This holiday season the Shockoe team has been visited by the ghosts of tech past, present and future. While we were a little concerned at first about ghosts socially distancing in the office, once they had a chance to impart their wisdom and remind us where tech has...
WWDC, Apple’s worldwide developer conference, took place this year despite current events impacting the world. The event highlights almost all of the new software, hardware, and tools Apple users can look forward to in the upcoming year. Typically this conference is...
At Shockoe we're used to integrating our clients' complicated backend systems into our apps, and this often includes push notifications. However, to get that initial proof that our app is playing nicely with GCM and APNS we'll sometimes rig up a sandbox server of our...
Intro to ARKit ARKit is a framework provided by the iOS SDK (11+) that gives developers the opportunity to create augmented reality experiences in a fraction of the time it would take to create them completely from scratch. It uses the device’s camera and...
After months of development, your app finally makes it onto the app store. However, a few weeks later, you take a look at the app’s analytics to find an unexpectedly high number of total uninstalls. Why are users deleting your app and what can you do to improve...
Earlier this week, I was debugging and I was reminded of the sheer power of the XCode developer tools, even in the context of a not-quite-native application like a titanium application. The Problem Andrew was working on an application that will load in a large number...
The recent launch of Apple’s new iOS7 has many talking about how the new version of the operating system was the final death knell of Apple’s skeuomorphic roots, but beyond the style and sleekness of the upgrade, the enterprise should see the feature dense iOS7 as a...
With the release of Apple's iOS 6 the device's maps have changed from the usage of Google maps to using Apple's own mapping service. Fortunately, very little has changed when working with map annotations across iOS versions 5 and 6. Today we are taking a closer look...
Overnight, iPhone devotees lined up all across the country to get their hands on the new iPhone 5 - a device being regarded as revolutionary by many due to the iOS upgrade as well as the new aspect ratio of the phone. The smart phone community is expecting major...
We've got some hot news: our buddies at Appcelerator won the GSMA Global Mobile 2012 Best Cloud-Based Tech Award in Barcelona last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The judge's comment on the award announcement: "Quintessential cloud, write once, deploy...
No industry has more hype attached to it than tech. Sure, the entertainment industry is known as hype-a-palooza, but they rely on technology to both create and hype their products, so we'll stick with tech as the most hyped vertical on the planet. How does someone...
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