The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 113 (July 20-26)

This week we studied the changes in the App Store ranking algorithms, the development of 2D games and caching on mobile devices, discussed the release of Visual Studio and the prospects for Apple Car. All this and more - in the new weekly digest.

How I taught English and programming at the same time

In the bookstore, the book “Programming for iPhone / iPad” caught my eye and, being an inquisitive person, I decided to try. I bought a book, MacBook Air (I already had an iPad), installed XCode and started with examples from the book. When I got a general idea of how things work, I wanted to do something useful. Since it is very useful, or rather even necessary, for the programmer to know English, I decided to create such an application.

My first experience in the development of 2D-games (5 tips)

I want to share a little experience that I gained when creating my first game for Andriod. I will say right away, at the time of the development, my programming experience was average (1C and a little C #), and the experience in the game maiden was zero. Unity3D 4.6 was chosen as a development tool, attracted multiplatform and the presence of a large number of video lessons.

Bit Kung Fu, or How to optimize traffic between a mobile application and a server

People always strive to keep abreast of the latest developments. Thanks to this aspiration, many media have emerged that need their own mobile application for delivering content to their readers. So in the shops appeared a great variety of news applications. Hundreds of applications for reading news, newspapers and magazines.

How to make the browser cache not as useless as usual

I want to tell you about how we in Yandex Browser tried to make the cache not as useless to users as usual. In the recently published new beta of Yandex. Browser for Android (we are planning for other OS), you can get access to recently visited sites even in the absence of an Internet connection. And it should work much more reliably and more conveniently, than everything that you saw before.

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Changes in App Store Ranking Algorithms: More Advanced Options

In the App Store over the past days there have been strong fluctuations in the ratings of applications. "A huge number of free applications for iPad around the world began to fall off in the ranking, and many even dropped out of the TOP and lost hundreds of positions." We are talking only about the ratings of applications for the iPad and only for free. All other tops remain unchanged.