The digest of interesting materials for the mobile # 341 developer (on April 13 - 19)

In the new digest, a million and a million steps shooter, test scaling and migration to Kotlin, wave function collapse and healthy sleep, app landing pages and ugly interfaces.

A millionth shooter from scratch: an indie developer path

The story is good in that, in addition to the happy end, it also describes major misses, thanks to which invaluable experience is gained. And most importantly - the guys are happy to share all the details and the list of rakes that they collected on this long journey.

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iOS

• (+2)  Test yourself in Swift: a puzzle for puzzle lovers
• iPhone SE: a powerful new smartphone in a classic compact design
• Guide for testing iOS subscriptions
• Playing advanced Lottie animations
• Easy ways to create animations in Swift
• Analyze Swift code using SourceKitten
• Make Swift API client using Generics, Codable and Combine
• Create dominoes on SwiftUI
• 7 best resources for learning SwiftUI
• 15 useful iOS books and courses to help you become better
• How to use Google Maps SwiftUI SDK
• Lidar: a look into the future with iPad Pro
• RoundCode: round QR codes
• TagsList: tag cloud for iOS

Android

• (+17)  Scaling android testing in Odnoklassniki
• (+12) Tcl / Tk. Alternative file explorer for Linux and Android platforms
• (+6)  How we added Harmony OS support to the inDriver Android application
• (+4)  Using the Snappy key-value database in Android
• (+3) Declarative programming of client-server applications on Android
• (+2)  Slider component from the material design library
• Migration Duolingo Android-app 100% Kotlin
• on Google Play, there were "approved by the teachers' applications and a children's section
• All Android the Broadcast # 12: How to pass the interview in a dream company
•Colonist library: finding classes when compiling an Android application
• Adventure in Compose - Doom fire effect
• Working with updates in an application in Android
• Android Jetpack Navigation from the point of view of an iOS developer
• Evolution of Adapters in Android
• Animations in Jetpack Compose using Transition
• Understanding the Android build process: what is Dalvik (JIT) , ART (AOT), D8, R8?
• Coroutines: first things first
• AnimeXStream: watching Anime
• Blitz: relative time for TextView
• kmpapp: Kotlin Multiplatform and MVVM

Development

•(+30) We  deal with the wave function collapse algorithm
• (+25)  How to prepare the game for porting to PC and console
• (+19) Design is a design, not the beauty of pictures
• (+15)  Flutter. Asynchrony and parallelism
• (+10) DevOps tools not only for DevOps. The process of building a test automation infrastructure from scratch
• (+7)  Personalized interface. Part 2. Automatic navigation settings
• (+6)  EU warns: privacy cannot be violated under the pretext of coronavirus
• (+5)  Unity Addressables: there is always enough memory
•(+3)  UX-research of RBS: our experience, mistakes and discoveries
• (+3)  When to stop the process of recognizing a video sequence?
• (+2)  An alpha version of the MANU game engine has been released
• (+2)  Flutter support has been added to CodePen
• Podlodka # 159: Healthy Sleep
• Saint AppsConf 2019 video
• Scratch is in the Top 20 popular programming languages
• New Developer Economics report
• How we reduced the cost of using the Google Maps API by 94%
• The main command functions of GitHub became free
•Why I love ugly and complex interfaces (and you probably too)
• Mail.ru Group launches Games Cup 2020
• Apple and Google create a contact tracking system
• 1 million steps, or how to develop an application for yourself
• Real return on investment in UX: B2B redesign cases
• Optimization of mobile 3D projects
• How to deal with dismissal if you are a developer
• Flutter and Zeplin: speed up the development process through design
• Real-time messenger on Flutter
• If you want to become a Senior developer, stop focusing on syntax
• Top 10 widgets for developing Flutter applications
• Build a React Native application with Expo
• Design Guide: top bar
• I redesigned the infamous IOWA application in 30 minutes
• Four reasons why everyone but scientists write sloppy code

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+1) Objective testing of quality indicators using Customer Journey Map
• Roskomnadzor will block pirates in the App Store and Google Play
• LOVEMOBILE # 05: Bidease
• 40% of mobile players use bots
•myTracker started beta testing APIs for direct event transfer between servers
• make sense: about Value nurturing, subscription model and content in the product
• Hypnopedia became a product of the day at Product Hunt
• Apple Search Ads may go beyond the App Store
• Number of mobile impressions advertising has grown
• Pengea: work for beginners
• LPFMA: landing pages for mobile applications
• ESRB started tagging games with lootboxes
• iOS share in the USA is growing
• Experience instead of money: how to (not) make money on a mobile application in Russia
•How the prioritization of tasks in the backlog saved the company from closure during the pandemic. Stories of the launch of three products from Vitaly Myshlyaev

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+39)  Modifying MQTT Proxy
• (+30) How we learned to recommend films and why you should not rely only on ratings
• (+9)  We assemble the simplest ZigBee network, program under Mbed, we communicate through MQTT
• (+7)  What is the new nRF Connect SDK for Nordic? Evolution, revolution or alternative?
• (+4)  Data visualization for open-source unmanned vehicles from Uber
• ICQ New launches competition for bot developers
•TensorFlow Lite Model Maker accelerates the deployment of AI models
• Google will release its own processor
• Teach a computer to jump with a strafe in Quake with reinforcement learning
• Best Google AI tools for everyone

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