The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 238 (January 22 - January 28)

This week in interesting articles we have mobile clouds, the Xcode energy organizer, the cost of developing games and mobile devices from the inside, “code 9 to 5” and much more!

Render clouds on mobile devices

There are a lot of articles written about photorealistic rendering of clouds, but if you want to draw clouds on your smartphone, you have to invent a bunch of hacks, simplifications and assumptions. Under the cut a detailed description of the rendering of clouds on mobile and a lot of html5 gifs.

Gestalt principles in user interface design

Have you ever looked at the sky, noticed a cloud of unusual shape, resembling an animal or an image of familiar things? Have you ever wondered why and how you just looking at the fluffy accumulation of water droplets, this association arises? This is all because of how our brain works.
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iOS

• (+32) Not a feature, but a bug
• (+24) Report from the Moscow CocoaHeads Meetup meeting on December 15
• (+10) VIPER and UITableView / UICollectionView with simple cells
• Sorting reviews has finally appeared in the App Store
• Energy organizer appeared in Xcode 9.3
• Mastering MVVM on iOS
• 50 questions and answers for interviewing iOS developers: part 2
• Apple Introduces iOS 11.3
• 30 excellent open source libraries on Swift 2018
• Replay Apple Music Now Playing Transitions
• iOS 11 UI Kit for iPhone X
• Swift Official Forums
• Masked and animated corners
• Tilted Tab View: Safari Style Bookmark Control
• StackFlowView: stack of cards for custom UI

Android

• (+12) Kodein - an interesting alternative to Dagger 2 for dependency injection in Kotlin
• (+2) How to cook AR on android. Part 1
• Determined the date and place of Google I / O 2018
• Understanding and mastering the testing of Android applications: part 1
• Loading screen using Physics Animation
• Markup secrets: “layer-list” and “include”
• Using XML Drawables in Applications
• MTP, external storage and your application
• Simple Jarvis using Android Things
• Tips and Tricks Android Strings XML
• How to write the perfect resume Android-developer
• How to present items on the same card in the recycler view
• Jrebel closes
• Why did we choose Flutter and how did it improve our company?
• Experiments with nested scrolling
• How to make Bottom Sheet in Android
• WhatsNew: automatic display of “What's new” in the app
• MusicVisualization: OpenGL music visualization

Development

• (+45) The Yandex Interface Development School again opens the set
• (+40) Cost of game development
• (+24) What's new for mobile developers in Visual Studio 15.6 Preview
• (+22) 7 steps to the career of a developer Xamarin
• (+18) Video recordings of speeches from the lecture day on the gaming industry at the Higher School of Management
• (+15) Creating cognitive connections among players
• (+15) Mobile devices from the inside. The image structure of partitions containing the file system. Part 2
• (+13) How to use all the features of mobile OS in React Native
• “I don’t care about the code”: I’m the developer “from 9 to 5”
• “Developer Skills 2018” report from HackerRank
• How to write clean and beautiful code
• Vulnerabilities in Tinder: photo spoofing and swipe tracking
• Podlodka # 43: Profession - architect
• Creating a font from scratch in 24 hours
• My first application on React Native
• How do i do code review
• How to make a great UX for a design application
• What is code refactoring and why you might need it
• How to create a Vine application
• 9 trends in mobile application design 2018
• 5 common mistakes made by students creating the first game

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• Virtual reality market: an analysis of Steam sales in 2017
• Best game, developer, publisher, analytics: Mobile Games Awards results
• Platforms, Marketing and Earnings: GDC Report “The State of the Gaming Industry 2018”
• Want to increase CPM by 200%? Use gender data!
• Optimization, data protection and interactive: trends of 2018 in the mobile marketing industry
• Less words: how many bring pictures for instant messengers
• 100 sites to promote the application

Devices, IoT, AI

• (+33) How did I do AI to identify fake news with an accuracy of 95% and almost went crazy
• (+26) Xception: compact deep neural network
• (+19) Familiar faces: algorithms for creating a “typical” portrait
• (+7) How we built the data infrastructure in Wish
• AI and machine learning: results of 2017
• Allenovsky Institute of Artificial Intelligence prepares co-founders for AI startups
• How visual AI will change our lives: Pinterest sees the future
• Facebook has opened the Detectron object recognition platform.
• How to make your own VR helmet for $ 100
• Neural networks in business: what, when, examples

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