Articles by TutsPlus - Code from June 2016

Any app that you develop will have to include some sort of local resources and values, such as strings, image assets (even if it's just the app icon) and colors. In this tutorial, you learn about reso...

Laravel is a PHP framework for modern web apps. Recently upgraded to version 5, Laravel is a mature system that continues to win support due to its elegance and stability. Laravel ships with built-in ...

A few years ago, I wrote about the process of internationalizing WordPress-based projects. Though I think there are some times when tutorials don't necessarily need updating, refreshing, or revisiting...

Template files generate the web pages on your WordPress site. Different kinds of pages can have different templates. For example, a page for viewing a single post usually has a different template than...

What You'll Be CreatingJSX is similar to a mix of XML and HTML. You use JSX within React code to easily create components for your apps. JSX transforms into JavaScript when React compiles the code. T...

Location aware resources allow your application to interact with the physical world and they are ideal for increasing user engagement. Although many mobile apps use them, the topic of this tutorial ...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroductionThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reali...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroductionSince their introduction in Xcode 6 alongside Swift, to their current iteration in Xcode 7.3.1, playgrounds have come a long way. With new features and better stabi...

In order to improve the experience of Android developers, Google updates Android Studio very frequently. Usually, these are no more than minor enhancements and bug fixes. However, in early April 2016,...

What You'll Be CreatingMVC is a very popular paradigm in web development and has been around for quite some time. The React framework is an powerful part of that Model-View-Controller trinity, because...

In this article, we explore several game engines and frameworks, highlighting some of the key advantages each of them offers. After reading this article, you will have several options to choose from t...

Overview Many of us work on multiple Python projects at the same time. Multiple projects may depend on different versions of the same library. This is a problem. Even if you work with a single project...

The process of software development is complicated. When we face problems, we usually try to tackle the complexity by turning it into more understandable and manageable pieces.Domain-Driven Design is ...

A career within digital industries often leads to stress: tight deadlines, troublesome communication with clients, and unapproved work are all occurrences which you’ll encounter at some point.For pe...

ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building web APIs on top of the .NET Framework which makes use of HTTP. As almost any platform that you can think of has an HTTP library, HTTP services can be consum...

If you're just joining the series, we've been discussing the topic of code smells, how to refactor them, and tools that are available to help us automate some of the monotony that comes with doing so,...

In the first part of this three-part tutorial series, we saw how to lay out the template structure in a Flask-based application using Jinja2. We also saw how blocks can be used to leverage the inhe...

You'll need to create custom APIs for unique requirements in your project development at some point in time, and that's what we'll cover throughout the course of this tutorial. In our custom API modul...

Laravel is a PHP framework for modern web apps. Recently upgraded to version 5, Laravel is a mature system that continues to win support due to its elegance and stability. Laravel ships with built-in ...

Although the Developer Preview for Android N had been available for a little while before Google I/O for select devices, Google announced an official beta release for users with those devices during t...

In my previous tutorials, I demonstrated how to prototype Internet of Things devices, and also created data visualizations from hardware sensors, using PubNub’s Data Stream Network. In this tutor...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this set of two tutorials, we're creating a slider to display posts from a custom post type in such a way as to create a conversation effect between two speakers in an image....

Earlier this week, Apple officially kicked off their annual WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) event in San Francisco. As always, the event began with a keynote during which Apple announced update...

In my previous tutorial, I guided you through the steps of getting started with creating and maintaining a production-safe WordPress site using a "Dev-Test-Live" three-environment setup on Pantheon. I...

In the first two parts of this series, I showed you how to enable image uploading in Rails using CarrierWave. In this part, you will see how to do so using Paperclip.Paperclip is a Ruby gem provided ...

As time goes on in the world of development targeting the Apple platform, we continue to find new and exciting ways to engage consumers. The newest Apple platform allows us to engage our audience whil...

In the first tutorial of this series, we explored the basics of regular expressions, including the syntax to write regular expressions. In this tutorial, we apply what we have learned so far to levera...

Adapter views are so ubiquitous that you'd have a hard time finding a popular Android app that doesn't use them. The name might sound unfamiliar, but if you think you've never seen an adapter view, ...

At this week's E3 expo, the latest mobile games are sure to create a buzz. But what if you want to get started in this growing field yourself? How do you learn how to develop games for Android or iOS?...

Sliders can be controversial—we've all had clients who've insisted on them regardless of whether they enhance the site. But they do have their place. They can help to highlight key content, display ...

In the first article of this series, we defined code smells and looked at a few examples of what they are and how we may refactor them so the quality of the code is improved. Recall:[A] code smell, al...

In this last piece, we are going to look a bit deeper into queries and play with a few more advanced scenarios. We will cover relationships of Active Record models a bit more in this article, but I'll...

Jinja2 is a template engine written in pure Python. It provides a Django-inspired non-XML syntax but supports inline expressions and an optional sandboxed environment. It is small but fast, apart f...

1. IntroductionSimply put, regular expressions (regexes or regexps for short) are a way of specifying string patterns. You are undoubtedly familiar with the search and replace function in your favori...

Are you a hybrid app developer wanting to include face detection into your app, but you don't have any idea where to start? As a start, you could read An Introduction to Face Detection on Android, ...

In this tutorial you'll learn how to handle error conditions in Python from a whole system point of view. Error handling is a critical aspect of design, and it crosses from the lowest levels (sometime...

Before going ahead and describing how we can use Python to create a universally unique identifier (UUID), one might ask, what is the UUID anyway? So, let's start by defining what we mean by a UUID and...

In a previous tutorial, I discussed how we can read, open, close, and write to files. In this tutorial, I will go further and discuss different operations we can perform on files and directories (fold...

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The last few months have been an exciting time for Android Studio. First came version 2.1 with support for Android N. Then Google I/O brought us a preview of the next major release in the form of Andr...

Oftentimes, the way in which we write code depends on how we got started with programming.For example, if someone has a formal education in computing, they are likely to know a variety of principles t...

In this series, we are exploring how to integrate the UberGallery script with OpenCart. To achieve that, we are building a module in OpenCart, so we could do the things natively. In the first part of ...

In the previous tutorial, you learned how to define common constraints in the data model. In this tutorial, I show you how you can define more advanced constraints in code. 1. Project SetupDownload th...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to a special episode of our Building Your Startup series sponsored by Mailgun. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality usi...

IntroductionOn iOS, users normally interact with your apps via the device's touch screen. On tvOS, however, user interaction is handled by moving the current focus between views on the screen.Luckily...

In this second article, we’ll dive a little deeper into Active Record queries in Rails. In case you are still new to SQL, I’ll add examples that are simple enough that you can tag along and pick u...

If you're familiar with the PHP community, then you're likely familiar with a number of the different applications and frameworks that are currently popular in the development space today. One of the...

In a 1911 newspaper article discussing journalism and publicity, and quoting the newspaper editor Tess Flanders, the following expression appeared: Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.A simila...

An Android application that is composed of several, simple activities tends to offer a much better user experience than one that has crammed all of its functionality into one, large and complex activ...

There are a lot of reasons to enjoy following open-source software, one of which is the ability to learn from the code that others have built. Other examples include: following along with bug tickets...

UberGallery is a simple PHP script that creates a nice web image gallery by generating thumbnails of the original images on the fly. You just need to upload images to a specific directory, and they’...

In our previous tutorial, we used the History Web API within a static site to serve smooth page transitions. In this tutorial we’re going to take things to the next level, by applying what we lea...