Articles by TutsPlus - Code from December 2017

What You'll Be CreatingThe material design team at Google simply defines the functionality of tabs in Android as follows:Tabs make it easy to explore and switch between different views.In this post yo...

Introduction Beyond enabling iOS developers to easily store data on the cloud, as well as authenticating users through their robust SDKs, Firebase also provides a convenient storage solution for medi...

In this article, we're going to explore the Mail API in the Laravel web framework. Laravel takes advantage of the popular SwiftMailer library, which is easy to use and comes with a variety of email dr...

Whether you’re using Instagram for business or pleasure, it’s a great way to make new friends, customers, or fans. Doing the work of getting your account before as many eyes as possible, however, ...

OverviewReact components encapsulate parts of the UI. Your full React application UI is rendered as a tree of many nested components. Depending on the flow of the applications, individual components n...

What You'll Be CreatingWith the recent enhancements to Android and iOS, it's now easier than ever to begin developing augmented reality applications. In our new course, Get Started With Augmented Real...

IntroductionVue.js components are important to understand as you work with Vue.js. In this tutorial we are going to dig into Vue.js components, understanding the basics and applying them to an applica...

What You'll Be CreatingA good approach to becoming proficient in a new programming language or library is to try and create something useful with it. In my tutorial on simplifying Android development...

HTML5 enables users to have a better and more consistent web experience across several devices. Considering that smart devices of varying screen sizes and resolutions are the number one way that ...

IntroductionJust as authentication is important in APIs, it is also an important feature in certain web applications—those with pages and secrets that should only be accessible to registered and aut...

Machine learning has undoubtedly been one of the hottest topics over the past year, with companies of all kinds trying to make their products more intelligent to improve user experiences and different...

In the first part of the tutorial series, you created the user interface and navigation for the task manager app. In this tutorial, you'll see how to implement the functionality for the Ionic task m...

In this tutorial series, you'll learn how to get started with creating a mobile app using the Ionic framework. Ionic uses Angular for writing the components and creating the mobile app. Throughout t...

In this post we'll take a look at Ionic pages. I'll show you how to edit content inside your app as well as how to create additional app pages and set up navigation.Editing Page ContentIn Getting Star...

What You'll Be CreatingThis is the second part of the series on Introduction to Forms in Angular 4. In the first part, we created a form using the template-driven approach. We used directives such as ...

With machine learning, the possibilities for developers are multiplying fast! Get up to speed with Apple's new machine learning library in our new course, Image Recognition on iOS With Core ML.What Yo...

The material design team at Google defines the functionality of dialogs in Android as follows:Dialogs inform users about a specific task and may contain critical information, require decisions, or in...

In this article, we're going to explore the Queue API in the Laravel web framework. It allows you to defer resource-intensive tasks during script execution to enhance the overall end user experience....

What You'll Be CreatingForms are critical to any modern front-end application, and they're a feature that we use every day, even if don't realize it. Forms are required for securely logging in a user ...

OverviewThis is part five out of five in a tutorial series on testing data-intensive code. In part four, I covered remote data stores, using shared test databases, using production data snapshots, and...

If you have been following this series from the beginning, you should now be very comfortable with shapes, groups, and layers. You should also be able to easily draw some basic and complex shapes on t...

Business apps for Android are a constantly growing market thanks to a community of avid developers and the increasing popularity of mobile devices. It is no surprise, therefore, that business app temp...

In the second tutorial of the series, you learned how to draw some basic shapes like rectangles, circles, and regular polygons using Konva. The third tutorial covered how you can use Konva to draw som...

OverviewThis is part four out of five in a tutorial series on testing data-intensive code with Go. In part three, I covered testing against a local complex data layer that includes a relational DB and...

OverviewThis is part three out of five in a tutorial series on testing data-intensive code with Go. In part two, I covered testing against a real in-memory data layer based on the popular SQLite. In t...

With technological advances, we're at the point where our devices can use their built-in cameras to accurately identify and label images using a pre-trained data set. You can also train your own model...

