The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 140 (on February 8-14)

In the next digest - the history of porting Petka and Vasily Ivanovich to mobile platforms, the prospects for the App Annie mobile application market, the new game engine from Amazon, the Chinese acquisition of Opera, and many other interesting materials.

The simplest 3D game on libGDX for Android with 200 lines of code

I decided to prepare my lesson describing the basics of using libGDX for Android, and since I am still preparing this material, at the same time I place it here - on a habr. In this tutorial we will make a simplest 3D game for Android, a screenshot of which you can see in the introduction to the article. So, interested, welcome under cat.

How we ported the good old Russian quest

Old games do not get worse with age, but it is becoming more difficult to start them every year. Therefore, like many other publishers, we decided to port one of our best games to modern devices. And they chose the classic quest “Petka and Vasily Ivanovich: Saving the Galaxy” as a sample of the pen.

App Annie Mobile App Market Outlook: Towards $ 100 Billion

App Annie has published its first comprehensive outlook for the development of the application market. Thanks to the new report, companies, institutions, investors and application developers will receive unique forward-looking information about global opportunities for the next five years.
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