The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 292 (March 25 - March 31)

In our selection for the week there is the creation of a game by a “non-artist”, automated development of garbage, video reports from conferences, development, debugging, crutches and documentation. Welcome!

How to create a game if you are never an artist

In every programmer's life there were moments when he dreamed of making an interesting game. Many programmers realize these dreams, and even successfully, but this is not about them now. Speech is about those who love to play games, who (even without knowledge and experience) and he himself tried to create them, inspired by examples of single characters who achieved worldwide fame (and huge profits), but deep down to compete with the guru igrostroya he can not afford.

How the developers procedurally created a bunch of "junk" mobile games and earned 50 thousand dollars

Two indie developers tell how they used automation, one Google Play account and the only game template about slot machines to create and publish more than a thousand applications.
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iOS

• (+38) Swift 5.0. What's new?
• (+20) "Game of Thrones, move over." What Apple showed today in its Show Time event
• (+18) Video reports with FunTech iOS-meetup # 1
• (+9) UICollectionView around the head: Changing the view on the fly
• Apple introduces Apple Arcade service
• Making cards like Tinder on Swift
• Built-in snapshot testing
• Modularity in an iOS application
• What we learned by switching from MVC to VIPER
• MVC refactoring of MVVM iOS applications with RxSwift and Minutes
• It's time to drop your online library in favor of URLSession
• Using C, C ++ and Objective-C frameworks in a Swift application
• Science Journal: Google's environmental data collection app.
• RoughSwift: drawing in comics style

Android

• (+44) Developing an application for an old PDA (Cybiko Xtreme) in 2019
• (+14) Experience with Coroutines and Retrofit2
• (+8) Termux step by step (Part 2)
• (+7) Create your own Android voice recorder using Kotlin
• Kotlin entered the Top 20 programming languages ​​RedMonk
• Creating live chat on Android with Firebase
• DayNight-theme for Android application
• Basics of functional programming on Kotlin
• Kotlin functions - alternatives to interfaces?
• How I automated the creation of files for new screens with my plug-in for Android Studio
• How Reified Type made Kotlin much better
• How to create a many-to-many relationship with Room and Kotlin
• 5 useful features of Android Studio, which you might not know
• Smooth Swipe RecyclingViews
• Debugging without temporary logs in Android Studio
• Read these books if you want to become an Android developer.
• Perfect Testing: Verify Checks
• Movies: Android Application Modularity and Reactive Clean

Development

• (+33) Raspberry Pi Zero inside Handy Tech Active Star 40 Braille display
• (+27) Grow big: top 10 reports of Mobius 2018 Moscow
• (+22) 10 concepts for the designer in 2019
• (+21) Android Academy in Moscow - talk about how it was and share course materials
• (+14) Unity Package Manager
• (+15) MWC: instructions for use
• (+7) Features of testing hypotheses for mobile applications
• AppSpector: platform for debugging iOS and Android applications
• Sauce Labs earns $ 50 million to improve testing
• Animoca Brands will make a blockchain game for Formula 1
• Flutter Dev Podcast # 2: Expload Arena
• AppsCast # 2: CarPlay - crutches and documentation
• Podlodka # 104: DevOps
• Anniversary and new version of Lottie
• Unity Game Beginners Guide
• We need to talk about Firebase.
• One app to rule them all - a white-label app on React Native
• Former WoW developer explains - game ideas are worth nothing
• 5 reasons why your side project will never become a product
• 570 free online courses in April
• Wildpatro sports app: UX research
• Create Genji - Dash & Double Jump to Unity
• Continuous Deployment for React Native

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• Mobile applications market 2023: Sensor Tower forecast
• Adobe featured car application
• Grindr recognized as a threat to US national security
• Apple Search Ads earned another 46 countries
• MoviePass collects money for an application for free trips to the movies
• Most popular apps for shopping 2015-2018
• “Inductive” CPI case Zorka.Mobi and inDriver
• Scammers sold banners as videos
• 11 mistakes in the launch of the game that I made
• Wipe your game window
• Standard errors of indie game developers
• Free course on high-quality analytics

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+34) Will redeem / not redeem: our ML-pilot in the "Platypus"
• (+20) Cheating Neural Network for Beginners
• (+14) “Smart” house in terms of vulnerability: we deal with vectors and attack mechanics
• (+12) 10 new free courses on cognitive services and Azure
• (+12) Automation of answers to frequently asked questions in the skill for “Alice” using the DeepPavlov library
• (0) 5 trends of the Internet of Things everyone should know about
• Azure opens Anomaly Detector and Custom Vision for all
• In New Zealand, robots will start picking apples.

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