The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 121 (September 14-20)

We close the next week with a Yandex win from Goolge at the Federal Antimonopoly Service, a material design competition, the release of iOS 9, the completion of the Mail.Ru design competition, the opening of advertising applications in Yandex.Direct.

Testing on Android: Robolectric + Jenkins + Jaoo

Testing Android applications is a big and capacious topic, you can talk about it endlessly. We at Rambler & Co autotest love, write and actively use for all of our applications. In this article we will explain how to get and analyze the results of testing android (and not only) applications.

Time to materialize: a contest for Material Design from Google

To date, more than 200,000 applications on Google Play have been reworked, taking into account material design guidelines. If you have already updated your app on Google Play to Material Design, or are planning to do it in the near future, then take part in the Material Design contest, which started this week and will last until November 15th. Playing out: placing your application in the section featuring the Google Play store, tickets for the annual Google I / O conference and Nexus 9 tablets.

Working with lighting in Unity - theory and practice

In video games, beautiful real-time lighting beats heavily in performance, which is especially noticeable on mobile devices. Thus, developers are forced to look for workarounds for this problem. Lightmapping is a technology that preserves information about lighting in texture, which allows you to free up computing resources for other needs. In this article I will introduce the reader to the theory of lighting in games, describe the process of creating a “lightmap” in Unity 5, and share some tips.

FAS has recognized Google as violator of antitrust laws

On February 18, Yandex filed an application with the Federal Antimonopoly Service with a request to check Google for violation of the antimonopoly legislation of Russia. Yandex believes that the American competitor needs to separate the Android operating system from Google search and other services. Otherwise, the principle of free competition in the market of Android-smartphones is violated, where Google can exert pressure on manufacturers wishing to use their own versions of Android-based firmware.
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