The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 118 (August 24-30)

New selection with interesting materials on the development, design and monetization of mobile applications - Urho3D, Apple's refusal to work with Sberbank, permissions of Android, experiments with advertising and much more!

The Basics of Urho3D

It is no exaggeration to say that Urho3D is comparable to Unity3D in terms of its capabilities and working with it is just as easy. At the same time, it is free without any reservations (MIT license), available for many platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi, HTML5), incredibly fast and lightweight. Allows you to write games on AngelScript (syntax is similar to C #), LUA and C ++.

Monetization indie games - continue experiments

Yes, from the bygone altruism and enthusiasm, there is not a trace left, I came to the standard scheme “payments + advertising”, but the devil is in the details, as is known. Firstly, I like the way monetization is now implemented - it is understandable, fair, does not cause rejection of players and earns “minimally adequate money”, let's call it that. And secondly, at least I tried to follow the “naive path” and no one would allow me to conduct such experiments on a serious third-party project. I am glad that I myself went this way and am happy to share my experience with you.

Apple refused to transfer developers money to Sberbank

Russian developers of applications for OS X and iOS operating systems will no longer be able to receive Apple affiliate payments to accounts in Sberbank, Vedomosti reports. The corresponding message Apple sent them on Saturday. The creators of the programs proposed to change the payment details.
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