The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 237 developer (January 15-21)

In the new digest we tell about the special magic HQ Trivia, the most unusual puzzle in Google Play, instant localization, the results of 2017 and the prospects for 2018.

Perhaps the most unusual puzzle on Google Play

I recently calculated that for 5 years I have been creating games in my spare time. During this period, I made several games that can be called successful, judging by the number of downloads. But for real, I am proud only of the last, it is depicted in the picture above. No, this is not a game about lutboksy. This is a set of puzzles, the main idea of ​​which is to combine diverse puzzles in one plot.

Recognizing motion gestures on Android using Tensorflow

Today, there are many different ways to interact with smartphones: touch-screen, hardware buttons, fingerprint scanner, video camera (for example, facial recognition system), D-PAD, buttons on the headset, and so on. But what about the use of motion gestures?

Reverse Engineering iPhone 2G

For the experiments, we will need the phone itself, rejected by Jajebreak, the IFunBox program for viewing and modifying system files, the IDA disassembler, HEX editor. IOS 3.1.3 is installed on my phone, but these modifications will work on other versions (maybe).
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iOS

• (+13) How to cache AVURLAsset data downloaded by AVPLayer
• (+8) Reports from the Red Hot Chili Apples iOS Developer Mitap
• App Store has updated web version
• Apple plans to integrate applications for the iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Apple began selling the clever Colgate toothbrush
• Apple will invest $ 350 billion in the US economy
• 50 questions and answers for interviewing iOS developers: part 1
• The App Store for 2017 paid developers $ 26.5 billion
• How to use SnapKit for the software description konstrint
• The best way to update a UICollectionView with DeepDiff
• Swift Parallel Programming
• RSParser: Parser RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, RSS-inJSON, OPML and HTML

Android

• (+9) Maximally simplify work with RecyclerView
• (+8) Expressive Kotlin. Extensions
• (+3) Communication between the computer and the Android device through Processing
• BlueStacks supports Android 7.0
• Android Things: from 0 to “Hello World”
• Android Dev Podcast. Release 54. DevOps
• Use the widget for the application with its own font
• A free book on Android-based development of answers with Stack Overflow
• Simple weather app on Kotlin, Retrofit and RxJava2
• Become an Android artist
• Implement a presenter with Rx or functional reactive architecture
• 25 new Android libraries and projects worth seeing in early 2018
• We work with GraphQL
• Preparing an Android app to work on a Chromebook
• SdkSearch: Android SDK Documentation

Development

• (+52) Update strings on the fly in mobile applications: part 1
• (+32) How to write your own C ++ game engine
• (+28) How many participants can be in a WebRTC call?
• (+16) Technological demo of Book of the Dead and new features of Unity 2018
• (+4) Developing Reusable Reusable Components
• Oculus has launched the Oculus Start Developer Support Program
• Which emoji are most used by programmers
• Stories of developers who got their first job after 30, 40 and 50 years
• How I participated in the hackathon with 13 days of programming experience
• How the Wikipedia app gets ready to work offline
• How Emoji Creation Apple Has Changed My Life
• “Games are an art and incredibly hard work”: Vyacheslav Utochkin about creating games in Russia and gaming industry trends
• Podlodka # 42: Design Systems
• The price of a gaming business that no one talks about
• Podcast AppTractor: Virtual Reality
• How I made 6 third-party projects in 2017
• How to make a ridesharing app
• Principles of Mobile User Interface
• How to become a React Native developer in 2018
• Development of application delivery: useful tips
• Augmented reality is empty - where are all people?

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+23) Interview with Oren Kaniel (CEO Appsflyer) about the mobile ecosystem, investments in technology and corporate culture
• (+4) New process of launching online games in China
• The charity application Elbi Natalia Vodyanova earned in Russia
• Snapchat improves application promotion tools
• TheTool identified the most important factors of App Store Optimization
• Sweatcoin received seed investment of $ 5.7 million
• App Annie: a retrospective report for 2017
• How to achieve user involvement
• Prevention application recognized as “not always effective”
• Danny Trejo promotes the Griffin game
• Magic HQ Trivia
• Mobfox Case: Musi revenue increase by 31%
• Top 10 apps, games and publishers 2017
• A reward strategy for F2P games
• Why are user interviews important?
• 9 forecasts for the application market in 2018
• Top Mobile Trends 2018
• Behavioral profiling: how to make useful player models
• Game development cost

Devices, IoT, AI

• (+28) Available AI for any company: Cloud AutoML
• (+24) Using Intel Movidius for Neural Networks
• (+24) TOP 30 of the most impressive machine learning projects for the past year
• (+18) Own pix2code with blackjack, but without neurons
• (+17) Who is engaged in machine learning and what is now popular in Data Science? Kaggle user survey results
• (+12) Using Grafana with DeviceHive IoT Platform
• (+10) We connect devices of the Internet of things and Azure by means of NodeJS
• (+8) Cross-Platform IoT: Troubleshooting
• Nintendo Switch have added a cardboard constructor
• BlackBerry launched Jarvis service to analyze car code
• Unmanned rooms: the end of Uber, Airbnb and familiar cities
• Depression, loneliness and lack of sleep: how smartphones have destroyed a whole generation
• Create an operating system for the Raspberry Pi

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