The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 167 developer (August 15-21)

In the new digest, application security issues generated by Pokemon Go, launch speed, Tim Cook games, freemium and game design. A picture ... Picture from an article about Kotlin, everything is in order!

The future of mobile security, or what Pokemon can teach us

Since the advent of Pokemon Go, I have been following with great curiosity everything related to this toy. Oddly enough, it gives an insane amount of interesting information - primarily regarding the development of mobile applications. It would seem that you are engaged in the development of banking applications - what is the connection here? But no, you will also find something to learn from Pokemon.

Record time: how we increased the launch speed of Mail.Ru Mail application on iOS

The article focuses on optimizing a large-volume application code that has a relatively long history of development and has managed to accumulate during this time a lot of visible and hidden from the user functionality. The challenge was to reduce startup time without cutting back on functionality.
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