The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 189 (January 30-February 5)

This week, a lot of things came out about the design and animations - the Airtie's Lottie, Sketch in large projects, virtual reality, Bear Notes, which conquered Apple with its simplicity. And besides design - architecture, stickers, PWA, MMO RTS and much more.

The history of the creation of the first game on Unity - from idea to release

I am an indie developer (more recently), 2 years ago, being a fireman, I had the idea to create my own game on Android. From the experience there was only the creation of maps for the Gold Source and Source game engines (the good old ones were built on them: Counter-Strike, Half-Life and many other things), taking the will into a fist, decided that I would definitely cope and started studying the Google Internet search engine.

4 rules of working in Sketch on large projects

The appearance of the Sketch editor greatly facilitated the work of designers. Artboards, Symbols, Styles, a large number of plug-ins and an intuitive interface - all this made us a little happier. In this article I will try to give the rules and techniques that I developed when working on projects, because not only the tools are important, but also their proper use.

Master-master replication and scaling of applications between all IoT devices and the cloud

In this article, I would like to share the experience of solving one interesting problem related to data synchronization between IoT devices and a cloud application. First, I will talk about the main idea and goals of my project, and then I will describe in detail its technical side and implementation: I will discuss Contiki OS, databases, protocols, and similar aspects.

Approaches to design in virtual reality

Although the development of virtual reality technology (VR) is gaining momentum, however, there is still a shortage of methods and design guidelines. In my project for a bachelor's degree, I focused on the user interface, UX, and the problems posed by virtual reality technology.
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