The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 256 (June 3—12)

This time, it turned out to be a rather short release with the epic Tower Defense, animated transitions, the Snapchat developer platform, sudden psychology in IT from the creator of Kotlin, and much more.

Creating a Tower Defense Game in Unity

Tower defense games are becoming increasingly popular, and this is not surprising - not much can be compared with the pleasure of observing your own lines of defense, destroying evil enemies! In this two-part tutorial, we will create a tower defense game on the Unity engine!

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iOS

• Apple released MapKit JS beta for the web
• Apple banned mining of cryptocurrency in iOS
• HealthKit and Apple Watch - data and authorization
• Create a UITabBarController framework
• Xcode: improve Assistant Editor
• We train the classifier of texts with Create ML and the Natural Language Framework
• SwiftEntryKit: Popups, Banners and Dialogs
• MessengerKit: UI-framework for messages
• IAPKit: In-App Purchase Management Framework

Android

• (+5) From sketch to Google Play or how I made my first android application
• Google gave you the option of a partial refund.
• Activity and its life cycle
• Stylization of international texts in Android
• 14 popular applications that have switched to Kotlin
• Create a calendar of events with a material design.
• Smart Android Development Tips
• Android MVI: Kotlin Android MVI Template
• Kotlin 1.2.50 released

Development

• (+37) Unity3D ECS and Job System
• (+17) Animated transitions in mobile applications
• (+11) One, Two, Three! Chat bot from Google Tables on the example of PvP-game for Alice
• Developer Diaries: Babycare №8
• Google launched App Maker Application Designer for G Suite
• Snapchat launched a platform for developers
• Podlodka # 63: Psychology and IT
• Facebook laid out its debugger Sonar in open source
• The best words create the best products.
• Application with tasks on Flutter
• 18 tips for creating a successful mobile application
• Serverless mobile app with React Native and AWS
• What is splashscreen and why is it important
• WWDC 2018: Creating Flowing Interfaces
• 15 slider libraries and controls [Java, Swift, Kotlin]

Analytics, marketing and monetization

• (+16) Running mobile retargeting with Adjust: settings, reports and links
• “Mobile Growth Guide 2018” by Branch
• Mobile growth technologies: 50+ tools for mobile marketers
• Difference promotion on the App Store and Google Play: the Diveo Media experience
• How to turn user research into smart solutions

AI, Devices, IoT

• (+109) Course on Deep Learning on fingers
• (+56) Kaggle: Amazon from Space - tricks and hacks when training neural networks
• (+49) Full cycle development of IoT pool heater control device on ESP8266 in Arduino environment
• (+24) Prediction of the results of the 2018 World Cup football using the random forests algorithm
• AI Uber will begin to identify drunk passengers

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