Articles by TutsPlus - Code from June 2017

In this tutorial, I’ll continue from my previous tutorial on Realm Mobile Database for iOS where we learned about Realm Mobile Database, an on-device database alternative to Core Data. Realm has al...

In this tutorial series, you'll see how to get started with creating a blogging app using React. Throughout the course of this tutorial series, you'll be focusing on how to use React for developing th...

Animations that feel fluid and realistic tend to make user interfaces more attractive. No wonder Material Design places so much emphasis on them! If you've ever tried creating such animations, howeve...

There are many instances when providing current temperatures and weather forecasts on a website can be useful. Restaurants, retreat centers, country clubs, and many other businesses and organizations ...

What You'll Be CreatingDo you want to learn the Elixir language? If so, our new course, Get Started With Elixir, is ideal for you.In this course, experienced instructor Markus Mühlberger will help yo...

NativeScript is a framework for building cross-platform native mobile apps using XML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this series, we'll try out some of the cool things you can do with a NativeScript app: geo...

What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial we will take a look at creating a mobile application which displays the RSS content of a website. We will configure the RSS URL and the application will downloa...

 Recently, we looked at list comprehensions in Python. Similar to its sibling the list comprehension, a dictionary comprehension is nothing more than a shorthand way of creating a new dictionary coll...

Not everyone likes subversion. If you use Git to manage WordPress plugin development, keeping your Git repo and the WordPress.org SVN repo in sync is tedious. Luckily, we can use TravisCI deployment p...

Welcome to unlimited stock photos on Envato Elements!If you're already an Elements subscriber, you'll now see that, along with all the graphics, fonts, web templates, 3D models and everythin...

In this post, we'll look at advanced uses of encryption for user data in iOS apps. We'll start with a high-level look at AES encryption, and then go on to look at some examples of how to implement AES...

Elixir is a very young programming language (emerged in 2011), but it is gaining popularity. I was initially interested in this language because when using it you can look at some common tasks program...

In the first part of this Angular tutorial series, you saw how to get started with creating a Grocery List Manager using Angular. You learnt how to create the view for the Grocery component, adding i...

Web applications usually start out simple but can become quite complex, and most of them quickly exceed the responsibility of only responding to HTTP requests.When that happens, one must make a distin...

What Is the Observer Pattern? The Observer Pattern is a software design pattern that establishes a one-to-many dependency between objects. Anytime the state of one of the objects (the "subject" or "o...

Contact forms are a must have for every website. They encourage your site visitors to engage with you while potentially lowering the amount of spam you get. For businesses, this engagement with visito...

PHP is the language of WordPress. If you want to customize WordPress, for example by coding themes or plugins, PHP is the programming language you'll need to learn.In our new Coffee Break Course, Word...

Computer vision is considered an AI-complete problem. In other words, solving it would be equivalent to creating a program that's as smart as humans. Needless to say, such a program is yet to be creat...

Swift 4 has been in the works for the last few months. If you're like me, you might follow Swift Evolution to stay up to date with all the proposals and changes. Even if you do, now is a good time to ...

In the first two parts of this tutorial series, we covered what dynamic page templates were and why they were needed. We also looked at the code required to implement them. In this third and final t...

It is very common to encounter errors during the execution of a program. Two common kinds of errors that you may have to deal with are syntax errors and exceptions. Syntax errors occur when you type t...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroduction In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use a powerful yet elegant on-device database solution for your iOS apps: Realm Mobile Database. An alternative to Apple Cor...

 "List comprehension" is a big name for a really simple concept. In the world of Python, a list comprehension is nothing more than a shorthand way to create a new list. In this short video from my c...

An Angular application is made up of components. In an Angular application, a component consists of an HTML template and a component class. From the official docs:Components are the most basic buildi...

Here’s a situation which may be familiar to you: you’re a developer and you build a prototype to demonstrate something. It works just as you mean it to, but the looks of horror on your users’ fa...

Thankfully, HTML5 has become the standard for multimedia web design. Gone are the days of Flash and Silverlight plugin headaches, as HTML5's support for audio and video page elements has brought a sta...

Do you want to learn more about gamification with Unity? How about mastering Vue.js or Meteor? Our latest batch of eBooks will teach you all you need to know about these topics and more.Our Latest Sel...

Go is a fantastic programming language. It also comes with a comprehensive tool chain. Many developers just use plain text editors with or without plugins to write Go code, but many others prefer to u...

In this series, we're learning how to use SpriteKit to build 2D games for iOS. In this post, we'll learn about two important features of SpriteKit: actions and physics.To follow along with this tutori...

When you're first getting started with mobile development, it can be hard to choose a platform. Even worse, each platform has its own set of languages and tools to choose from. So how can you decide?T...

I've been developing with WordPress for around ten years now and, during that time, have used my fair share of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). There's certainly no shortage of choice these...

What You'll Be CreatingLast time, we looked at countdowns in games, how they are set up, and what elements you can use to make them more engaging. There are much more than will fit in a single article...

In this series of tips, we’ve been taking a closer look at some of the new Android features and tools announced at this year’s Google I/O, that you can get your hands on today.In this post, we’r...

Why would you want to hack your own app? To find the security flaws before someone else does—and before your users' data is compromised. In our new course, How to Hack Your Own App, you'll learn h...

With over one million users worldwide, the ever popular drag and drop page builder, Visual Composer, has inspired a legion of developers to create loads of cool and useful addons and extensions that e...

That was quite the keynote. Don't you think? Nobody knew what to expect, due to the absence of rumors or leaks. But I think I speak for many Apple developers when I say that it was a great keynot...

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'r...

Python provides full-fledged support for implementing your own data structure using classes and custom operators. In this tutorial you will implement a custom pipeline data structure that can perform ...

What You'll Be CreatingWant to know more about Yii? Read Introduction to the Yii Framework and follow our Yii Programming series.WelcomeIn today's tutorial, we'll explain how to install Yii in a lo...

In this series of tips, we’ve been taking a closer look at some of the new Android features and tools announced at this year’s Google I/O.In this post, we’re going to be focusing on Android Wear...

The offering of PHP URL shortener scripts bring as much variety and varying degrees of complexity as any other web development solution. Self-hosted URL shorteners can be set up exclusively for privat...

Any app that saves the user's data has to take care of the security and privacy of that data. As we've seen with recent data breaches, there can be very serious consequences for failing to protect you...

 In JavaScript, special characters like + and -, punctuation and more can be used in different combinations to perform operations. In this video tutorial from my JavaScript Fundamentals course, yo...

Name conflicts happen all the time in real life. For example, every school that I ever went to had at least two students in my class who shared the same first name. If someone came into the class and ...

As usual, this year’s Google I/O saw plenty of Android-related announcements.In this series of quick tips, we’re going to take a closer look at some of the software updates and new releases you ca...