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...
Have you ever had multiple emulators or physical devices or a combination of the two attached at once? It's frustrating to shut off or unplug your devices in order to single out the one that needs to be targeted. Look no further, adb includes a command line switch to...
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...
Debugging is one of the most frustrating aspects of software development of any kind - it is also one of the most essential. Finding a malfunction can be time-consuming; therefore, it is important to have effective tools that can decrease your debugging time. For...
A Grid View is pretty common in many applications nowadays, displaying images or a variety of image and text content to the user in repeated pattern cells in a vertical and horizontal layout. This component is highly favored over List Views and Table Views when...
I recently took the time to checkout out Appcelerator's Labs page where they allow users try out pre-release software. There are some interesting projects here, but I spent most of my time experimenting with Hyperloop, which could be the best new feature in Titanium....
Event listeners. Callback functions. Asynchronous programming? These words were foreign to me when I first started working at Shockoe LLC the first week of October 2015. But somehow, I needed to use these things to create a mobile...
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...
Building an app with Titanium gives you access to all of the speed of a native framework while giving you the flexibility that you know and love from Javascript, but exposes you to all manner of potential memory issues that traditional native developers are not...
This document is intended for the average Titanium Developer to enable push notifications. It is assumed that the reader already has a basic knowledge of Titanium and the APIs. Today we will talk about Part 2 of 3 of Push Notifications, which begins with Google App...
Underscore.js (_.js for short) is a phenomenal javascript library that most web and Titanium developers are likely familiar with at this point. What you may not know is that _.js is bundled with Alloy, letting you use the awesome collection of commonly used functions...
I recently had the opportunity to switch a client app over to making use of the (relatively) new Titanium ListView. The ListView is a high-performance UI element designed to display templated sets of data in an ordered fashion, making use of some arcane optimizations...
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