The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 106 (June 1-7)

Tomorrow we are waiting for a new WWDC, but for now we are talking about how to make money on development, about invitations to the new voice assistant Hound, about the difficult relationship between Apple and Pebble, about mobile traffic and mobile advertising.

Earn on development. The story of a lonely game developer

Today, I would like to share with you a greasy and bludgeoning story about the mental anguish of a dreamer who imagines himself an independent game developer. In order not to be too trite, I will dilute the text with graphs and numbers, as well as summarize a good and life-affirming result under the article.

"Get" an invite for the voice assistant Hound

Many have seen the demo video of personal assistant Hound, which is as good as possible, and even outperforms such well-known applications like Google Now and Siri. Hound is also available for download on Google Play (on the US territory), but unfortunately, it is under development and requires an invite to launch.

New 2GIS under Windows Phone: architecture and technology stack

Shel 2013 year. For a dollar, they gave 30 rubles, and I got a job at 2GIS to develop for Windows Phone. I managed to participate in the launch of the almost ready for that time application 2GIS, which soon became available to our users in the Marketplace.

The ninth survey of Developer Economics comes to an end

Developer Economics is the world's largest study on global trends in application economics and mobile development. It is based on a survey of developers and companies, which the British company VisionMobile conducts every six months.
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