The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 183 developer (December 5-11)

In the new digest tuning compilers, the best applications of 2016 according to Apple, the new SDK and API, the forecast for the application market for the next year from App Annie, and of farewell to Pebble - now officially the pioneers of smart watches “everything”.

Case: game development through the eyes of a designer

It turned out that he made a prototype of the game in the genre of puzzles. I am far from all these classifications, periodically I play in completely different games, but I don’t really think about where I grew up from. As a result, as I understand it, our project is a kind of an evolved version of Sokoban. So I got to know about Sokoban from him.
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iOS

• (+20) Tuning Swift compiler. Part 1 and 2
• The best apps and games of 2016 for iPhone and iPad, according to Apple
• Basecamp 3 iOS app redesign: a step towards simplicity and clarity
• Expandable cells in table view
• My favorite keyboard shortcuts in Xcode
• Search advertising on the Apple App Store: impressions, popular words and relevance
• Top 5 best libraries of December for iOS
• App Store Illusions
• TinyConsole: a small console in the application
• AsyncDisplayKit: version 2.0

Android

• (+20) A critical vulnerability was found in the AirDroid application that allows for MitM attacks
• (+13) Android developers have reduced the size of updates by an average of 65%
• (+4) Dual-pane using fragments
• “Actions” for Assistant: Google opens platform for developers
• Lectures on the launch of games on Android from Google
• Android Dev Podcast. Issue 23. Virtual and Augmented Reality in Android
• Create splash screen for Android
• Offline application architecture for the next billion
• Jumping animation
• Android without a life cycle: MPVsV approach with Moxy
• The best open source libraries for Android
• Reverse Engineering Open API for Instagram for Instagram
• Rewriting a TODO app on Kotlin
• Using cache in Android Studio to speed up Gradle builds
• Creating a custom View and posting it on GitHub
• FolioReader: open ePub reader for Android
• WaveLoading: animation in the form of a wave
  

Development

• (+10) How Ionic 2 helps me to penetrate into angular 2
• (+4) Josh Clark: Myths about mobile design
• (+3) How many stars shine, part 2: Habrainterview with players, developers and publisher of "Space Rangers"
• Facebook Instant Games and Application Economy Balkanization
• Yoga: cross-platform layout engine from Facebook
• Discord releases SDK for voice chat in games
• Unity transfers head of machine learning from Uber
• Leading companies create World Virtual Reality Association
• 5 things I learned in LEGO
• No need to consider balance!
• Classmates open gaming platform for all developers
• All Lingvo dictionaries for developers in the Lingvo API
• Open As App instantly turns tables into mobile apps
• DeepMind will open gaming machine learning platform code
• $ 882 and 89 thousand downloads of sadness - the history of the application "Tlen"
• Best practices micro-interactions

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+18) How we turned $ 140 thousand on Kickstarter into $ 40 thousand of debt, and then went to zero
• $ 166 billion: App Annie Forecast for the App Market for 2017
• Pinpoint launches on AWS for targeted push messaging
• Should I use the device in the screenshots?
• MOMRI study on children's mobile games and developmental applications
• Gaming Marketing: Everything You Need on One Page
• Advanced tracker settings in AppMetrica
• How Punch Club was released: The Story of Lazy Bear Games
• Native advertising gives 30-40% more clicks

Devices and IoT

• (+14) Protocol stack for the Internet of things
• One third of users stop using fitness trackers and smart watches
• Pebble stops working and goes to Fitbit
• CodeMade.io: a collection of open IoT projects
• Pebble: From $ 740 million to $ 40 million in one year

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