Not all graphic designers are programmers and, unfortunately, not everyone reads the official documentation on UI design. It is for such that a GitHub employee posted a memo on the design of Android applications.

Today, the first smartphones based on Firefox OS have appeared on sale. The budget models Keon and Peak are designed for programmers developing web applications for the open OS from Mozilla. 

Chartboost advertising platform announced the opening of a new office in Amsterdam to support its European clients. 

The third part of Cut the Rope topped the charts of paid App Store apps in several countries at once, including the USA and Russia, Vedomosti reports. 

The mobile advertising market totaled $4.1 billion in 2012. This year, analysts promise that the market volume will grow to $ 7.3 billion. And most of it will be on iOS. Why?

Last Friday, developers discovered the ability to respond to user comments on Google Play. 

Last week, an article by Cassie Gotto appeared on the pages of Venture Beat, “Have achievements and trophies changed the way we play games?“, which criticizes the widespread distribution of awards in modern games. 

“Live events are an integral part of the entertainment service,” Chris Plummer, CEO of DeNA’s American division, said in an interview with Inside Mobile Apps. 

How to make a successful children’s game, how much mobile games earn in Russia, how many times Google Play revenue has grown over the last quarter, as well as much more in our weekly digest.

While Facebook Home firmware for Android was getting all the attention of the press, Zuckerberg’s forge was preparing the release of the Facebook SDK 3.5 for iOS. It promises improved integration of the Open Graph protocol.

According to App Annie’s calculations, in the first quarter of 2013, Google Play revenue increased by 90%, while the number of downloads of Google Play and the App Store were almost equal: Google Play reached 90% of the App Store level.

Amazon recently announced that it is going to open its own store of applications in 200 new countries. One of them will be Russia. In connection with this announcement, we talked about the fate of Amazon with Opera.

The average American gamer spends $0.92 per month on mobile games, according to Interpret. According to the company, this is very little. If developers want to earn money, they need to switch to other platforms. Is it so?  

The authors of Angry Birds hired Jamie Laes, a former vice president of EA Playfish, as vice president of games. His predecessor, in turn, announced that he was leaving the company. 

Matt Tubergen, Vice President of Taptica, tells how to work with analytics on the pages of Pocket Gamer. We offer a translation of his second article, “Fundamentals of Post-Installation Analytics“, dedicated to events and their parameters. 

We have already written about the Leviathan: Warships turn-based strategy and, in fact, we did not plan to write more at least until the release of the project. But Paradox Interactive surprised us with an unexpected approach to advertising. 

Monthly revenue from iPad games in Russia is more than in Japan, Korea and most European countries, Newzoo and Distimo report in their joint report.

On June 27-28, 2013, professionals from all over the world will gather in St. Petersburg at the largest conference in Europe on the promotion and development of mobile games. More than 800 people from leading companies are expected, including Supercell, Rovio, Wooga, Chillingo, Kabam, PlayFirst, Facebook