The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 115 developer (August 2-9)

This week, Microsoft released a new tool for compiling iOS apps for the Windows Store, we met HoloLens, a new TestFlight came out, and Android began to release monthly updates and new data on platform fragmentation appeared. Many other materials about development, analytics and design are in the new digest.

Compiling iOS apps for Windows Store

In April of this year, a very interesting announcement was made at the // Build conference, which showed the possibility of compiling and assembling ObjectiveC code for the Windows Store. I am happy to announce that now this technology and tools have become public, you can now download the components of the ObjC / iOS application build for Visual Studio 2015 and build the application for the Windows Store.

Best practices from Google to develop Android applications

In this article I would like to briefly tell you about the latest best practices from Google. I tried to highlight the most basic points so that the reader could immediately understand what exactly any feature gives the developer.

My first experience with HoloLens

Frankly, I was not surprised at the almost complete absence of articles on this topic. It so happened - people who had the opportunity to work with HoloLens, hardly a dozen in the whole country. However, in the framework of the Imagine Cup in Redmond, to take part in which I happened, one of the first test drives of the development tools of this platform was held.