPS on this device did not fall below 32 FPS, and the average value was 40 FPS.
We must pay tribute to the Galaxy S6, whose performance is not far behind the winner (29 FPS and 36 FPS, respectively).

In an endless argument between the iPhone and Android, Apple fans got another strong argument :-).

Google changed the search results in favor of sites with a mobile version

On April 21, Google launched a new search results algorithm. This event has already received the name "Mobilegeddon". Now sites with a mobile version will appear in the search above those who do not think about the mobile-frienfdly version.

Google checks sites for four criteria:

• lack of content that is not supported by a number of mobile devices;
• availability of text that is readable without scaling;
• using content that does not require horizontal scrolling or scaling for viewing;
• placing hyperlinks at a sufficient distance from each other so that you can easily press them with your finger.

You can check your site against these criteria using the special Mobile-Friendly Test service from Google itself.

The share of mobile search traffic is increasing at a rapid pace, and Google is trying to push everyone to believe that having a mobile version of the site is no longer an extra nice feature, but an important necessity!

Competition from Telegram

The creators of the Telegram messenger launched the first stage of the competition for Android developers with a prize fund of 1 million rubles. The end of the first stage is May 20th.

At the first stage, you will need to create a simple message manager based on the Telegram API using the TDLib library. The functionality should include login / registration, viewing the list of chats, viewing one chat, sending messages.
Must have support for 4.x and 5.x oc Android.

Works will be accepted on the last day of the competition in apk format. More details about the competition can be found in the group .

In 2015, the volume of the gaming market will reach $ 91.5 billion

Analytical agency Newzoo has published a new study according to which the volume of the global gaming market in 2015 will grow by 9.4% and amount to $ 91.5 billion. And already in 2017, the total revenue from games will be $ 107 billion.



Reductions in console game revenues (-16%) compensate for increased tablet revenues (+ 27%) and personal mobile devices (+ 21%).

It should be noted separately that this year China may become the largest market for games, which will be ahead of the United States. According to Newzoo, revenues from the game in China will grow by 23% over the year and amount to $ 22.2 billion, against $ 20 in the US. The American market is very saturated and has almost reached its maximum, showing an annual growth of 3%.



Latin America will show the largest growth - 18%. We have already noted that the main driver of this growth will be the mobile market for Android devices. Nevertheless, its volume will be only 4.4% of the world.

In Russia, will support the Internet of things

The venture fund StarNet VC was created by joint efforts of Russian and foreign entrepreneurs. The Foundation will support projects of the field of wearable devices and the Internet of things. Primarily for the fund are important issues such as developing software for and reducing the power consumption of smart devices.

At the moment, the amount of the fund is $ 50 million. At the first stage, the fund is ready to support start-ups with investments of about $ 1 million. Gennady Medetsky will be the fund manager.

The head of the foundation said that four startups were selected at an early stage: Glance (developed a smart home control system), Geo Watch (engaged in producing watches with a GPS tracker for children), InHome (created a power supply system for M2M devices without batteries) and Emdea (develops a blood pressure monitoring system).


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