The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 251 (April 23 - April 29)

On these holidays we enter with materials about the work of game techlides, about features in the new App Store, Mobius and Google Play Awards, game engines and the best versions of ourselves. Our next release will be out in two weeks. All spring!

Technical diary: the second half year of the development of a new mobile PvP

In the course of further production, after another six months, I have accumulated a large number of interesting experience, which I wanted to share again. This time we will talk about the process of increasing the functionality in the mobile client and maintaining the code in a flexible state.

How to earn your first $ 100 in the Google Play Market - my experience

In this article I will tell you how I managed to earn the first $ 100 on my applications in the Google Play Market. Which strategies are more successful and what should a newbie pay attention to?
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iOS

• (+14) Inversion of control in iOS
• (+13) How to optimize power consumption in iOS
• (+7) Using the MVC pattern when designing the TableView
• Basics of parallel programming in Swift: part 1
• #HowDownGames: Developing and publishing a Hyperforma game on iOS
• In the App Store feature, most applications are old and free.
• Fichering in the new App Store can increase downloads by 800%
• How to become more productive and efficient in Xcode
• Explore iOS applications without jailbreak
• Parade: Parallax for UICollectionViews, UITableViews and UIScrollViews
• Video try! Swift Tokyo 2018

Android

• (+2) Snake layout and "quantum" particles in Android applications (Part 1) and (Part 2)
• Top Android Apps: Google Play Awards Nominees
• Android Dev Podcast. Release 62. Mobius
• Write your loan calculator. Part 3
• Work with PDF. Reading PDF Files
• ViroCore: SceneKit for Android
• Handling fatal errors in Android
• Laboratory LiveData + ViewModel + Room
• My favorite Kotlin functional programming examples
• Excursion to clean architecture
• CircleCI and Android
• Introducing Constraint Layout 1.1
• HQ Trivia Reverse Engineering
• Why choose MVVM, not MVP
• Getting started with Retrofit on Android
• Updated official website for Android developers

Development

• (+26) Lessons learned during the creation of the first game, and why I want to write my own engine
• (+20) Mobius-2018: robo report
• (+16) How I wanted to teach others, and as a result I learned myself
• (+12) How to improve the quality of your work
• (+12) Internship at e-Legion
• (+10) 7 best reports of Mobius: version of EastBanc Technologies
• (+8) How to improve channels in Telegram?
• (+7) Mom's girlfriend's son's style
• (+7) “Secret passenger”: collecting feedback from consumers “on the fly”
• People do not buy products, they buy an improved version of themselves
• Developer Diaries: Babycare №3
• Vive Pro has augmented reality SDK
• Making your code cleaner
• VKontakte holds a contest for mobile interface designers.
• Podlodka # 56: Korutins, Promises, Actors
• ProfsoUX 18: “Evil Interfaces” and “How to Fall in Love with Your Product”
• 7 basic rules for button design
• Comments in the code: good, bad, evil
• Dark or light UI? How to choose the right color
• Does the quality of the UI / UX design affect the success of the product?
• 3 applications with great search: lessons
• Top 15 mobile game engines 2018
• What does C mean in MVVM-C
• Smooth animation in React Native
• uRacer: The King Of The Drift In Open Source
• 16 animation libraries for onboarding
• 9 libraries for your React Native project

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+19) Trend in product monetization? Epic Growth Story with Oleg Khaustov (Delivery Club)
• (+16) Insolence and enthusiasm for rapid growth from Aviasales
• (+11) Epic Growth Story with Denis Pushkin: how does Growth Hacking work in Skyeng?
• Mobile Action launched Ad Intelligence - tracking ad campaigns
• How ILV locks have affected Telegram and other applications reviews.
• Pricing in F2P games and SaaS: how to set the best price
• Owners of top-end smartphones spend more money in games
• Creating a promotional video for the app store
• User acquisition strategy: 12 channels
• Understand consumer mobile travel

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+42) Difficulties of translation: how to find plagiarism from English in Russian scientific articles
• (+32) Whose weather forecast is more accurate?
• (+12) Mustaches, paws and tail: how the neural network recognizes cats and other objects
• (+12) How does Qlean use Machine Learning?
• (+5) Casinos hacked through thermostat in aquarium
• Disney introduced a vest for a sense of virtual reality.
• Snapchat has released a new version of Spectacles
• Maybe you do not need AI / ML and you will manage with SQL queries
• Determination of the brand of whiskey with Core ML and IBM Watson

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