Digest of interesting materials for a mobile developer #429 (January 24

In the new digest, app translation difficulties and impact analysis, Force Update and Android development trends, game fonts and game composer history, loading screens, app usage, GitHub Actions and much more!

We have a Telegram channel Mobile Insightswhere collections of articles and news are released every day, as well as AppFiles with libraries and the most interesting articles about mobile development!

iOS

• 15 countries, 9 languages: difficulties in translating one iOS application
• Why am I against enum
• Eight questions from iOS developers at hh.ru
• We increase the FPS of applications
• Development of collection abilities in Swift (on the example of the suffix function)
• An Overview of iOS Navigation Solutions
• iBeer Author Shares How He Made Up to $20K in the Early Days of the App Store
• Updated App Store Connect API
• Developers complain about iCloud unavailability
• Apple releases iOS 15 adoption data
• Render optimization in iOS: frame buffer, Render Server, FPS, CPU vs GPU
• Element IDs in XCUITest
• “Hot” and “cold” Feature toggles: how they work
• iPhone will be able to accept payments for business
• Programming Auto Layout by Example
• Coloring Xcode logs for better understanding
• Reduce assembly time by 50%
• Themes, Elements and Structure in SwiftUI
• Best practices for unit tests in Xcode and Swift
• Support for async/await as module owner
• Eliminate “massive AppDelegate” in iOS
• Animations inside ScrollView with SwiftUI
• Controlling Core Image Filter Processing with Concurrency in Swift
• Building a flexible picker with SwiftUI
• Reimagining Coordinators in iOS
• 4 little-known features of Swift
• Auto-repeat asynchronous Swift tasks
• RxSwift integration as XCFramework with CocoaPods
• Skailer: player in neomorphism on SwiftUI
• Swimat: formatting Swift code

Android

• Impact analysis on the example of an Android project
• android broadcast. Android Development Trends in 2022
• “Your app violates Google Play Policies”: reports from hell
• Introduction to Jetpack DataStore
• Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) released
• Android 12. Splash Screen API. Making an animated loading screen
• Android Studio. Kotlin. Dynamic loading of data in the RecyclerView list
• Explanation of monads in Kotlin
• Android Authentication with AppAuth Library
• How to Create a Bottom Navigation Like Pinterest
• Introduction to Jetpack DataStore
• Using Hilt to the fullest is our success story!
• Traditional MVVM with Jetpack Compose and StateFlow
• How do I use Factory method pattern in android development
• Android Developer Roadmap for 2022: Part 1
• Animations in Jetpack Compose with examples
• Repeat notifications daily at a specific time in Android
• Your Deep Links May Be Broken: Web Intents and Android 12
• How is Kotlin different?
• Getting started with GraphQL for Android in small steps• Butterfly: adaptive and responsive UI for Android
• Faradle: Wordle on Jetpack Compose
• WindowState: The state of collapsible windows for Jetpack Compose

Development

• Fonts in games: how to make 12 MB out of 191 MB
• Fix performance degradation before it happens
• From idea to game in 24 hours
• How to Become a Game Composer: Finding Yourself, Networking, and Luck
• In-game emoji: how we create animations for Rush Royale
• Myths and legends about testing
• Features of barcode scanning in central Russia
• How I got busted by my cloud spending
• Force Update – a mechanism for forced updating of mobile applications
• Set of rules for communication between developer and QA engineer
• Schematic display of cars on the route
• Psion PDA – what does it look like today?
• How to start learning Android and iOS? Newbie Mistakes in Mobile Development
• Podlodka #252: game theory
• VK launches an internship program
• Programmers and sysadmins are most often dedicated to their profession
• GitHub Actions Tutorial
• Andromeda could be Microsoft’s own OS for the Surface Duo
• Backend support for products that serve millions of users worldwide
• Flutter: running code in the background
• How we launch new product teams
• If you want to scale your application, learn how to use async
• RedBus redesign: UI/UX case
• Interview with a 20-year-old Senior Developer. Joke or new reality?

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• The number of applications used has decreased
• How we increased the retention of the third day by 30% for North American players in World of Tanks Blitz
• How did you use the apps during the New Year holidays?
• Apple Search Ads started supporting product pages
• Apple launches custom promo codes for subscriptions
• The most earning applications of December in the USA
• How to continue growing after a hype using product analytics (download retention) — QuizUp case
• Defeat chaos in product analytics if you haven’t done it before. VSCO photo application case
• Google Play will have a section “Offers”

AI, Devices, IoT

• Phantom operating system from a Russian developer: features and nuances
• Kincony KC868-A4: ultimate guide. Part 1. Overview and hardware
• Vector representation of Prod2Vec products: how we improved matching and got rid of a bunch of embeddings
• $35M in Series B: Censys – Protecting IoT and the Cloud

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