The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 279 (December 10 - 16)

In the new digest we have a smart inquiry about geolocation and how applications share data with advertisers, Metal and SceneKit for developers, application history for $ 500,000, best SDK, growth and advertising 2018.

Doom of SceneKit. Yandex experience with 3D graphics in iOS

SceneKit is a high-level three-dimensional graphics framework in iOS that helps create animated scenes and effects. It includes a physics engine, a particle generator and a set of simple actions for 3D objects that allow you to describe the scene in terms of content — geometry, materials, lighting, cameras — and animate it through a description of the changes for these objects.

Recognizing Android Things with ABBYY RTR SDK and django

The device on the Android Things platform can be a good solution: it is mobile, easily configured and can work via Wi-Fi. We decided to try to use ABBYY technologies and find out how they are suitable for such situations - text recognition in the stream on “non-standard devices” from the Internet of Things category.
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iOS

• (+31) Controller, easy! We take out the code in UIView
• Court bans iPhone sales in China
• State machine for game developers
• Optimize images on Swift
• Understand CharacterSet in Swift

Android

• (+17) Modern Android development on Kotlin. Part 2
• (+16) Dynamic testing of Android applications
• (+5) Under the hood JobIntentService
• Google added Fuchsia to the Android Open Source Project
• Best SDK for Android 2018
• Android Dev Podcast # 81. Mobius Conference
• Night Mode ++
• What the new application publishing format means for the future of Android
• Adaptive icons - it's easier than you think.
• We use vector assets in the Android application
• Machine learning in action: do the translator at Kotlin
• 10 things every Android developer needs to know about architecture
• Size does matter: how the size of the application affects users
• We refuse Jenkins
• How to fill the base of the room before the first launch
• Kotlin clean architecture example
• Embarrassing dependencies

Development

• (+80) Apple Metal in MAPS.ME
• (+30) Mobius 2018 Moscow took place, long live Mobius 2019 Piter
• (+21) Telepathic payments, writing to an elephant wash and other test tasks for UX editors
• (+19) How to write an excellent VKontakte news feed in 20 hours
• (+18) How medical routing works - we tell on the example of the DOC + application
• (+11) Unity - pitfalls of 2D game development
• (+11) Generation of environment based on sound and music in Unity3D. Part 2. Creating 2D tracks from music
• (+8) Five principles of grocery design in Booking
• (+6) We implement accessibility support without changing the visual component of the mobile application
• (+4) Developing a UI with Flutter
• Podlodka # 89: Performance
• Hackathon, laughing
• Epic will release an SDK for cross-platform games
• Main trends in mobile development in 2019
• Scorocode has released a new version of the service
• How we created the app with an income of $ 500,000 a year, which Apple repeated
• Messenger as a platform: where Telegram, WhatsUp and Facebook Messenger develop
• Top 2018 React Native Apps
• Mobile Slack Redesign
• Redesign Tube Buddy
• Flawless application update
• Mobile conferences and events for 2019
• 5 things to do differently in your product's UX
• Auto Test Strategy
• Top Mobile Management Tools
• Drawing the future today: the Airbus app iflyA380
• Create usability with motion: the UX manifest in motion
• Trends in application development 2019
• Mobile Application SDK Guide 2019
• Using SQLite in Flutter
• Trends UI and UX 2019

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• Appodeal report on trends in the mobile advertising market. Mobile In-App Ad Monetization Performance Index
• Training course “Search Ads intensive: from basic concepts to advanced techniques”
• Faire: re-inventing wholesale
• Vitamin Water will pay $ 100,000 a year without a smartphone.
• AppOnboard received another $ 15 million
• App Growth Awards 2018 Winners
• Snap bought Teleport for $ 8 million
• Your apps know what you did last night and don't keep it a secret
• Why bad returns happen with good applications

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+38) Roadmap of mathematical disciplines for machine learning, part 1
• (+35) Vector views of products, or another application of the Word2Vec model
• (+34) Smart home control system on the knee: Tarantool
• (+18) Using an external wireless thermometer Buro H999 in conjunction with homemade devices
• (+17) Machine learning with Node.js using the Tensorflow.js library
• (+5) Compute Module, model 2019
• LG introduced the HomeBrew capsule craft brewery
• Internet of Things Digest: November 2018
• Using TensorFlow object recognition for playing Counter Strike
• Leading machine learning projects 2018 version of Reddit
• How I Made a Bot Playing Castlevania (NES)

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