How projects get to the App Store showcase, why iPhone development is not cheap and not fast, why updates are needed and much more is told by one of the authors of the SQUIDS role–playing game.

About a month ago, the seventh conference of developers and publishers of flash, social and mobile games Flash GAMM Kyiv 2011 was held in Kiev. We offer a video from the presentation of Maxim Grynev aka Mokus, the creator of the game Contre Jour, which has collected many international awards.

Users of Windows tablets will be able to run applications written for Android.

The revenues of mobile app developers are three times higher than the revenue from the total sales of these applications. We are talking about the income of companies that create custom applications. Salaries differ significantly from region to region, although in Russia and India they are about the same level.

Razer, a company engaged in the creation of professional gaming equipment, announced its own tablet: its main feature is that it is designed for modern PC games. Other tablet manufacturers are entering a price war with the Kindle Fire, and Apple’s new tablet may be called the iPad 2S.

An hour and a half a day is about how much an American user spends on working with mobile applications. And half of this time falls on games.

American analytical companies have shared information about some of the trends of last fall in the mobile systems market. Among them: the growth of the share of the iOS platform, the victory of smartphones over conventional mobile phones, as well as something about the high popularity of the iPhone.  

In 2011, about 73 million tablets were shipped. This is 256% more than in 2010. Analysts are confident that by 2017, tablets will almost catch up with laptops in terms of supplies.

A three-dimensional role-playing action for iOS brought $ 30 million to its creators in a year of sales.

In a year and a half, the number of downloads of applications for the Apple tablet has reached three billion. Android indicators are lagging far behind, but analysts are confident that the situation will radically change in the future.

During the last week of 2011, iOS and Android users made a record number of downloads.

According to the results of last December, Apple products accounted for more than 52.1% of mobile traffic. Android gadgets have only 16.2%.

There are a little less than two days left before the onset of 2012. In the new year there will be new games, new tops, new hits, so it seems to us that now is the time to get acquainted with the best games of the year 2011 according to our portal.

The release of the iPhone 4S significantly affected the number of downloads of free software from the App Store.

There is a version that the next iPad will be shown at the annual iWorld festival on January 26, 2012.

On one day alone – December 25, 2011 – 6.8 million smartphones were activated, while half of the activations were on Android. Microsoft Corporation, in turn, boasted of the number of applications in the Windows Phone Market.

With the introduction of Android 4.0 and Windows 8 on the market, tablets will become the dominant devices in the market of devices with touch screens.

Inside Mobile Apps bloggers tell how big companies manage to stay in the top in the last weeks of the year.

Google is planning to release its tablet. This release may negatively affect sales of other Android-based tablets.