Mobile Development Blog

Morning coffee is a collection of interesting links I happened to discover today

• One year after the acquisition: was it all worth it? – blog post of the CEO of the FutureTap, German iPhone developer, who purchased a popular Where To application from Tap Tap Tap and now reflects their sales stats.
• Play iPhone Movies in Portrait Mode with MPMoviePlayerController using Public API’s – an article about clever hack for playing video in portrait mode without relying on private API, which is a big no-no nowdays.
• AdMob posted an update on their stats that shows a tremendous increase (2.5x times in last 3 months) in ad display requests coming from the Android-based devices.

• NimbleBit posted their sales numbers for few of their games.  While it looks like they have only one “real” hit, which brought them almost $300K with the rest of their games bringing way less, I am still amazed that many of their games took them very small amount of time to develop. Usually it’s about 1 man-month with extreme case of less than a week. Very inspiring!
• Google released their new project – Google Collections Library, which includes a lot of innovations in Java collection libraries. It’s not strictly mobile, but I believe that any Java programmer should look into it, since collections are foundation of pretty much any application.