Articles by TutsPlus - Code from May 2017

In today's tutorial, we'll learn about how to ensure high-quality Android code in our projects using some static code analysis tools for Java. We'll look at Checkstyle, FindBugs, PMD, and Android Stud...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you already know HTML and CSS, you'll find it easy to learn Vue.js. This front-end JavaScript framework is very versatile, so it's great for small and large-scale web apps al...

In this tutorial, you're going to learn about Ionic Push, an Ionic service which makes it easy to send push notifications to your users.Ionic Push allows you to send push notifications to the users of...

What You'll Be CreatingThis 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 reality using ...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the Yii2 Framework for PHP. You may also be interested in my Introduction to the Yii Framework, which re...

An application that truly understands a natural language is something sci-fi enthusiasts, programmers, and AI researchers have dreamed about for decades. Today, thanks to large advances in machine lea...

In this tutorial I will show you how easy it is to extend the HTML language with custom tags. The custom tags can be used to implement various behaviors, so they are a very convenient way to write les...

 UI-Router is a flexible and powerful alternative for AngularJS routing. UI-Router goes beyond the Angular team's own ngRoute module by building in support for nested routes and for events triggered ...

In part 1 of this tutorial series I introduced the basic concept of dynamic page templates and created a standard page template as a foundation for future work. A WordPress child theme based on the Tw...

Exception handling is a great practice for any software development methodology. Whether it's for test-based development, agile sprints, or a hacking session with just a good old todo list, we all ca...

WordPress page templates are a great way to completely alter how particular web pages are displayed. You can use them to add a vast range of functionality to your site.They do, however, have one limi...

Elixir is a meta-programming language based on Erlang and is available on all major operating systems. In this guide we will cover how to get Elixir installed, use the interactive console, and expand ...

This tutorial shows how we can use different aspects of Python (i.e. dictionaries, lists, and regular expressions) together to solve different issues. It also shows how we can use Python to link the r...

In this series, we're learning how to use SpriteKit to build 2D games for iOS. In this post, we'll continue our exploration of SpriteKit nodes, and learn about a special kind of node called a "sprite"...

One of Ionic's strengths is in the services that it offers on top of the framework. This includes services for authenticating users of your app, push notifications, and analytics. In this series, we'l...

What You'll Be CreatingMailChimp makes it easy to send email to users of your WordPress site. And our new Coffee Break Course, Add MailChimp Signup to Your WordPress Site, shows you how to get set up ...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to the Building Your Startup With PHP series, which is guiding readers through the launch of an actual startup, Meeting Planner. Each episode details different codin...

This is the first of three articles on securing user data at rest. In this post, we'll start off with the basics of protecting data on iOS so you can learn the current best practices for storing data ...

Auto form fill, often shortened to just autofill, is a feature browsers have supported for years now. Most of us use it all the time. I, for one, find it indispensable during tasks such as filling ou...

 In my recent course Go Further With Swift, I showed you how to code a functional iOS weather app with live weather data, custom UI components, and some slick animations to bring everything to life.I...

What You'll Be CreatingIn an earlier tutorial we covered how to draw a pie chart or doughnut chart using HTML5 canvas. In this tutorial I will show you how to use JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas as a ...

Enumerations are a common design pattern in many programming languages. While you may be familiar with enumerations in C and Objective-C, Swift's implementation of enumerations is significantly more p...

What You'll Be CreatingNo matter what your level of skill, studying design patterns can make your code better. They are solutions to problems that every developer faces with just about every applicati...

WP-CLI has been around for quite some time now (circa 2011) and has steadily gained momentum in the WordPress developer community. But what is it exactly, and how can you use it in your WordPress work...

SpriteKit is Apple's 2D game engine—a rendering engine built on top of OpenGL. It was introduced with iOS 7, and each subsequent release has brought great additions to the framework. With the use of...

The first half of this tutorial explains different ways you can create a zip file using built-in CodeIgniter APIs. We’ll see how to create and save zip files on the server and how you can make them...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the Yii2 Framework for PHP. You may also be interested in my Introduction to the Yii Framework, which re...

As a CodeIgniter developer, it's really important for you to understand how to work with the core session library. Of course, you could always use the default $_SESSION syntax, but it's always recomm...

Accordions and tabs are great ways to communicate text-heavy information in an elegant and condensed fashion while saving valuable space on your WordPress site and reducing information overload.Accord...

Vue is a popular JavaScript framework for web apps with easy binding between data in memory and the user interface. Now Weex allows us to code native mobile apps using the Vue framework!Why do we use...

 Web developers have had to overcome a lot of obstacles. Probably the biggest hurdle that we've faced is the browser itself. Not only have we had to work around the incompatibilities of various brows...

WordPress performance requirements can vary amongst projects, but one thing certainly remains the same throughout—it must be fast. Another requirement that goes without saying—it must be economi...

With the recent change of YouTube's policy of requiring creators to reach 10,000 views before earning advertising revenue, we see the sun setting on the Golden Age of YouTube. Now more than ever, ther...

Testing is a crucial part of Android development, allowing you to iron out all the bugs, errors and performance problems that may be lurking in your app, before you unleash it on the general public.Ev...

Building for the web is just about as much fun as anyone can have, especially when you’re working with an API to dynamically pull in data. Some might call this building “web apps”, others may�...

In the previous lesson of Swift From Scratch, we created a functional to-do application. The data model could use some love, though. In this final lesson, we're going to refactor the data model by imp...

Ready to create an Android app? Not so fast. Before you even start building your app, there are a lot of questions to answer. Who is it for? What will the revenue model be? Do other apps exist that al...

When used properly, animations can make a web application fun to use. Modern browsers are capable of animating different elements on a webpage by using just CSS. If you are using AngularJS in one of ...

 Writing a RESTful API for Node and Express is time consuming. You have to design and code each model, with security, parameters, REST endpoints, and even the HTTP status codes. LoopBack, however, ta...

Almost every website uses forms to perform different tasks like signing up users or obtaining their contact information. It is very important to make sure that a user who is filling out the form is at...

In this tutorial we’re going to step through the ins and outs of generating valid AMP versions of your WordPress site’s posts. We’ll be doing this by using the AMP plugin created by Automattic. ...

What You'll Be CreatingGoogle has launched the first developer preview of the next Android version, currently code-named Android O (Oreo maybe?). Some exciting features were released, and one of the...

Natural language processing (NLP) is the automatic or semi-automatic processing of human language. NLP is closely related to linguistics and has links to research in cognitive science, psychology, phy...

In the previous lesson, we added the ability to create to-do items. While this addition has made the application a bit more useful, it would also be convenient to add the ability to mark items as don...

Offering a powerful theme options page can be a great selling point for your theme, but creating one is not as straightforward as you may think.In our new course, Guide to Creating a WordPress Theme O...

There are several reasons PHP calendar, booking and events scripts may be an indispensable addition to your website. If, for example, you’re a service provider, then it makes sense to have an appoin...

What You'll Be CreatingThis 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 reality using ...