[ Developer] Just last week, Google revealed what it felt were the very best games available for Android devices. While games may make up a sizable part of Android’s catalog of apps, they’re on no account the best apps available. For your entire other apps, Google has released a listing of what it considers to be the foremost beautifully designed Android apps. So, what does Google search for when deciding which apps are one of the most beautiful? Here’s the factors: Attention to detail makes an app truly beautiful: transitions are fast and clear, and layout and typography are crisp and meaningful. During this collection, we highlight several beautiful apps with masterfully crafted design details. Without further ado, here’s the complete list of apps and their descriptions: Timely – Timely’s smooth and playful screen transitions prove that setting alarms can be incredibly fun. Circa – Circa’s design boasts elegant typography and an innovative reading interface. Etsy – Explore wonderful hand-crafted goods with... Read More »

[ Developer] When writing code in Visual Studio, you can find it’s essential to pull code samples from StackOverflow or MSDN. You may normally just ought to copy and paste the code over after which make some modifications so it fits in together with your previously written code. Now Microsoft is making it easier to do through Bing. The Bing team announced today that it has worked with the Visual Studio and Microsoft Research teams to develop what it calls the Bing Code Search Visual Studio extension. As its name implies, it’s a brand new extension that uses Bing to locate “relevant code samples in Visual Studio giving you the power to check and add that code within the code editor.” The Bing team notes that searches are context sensitive so you’ll get samples that use an analogous variable names on your own code. Bing says Code Search pulls from MSDN, StackOverflow, Donnetperls and CSharp411. Here’s the way it works: Bing uses signals and metadata... Read More »

[ Developer] In May of last year, Facebook entered the mobile scene in an enormous way with App Center. It was a centralized location where mobile users could find their technique to mobile apps from Facebook. Since its introduction, Facebook has touted some big numbers from App Center and is now aiming to get even bigger numbers with a big update. Facebook announced today that developers can now embed videos on their App Center pages. The social network says that video might help developers better illustrate their game to prospective players. In spite of everything, screenshots can only tell a player loads. With video, developers may give a better have a look at how their game works and the way it’s played. So, how does this App Center Video thing work? Simple – you simply submit your videos to the Facebook App Dashboard under the App Details tab. Almost like with images, Facebook must approve every video submitted. Once approved, it can... Read More »

[ Developer] Google released Cloud SQL in limited preview back in 2011, and has only at present launched general availability. It was first conceived of as an add-directly to Google App Engine, but Google has since launched Compute Engine, and it really works as a “database backbone” for apps running on either. With general availability, Cloud SQL gets encryption of purchaser data, a 99.95% uptime SLA, and support for databases as much as 500GB in size. Cloud SQL instances can store that quantity, with the smallest D0 instance costing $0.025 per hour up, and at the other end of the spectrum, D32 with 16GB of RAM costing $46.84 per day. “Your data is replicated multiple times in multiple zones and automatically backed up, all included within the price of the service,” says Google Cloud product manager Joe Faith. “And you just pay for the storage which you actually use, so that you don’t ought to reserve this storage beforehand.” “Replicated storage means we will be... Read More »

[ Developer] Have you developed a game for the Amazon Appstore? Perhaps your still at the fence? In that case, Amazon has a brand new infographic that are supposed to show you how to understand why it thinks you ought to be developing for its platform. In a brand new infographic released today called “Amazon Appstore’s Developer Parlor,” the retailer compares its digital app platform to a pizza parlor. Why? Well, it reasons that the method of creating a pizza from scratch is the same to developing an app. Wait, what? In Amazon’s eyes, its AWS services are just like the pizza crust. It’s the inspiration on your app and the very first thing any developer must establish before engaged on the app proper. It then later compares the sauce and toppings to your complete tools available to developers to assist make their apps much more appealing, like GameCircle, In-App Purchasing and Amazon’s Free App of the Day promotion. Finally, it compares... Read More »