The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 172 (September 19-25)

The App Store is getting empty, applications are integrated with Siri, HoloLens gets its Hello World, cruel reality is ruining mobile FPS shooters, RZD is ordering an application for 67 million rubles - this is only a small part of the new big digest.

September. Emptying apple orchard

This is not a metaphor. The number of applications in the Apple store has decreased dramatically. And this story began on September 1.

Masking Bitmaps on Android

In this article, I want to analyze the tools available in the Android developer’s arsenal for solving such problems and choose the most successful of them. The article will be useful primarily to those who are faced with the need to implement the imposition of the mask manually, without using third-party libraries.
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