The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 222 (September 18 - 24)

A digest with a great number 222 - we are again familiar with the work of Android, the new iOS, Kotlin, design and marketing of applications and games.

How Android works, part 2

In this article, I will talk about some of the ideas on which the high-level parts of Android are built, about several of its predecessors, and about the basic security mechanisms.

Mobile Steam Survival Guide for Mobile Developers

Severe developers on Steam will probably find this article naive and superficial, but believe me: there are many developers in Russia who are so focused on mobile markets that they have no idea how this resource works. If this is your situation and you are now suddenly felt the desire to make money in the new market, then this material will be useful to you.
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iOS

• (+6) CGLayout - new automatic layout system in iOS
• (+5) Abstraction of the network layer using "strategies"
• Magic Sudoku: sudoku solution on iPhone
• IKEA application with augmented reality published in the App Store
• The disappearance of the top earning will not affect the analytics
• Immersion in iOS 11
• The projection on the iPhone X is branding only.
• Responsive UI in iOS without AutoLayout
• Sephora iOS Redesign
• Basecamp 3 iOS Hybrid Architecture: Signal vs. Noise
• Face tracking with ARKit
• Top 5 iOS Library September
• Creating custom collections in Swift
• NotchKit: an easy way to hide the tab on the iPhone X
• AudioKit Version 4: a new version of the sound processing platform for iOS

Android

• (+14) Kotlin in production, what did we get, and what did we lose?
• (+8) LibGDX. Practical questions and answers
• (+7) AStA: we collect APK on the device itself
• (+6) Easy work with lists - RendererRecyclerViewAdapter (part 2)
• (+3) Travis CI: automatic loading of assembled modules on GitHub
• Google buys HTC team
• Android Dev Podcast. Release 42. News
• Posting FCM Push with Cloud Functions on Firebase
• Android Things and Firebase
• Android Things Contest
• Realm, ObjectBox or Room: what’s right for you
• Big queries to databases on Android
• Icon with the number in ActionBar
• Top 5 Android Libraries September
• Round Progress View
• Oreo Adaptive Icon Guide
• From design to Android
• We take everything from Android Studio debugger
• Java 8 features on Android

Development

• (+34) Climbing an unbowed mountain: the difficulty of creating a game alone
• (+24) Broadcast from 4C game development conferences in St. Petersburg. Day One and Day Two
• (+20) GeekUniversity opens recruitment for game development faculty
• (+9) “Invisible Design”: we design together with machines
• (+7) How to start young mobile game developers from Russia [Part 3]
• (+4) Create an “external contour” of the ecosystem with independent developers: results of the Skyeng API contest
• Tools for creating good design
• How start-ups pay employees 40% less than what they need
• Why you should not unlock the phone with a face
• Unity has released an SDK for machine learning
• How I stopped being afraid and fell in love with design thinking
• ABBYY helps you remotely identify customers using your smartphone.
• Look for inspiration elsewhere.
• The future of communication: mixed, not virtual reality
• Signs of bad and good UX design for ordinary users
• Designgo.io: a simple, fast and convenient tool for communication between the designer and the client
• For indie developers, game design and marketing are one and the same.
• How I made a CMS for an application on React in one day
• Detox: a framework for testing mobile applications
• Interesting adventure: the creation of a 2D isometric platform for Unity
• Unity 2017.2 with support for ARCore, Vuforia, Windows Mixed Reality, etc.
• AWS React Native Mobile Application Template

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+10) How to make a good movie for the App Store and Google Play
• (+6) The category “Indie” has appeared in the App Store. But it's not about that.
• (+3) ASO at Playstore: add a little humor to the work, or how poetry can help organic growth by 304% in 30 days
• Mobile economy gives 3.8% of Russia's GDP
• The boom of smartphones among the elderly
• “Unresponsive gestures”: Appsee report
• 3 mobile application monetization strategies: how to diversify revenue?
• The mysterious world of indie marketing
• What did the mobile market talk about at Dmexco 2017?

Devices, IoT, AI

• (+96) Achievements in deep learning over the past year
• (+59) How we trained the Yandex.Taxi application to predict a destination
• (+11) Three ideas on how to increase the efficiency of development: the results of the hackathon on Machine Learning in SberTech
• Apple Watch Series 3 problems with LTE
• 4 ways to make chat bots more customer-friendly.
• Cars with Yandex on board
• Blackberry returns to Russia

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