The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 239 (January 29 - February 4)

In our new digest sound around, learning iOS and Android development, Google Assistant in Russia, its own weather forecast and its own Prisma, UX, UI, machine learning and much more.

How we developed the technology to detect devices nearby

This story began with the function “Near” in one of our mobile apps. We wanted users to quickly create a group chat or add nearby users as friends. We tried to solve this problem with the help of geolocation, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and ultrasound, but for each of the methods we found critical in our case flaws.

UE4 and mobile development: myths and reality

Why do more developers choose UE4 for their projects? What difficulties can you encounter when working on a mobile game? What approaches and pipelines should be used and what should be avoided? Our Pushkin studio experience will lift the veil of secrecy over these and other issues.

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iOS



• (+31) We are pumping WebDriverAgent, or how to test iOS applications after a nuclear explosion. Decryption report

• (+18) Swift Package Manager

• (+10) iOS application development: start a career

• How to make Prisma analog with Fast Style Transfer, CoreML and TensorFlow

• Apple removed Telegram from App Store due to inappropriate content.

• Apple will focus on iOS quality in 2018

• A / B testing on iOS using Firebase

• PWA comes to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem

• Simplify CoreML with Lumina

• Top Swift 2017 Articles

• Swift Parallel Programming: Operations

• Using Transporter to upload metadata on the App Store

• Transformer: AttributedString generator

• Promises: a Google framework for working with asynchronous tasks



Android



• (+21) Meeting Room Little Helper

• (+20) Actions on Google: start developing applications for Google Assistant, which will soon be launched in Russia

• (+12) Developing Android Applications: Start Your Career

• (+10) Google Pay integration

• (+5) Reactive work with Bluetooth in real conditions

• (+1) The most correct splash screen

• Weather forecast app for Kotlin, Retrofit and RxJava2

• Android Dev Podcast. Release 55. News

• We are testing Android UI with pleasure

• Automating Screenshots

• How we migrated from RxJava1 to RxJava2

• Android Encryption Basics

• Android geolocation tracking guide

• How to make your Android application safe

• The most common mistakes that Android developers make in 2018

• Testing in-app purchases on Android

• Facebook Video Enhancement with Litho

• Polish UI: Android StateListAnimator

• Creating a thin Android client in OkCupid

• How to hire the best Android developer



Development



• (+33) Game development for NES in C. Chapters 1-3. From introduction to Hello World

• (+25) We expand bottlenecks Xamarin.Forms

• (+18) UX-research and the strength of evidence

• (+6) Play for an hour or kill time in Unity

• (+4) Object movement to a point in Unity3D

• How to become a React Native developer in 2018

• Scratch - programming language for children

• “It’s not necessary to invent a bicycle in order to earn money on it”: the history of the development of the text quest “Darkness behind Your Back”

• Team member Fuchsia OS introduced the new code editor Xi

• Responsive banking: what it is and why it matters

• Podlodka # 44: Functional programming

• Write a stupid code

• Nine trends UI-design 2018

• “Pay what you want”: Humble Bundle sells books and mobile development courses

• Survey: application development for virtual and augmented reality

• Microsoft bought PlayFab

• #HowDegameGames 206: Playrix about growth, distributed teams and hits

10 laws of UX design

• Best practices onboarding

• How The Room Developers Made a Successful Mobile Game

• Real-world cryptocurrency app - food tracking

• 20 food application designs

• We need less product managers

• What skills make you the best developer

• 440+ free February courses

• How to make your instant messenger



Analytics, marketing and monetization



• Prices for users of dating applications decreased by 18%: Liftoff report for 2017

• Third Mobfox Developer Survey with the ability to win a MWC ticket

• Wag app! for walking dogs received $ 300 million

• Record 4Q 2017 for Downloads and Earnings

• Tinder pricing is recognized as discriminatory

• Does the black-and-white screen mode help combat addiction from a smartphone?

• User Returns: Criteo and Adjust manual

• 6 trends that will determine mobile marketing in 2018

• Make it grow or kill: how to cope with a drop in product use



AI, Devices, IoT



• (+40) Free Tesla K80 GPU for your experiments with neural networks

• (+39) Four ways to deceive the deep learning neural network

• (+36) Mobile devices from the inside. What is GPT?

• (+27) Convolutional neural network: part 1 and part 2

• (+25) Machine learning and chocolates

• (+24) From prototype to production on Kickstarter: $ 100,000 is not enough

• (+13) Mobile devices from the inside. Changing the tablet memory layout

• (+11) Object recognition using PowerAI Vision

• Smartphone shipments in Q4 declined by 6.3% and Apple overtook Samsung

• What to order with AliExpress technology lovers

• Smart city: why should a smart home be with memesh?



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