In the second tutorial of this series, you learned how to draw basic shapes using Konva. You can combine the basic shapes one way or another to create stars, rings, arrows, clocks, or a hut. Konva als...

The serverless computing concept is an up-and-coming execution model that tries to address the needs of modern, cloud-based software. In this video from my course, Introduction to Serverless, I'll�...

As a web developer, you are bound to come across clients who are not very tech savvy. Some clients might want you to create a new website for them, while others might want to only make changes to spec...

The introductory tutorial of the series taught you how to draw your first shape using Konva. It also explained how layers and groups work in Konva. In the rest of the series, we will focus on more spe...

Setting up an online store used to be complicated, but these days it's never been easier, thanks to WordPress and WooCommerce.Our new course, Up and Running With WooCommerce, takes you through the who...

OverviewThis is part two out of five in a tutorial series on testing data-intensive code. In part one, I covered the design of an abstract data layer that enables proper testing, how to handle errors ...

In this final article of the Android Architecture Components series, we’ll explore the Room persistence library, an excellent new resource that makes it a lot easier to work with databases in Andro...

The HTML5 canvas has been supported by all popular browsers for a long time now. You can use it for drawing graphics in a browser with the help of JavaScript. The graphics that can be created on a can...

OverviewMany non-trivial systems are also data-intensive or data-driven. Testing the parts of the systems that are data-intensive is very different than testing code-intensive systems. First, there ma...

Developers are constantly striving to make their apps more advanced, but are they actually usable by everybody? For most apps, the answer is no. In order to reach the largest audience, let's learn abo...

Selling products online has been a game-changer over the past several years. With the reasonable cost of an e-commerce platform, business owners, artists, musicians, and more have started their own on...

IntroductionExpress is a popular Node.js web framework. Amongst its functionality, it provides a wrapper for Routing. The Express Router helps in the creation of route handlers. In this tutorial, you ...

What You'll Be CreatingLaravel is the most popular PHP application framework, and there are countless tutorials, articles, and yes, even videos on how to get started with and learn Laravel. But our ne...

Whenever you design an Android app, you want as many people as possible to download and use that app, but this can only happen if your app is accessible to everyone—including people who access thei...

The CSV format is the most commonly used import and export format for databases and spreadsheets. This tutorial will give a detailed introduction to CSV’s and the modules and classes available for r...

In this article, we’ll go through one of the exciting features of the Laravel web framework—task scheduling. Throughout the course of this article, we’ll look at how Laravel allows you to manage...

Accessibility matters because we, the people, want to use the web. Working towards an inclusive web helps us achieve that goal.In this article I’ll share my thoughts on why accessibility is importan...

Developers are constantly striving to make their apps more advanced, but are they actually usable by everybody? For most apps, the answer is no. In order to reach the largest audience, let's learn abo...

Whenever you design an Android app, you want as many people as possible to download and use that app, but this can only happen if your app is accessible to everyone—including people who access their...

Generators make it easy to create iterations in Python and in return write less code. This tutorial will introduce you to Python generators, their benefits, and how they work.BasicsA generator is a fu...

What You'll Be CreatingDeveloping a beautiful user interface for Android apps can be a time-consuming endeavour. Here are some of the steps we typically go through to design an app: We begin to brain...

If you are familiar with object-oriented programming, you are most likely familiar with subclassing and inheritance. However, inheritance has been getting a bad rap. I believe that is because some dev...

What You'll Be CreatingiOS 11 has elevated iOS, in particular for the iPad, into a true multi-tasking platform, thanks to Drag and Drop. This promises to blur the boundaries between apps, allowing co...

In one of my previous articles I wrote about Erlang Term Storage tables (or simply ETS), which allow tuples of arbitrary data to be stored in memory. We also discussed disk-based ETS (DETS), which pro...

Do you have ten minutes to spare? Do you want to understand how to use WordPress hooks? If so, our new Coffee Break Course, WordPress Coding Basics: Adding Hooks to Your Themes, is ideal for you. In ...