5 best App2Top materials for the week (05/18/2015 - 05/24/2015)

The appearance of a single SDK catalog for mobile game developers; the answer to the question of why it was easier to develop games at the beginning of the noughties; the top advertising networks in terms of the retention level of users who came from them; this and not only – in our digest of the best materials for the past week.

SOOMLA has launched an SDK directory for mobile game developers

Developers of open source SOOMLA development tools have created Gamegear.io – a single catalog of SDK packages that can be useful in the development of mobile games.

Successful startup: Is there life after death? (part one) 

Why it was easier to launch your own startup ten years ago, – App2Top.ru Nesvit Bogdan, the operating director of Crystal Clear Soft, told in the framework of the first article from the series “Successful startup: is there life after death?”.

Games will earn $74.2 billion in 2015

The global gaming market will earn $5.4 billion more this year than in 2014, according to analysts at Superdata.

Pollen: indie teams have a bright future in the mobile market

The mobile app market is waiting for a “perfect storm” that will potentially change the balance of power: independent teams will have more chances to earn, and large companies will stop taking “all the cream”, Pollen analysts say.

AppsFlyer compared advertising networks on the retention of their users

The largest retention of the first day is among users whose source was the advertising solutions Vungle and AdColony,” AppsFlyer said in its research.