The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 122 developer (September 21-27)

A new selection of interesting materials about the development, design and monetization of mobile applications - the font history of San Francisco from Apple, the development of "Talk" from Yandex, the first great penetration into the App Store, mobile services architects from Mail.ru and much more.

Why did Apple come up with and introduced in iOS a new font San Francisco?

Apple has used the Helvetica font set as a system font for iOS since the release of the first iPhone. They also replaced them with Lucida Grande on Mac OS X, starting with version 10.10 of Yosemite. So why now Apple decided to get rid of the most beloved font in the world?

How we did the conversation: from the prototype on the hackathon to the application of Yandex

Recently, Yandex has released an experimental application, Conversation, which helps people who are deaf and hard of hearing communicate. Now the international week of the deaf is taking place, and we decided that this is a very good reason to tell about our application, about why we did it and how it turned out that Yandex supported our idea. And also about how the process of working on a prototype for a hackathon differs from the release of a full-fledged product.

The history of light and shadow in one small but proud game

They meet, as you know, according to clothes, and when the team does not have the fact that the art director, and even just an artist, an ordinary programmer has to dodge in different ways.

Why is the Facebook app for iOS so big?

Recently in Reddit someone asked - “Why is the Facebook application so big?”. True, really for one of the best IT companies in the world, 110 MB for a “simple” iOS application is the ultimate dream?
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