The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 154 developer (May 16-22)

The main news of this week is related to the Google I / O conference - the company introduced a number of interesting technologies: Android Instant App, Daydream, new Firebase, which has become a platform for developers and the best replacement for Parse, improvements in the admin part of Google Play, Wear 2.0, Awareness API and much another.

No hares for Android - the history of creation

At some point, the idea to develop an application to play music. Simply put, I needed a comfortable player. There was a desire to listen to music - using a smartphone in a couple of clicks.

Development of the Kinetic Novels: costs, income, statistics, tips, post factum conclusions

Finally, they got around to translating my article, which was published several months ago on Gamasutra (was edited by the editors). I suppose this brief, but informative material, based on personal experience, will be of interest to fellow indie developers and those who ponder "if I should not sip my little toy with blackjack and whores."

Snake fruit or fruit python?

As you may have guessed, it will be about developing mobile applications for the Android platform using the Kivy framework and the Python programming language. On Habré, there are already several articles on this topic, mostly small essays describing in general what kind of fruit this Kivy is, with which it is eaten and a couple of examples, such as Hello World and tic-tac-toe.
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