Category: ios
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LetsTuneup: A music chart with Arjit Singh in the lead
LetsTuneup has grown tremendously, and with it, we’ve introduced new features too. We identified that a few of our users couldn’t use the app to it’s full extent because they didn’t have music on their devices. We’ve solved that. Users can now pick their favourite artists, powered by a location aware scoring algorithm, which recommends…
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Why Matchbox, and how it connects people through music
There’s no doubt that music defines us. It influences our moods, for example, making us happy by releasing a chemical named dopamine. It can affect what we wear, what we eat, and perhaps even who we enjoy being together with. It affects our thought process too (it’s well known that ambient noise can improve productivity). In…
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Sending notifications via Apple’s new HTTP/2 API (using Jetty 9.3.6)
HTTP/2 is still very much new to Java, and as such, there are just two libraries who support it – Jetty (from 9.3), and Netty (in alpha). If you’re going the Jetty way (as I have), you’ll need to add their ALPN library to your boot classpath. Note: Jetty 9.3.x requires the use of Java…
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Discover – my second iOS app
iTunes Genius is a great feature. However, it lacks music discovery outside your own music library. Sure, you can always do a Google search for similar tunes, but let’s face it – who has time to do this anymore? There weren’t any great music discovery apps on the App Store either. All of them either…