7 Tips for Utilizing Amazon Alexa to Engage with Customers

Jun 20, 2020 | Design and Innovation, Ideas

Amazon first released Alexa virtual assistant and smart speaker Echo in late 2014. An in-home virtual assistant is an impressive tool, but creating a seamless user experience with it can be a challenge. So how do companies overcome this challenge? What engagement can...

React Native: Upgrade Dos and Don’ts

May 1, 2020 | Development, Ideas

While React Native is a great framework for cross platform development, the process to upgrade from one version to another is generally painful.  If you created a new application this time last year, it was most likely running on version 0.56. Today the latest version...

Node.js – Storing data with MongoDB

Apr 15, 2020 | Development, Ideas

The last few weeks we have focused on web service design using Node.js with Express. So far we have covered getting started with express, using EJS to create web pages, and creating a push notification server. Today we will go over how to save data on your node...

Comparing React Native to Axway Titanium

Jun 15, 2017 | Ideas

Here at Shockoe we often use cross-platform tools to build our apps. Using a cross-platform tool allows us to have one code base for apps that run on multiple platforms. There will be some platform specific code, but most things can be shared. Our cross-platform tool...

Network Discovery with Titanium

Dec 22, 2015 | Ideas

Network Discovery with Titanium So you have 2+ devices that need to find each other on a local network. At least one of them is a mobile device running iOS or Android (sorry Windows users!). One device needs to be hosting a server to handle connections. How do they go...