The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 281 developer (January 7 - 13)

Welcome to the new year! Thank you for reading our digests and sharing! This week we have a great story about how to remain without Baldy, the most earned and downloaded applications in different categories, fast files, application marketing in 2019 and much more.

Patent trolls start and win: how I was left without a game

Everything is very simple: from the end of 2017, LLC Paritet Elevator became the exclusive holder of the “Balda” trademark, and only Parityt Elevator has the right to produce games with this name. In early 2018, dozens of different games called “Balda” were removed from the app stores. Only one remained, protected by Rospatent.

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iOS

• (+34) How to embed C-library in Swift-framework
• (+3) Restraining the imperatives
• The App Store completes the record year 2018 with the most cash pre-Christmas week
• New Year project - an application about cinema for 7 days
• iOS Project Template: an iOS project template with all integrations

Android

• (+11) Navigation inside Android application
• (+7) Parse & Android: recommendations for novice developers
• Android Dev Podcast # 83. Christmas totals
• Create a recorder on Kotlin
• Thoughts after two years of work as an Android developer
• Android SDK: Drawing with patterns
• Background tasks in Android: use WorkManager
• Dependency injection in multi-module project
• Kissme: a multiplatform library for secure storage at Kotlin
• StfalconPriceRangeBar: a library for adding a price range with a schedule like in Airbnb

Development

• (+ 83) What's wrong with GraphQL + And how to deal with it
• (+25) Mathematics in Gamedev in a simple way. Triangulation and Triangle.Net in Unity
• (+22) “Why you need to get fed quickly”: Steve Cotton from Bungie about the creative process in the company
• (+20) Game development and diploma defense or “How I killed two birds with one stone the first pancake”
• (+20) Architectural solutions for mobile games. Part 1: Model + Part 2: Command and their queues
• (+19) An example client-server application on Flutter
• (+19) Use SQLite in Flutter
• (+12) How to work with Shader Graph in Unity3D
• (+9) Flutter application state management
• (+4) Flutter: is it worth starting
• Unity banned SpatialOS
• In AWS, MongoDB replaced its database.
• Square has released an SDK for Android, iOS and Flutter
• Corona game 2D engine becomes open
• State of React Native Development in early 2019
• Jibe Social Platform: UX Research
• Figma Export: exporting components from Figma documents

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+12) Mobile app promotion on real experience in numbers
• Forecasts: Mobile Marketing in 2019
• ASO is a fiction?
• Most downloaded travel apps
• Best Earning Dating App
• Mobile - one of the ways to survive retail apocalypse
• Top earning apps in the Health & Fitness category
• Gamification: a motivation model
• The best analytical platforms for iOS applications

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+48) Adblock Radio Development
• (+17) Data Science: books for entry level
• The smartphone market in Russia set a new record
• Analyzing football with Tensorflow and OpenCV
• A step-by-step guide to creating a simple AI for playing chess

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