Introduction In this tutorial, the fourth installment of the SpriteKit From Scratch series, we look at the various visual and audio features SpriteKit provides to add some more detail and variety to your games. This includes particle systems, filters, lighting, and audio. To follow along with me, you can either use the project you created in… Continue reading SpriteKit From Scratch: Visual and Audio Effects
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Adding Custom Hooks in WordPress: Custom Filters
In this two-part series, we’re taking a look at the WordPress hook system. Specifically, we’re taking a close look at both actions and filters and the role they play in WordPress development. Though they are both defined as hooks, each plays a specific role in WordPress development. And if you’re looking to become a more… Continue reading Adding Custom Hooks in WordPress: Custom Filters
How to Build a Pebble Application
What You’ll Be Creating The Pebble smartwatch has been around since its very successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and is a popular choice amongst smartwatch users. This is due to its excellent battery life, low price, various models to choose from, and compatibility with both iOS and Android. Pebble has had a developer SDK since day one, encouraging developers… Continue reading How to Build a Pebble Application
Adding Custom Hooks in WordPress: Custom Actions
One of the cornerstones of building custom solutions in WordPress is having an understanding of hooks. In and of themselves, they aren’t terribly difficult to understand, and we’ll be covering a short primer on them in this tutorial. But if you’re looking to get into more advanced WordPress development, it’s worth knowing how to implement… Continue reading Adding Custom Hooks in WordPress: Custom Actions
20 Free Mobile UI Kits for iOS & Android
If you have already designed a mobile app from scratch then you will no certainly know that creating the UI from can be a fun, but can also at times be an arduous and time-consuming task. To help take away some of the workload from you, and to help you get started on your next… Continue reading 20 Free Mobile UI Kits for iOS & Android
Salient – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – 4363266
Extended Feature List Ultra Responsive Design Retina Ready Design Exclusive Nectar Slider AJAX Page Transitions (optional) AJAX Search (optional) Multi Layer Mouse Based Parallax Infinite Scroll option for Blog & Portfolio Multiple Single Post Layouts Classic Look Modern Look Graphically Intuitive Shortcode Generator Tons of unique shortcodes Powerful options for all elements Usable in both… Continue reading Salient – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – 4363266
A Closer Look at the Best UX and UI Tools and Apps
There are various ways to build a prototype, and a prototype can be used as a measure of design progress or to test final result. In most instances, a web designer goal is to create a high-fidelity prototype has the look and feel of the end product, and is also capable of supporting team collaboration… Continue reading A Closer Look at the Best UX and UI Tools and Apps
How to Adopt Model View Presenter on Android
In the previous tutorial, we talked about the Model View Presenter pattern, how it is applied on Android, and what its most important advantages are. In this tutorial, we explore the Model View Presenter pattern in more detail by implementing it in an Android application. In this tutorial: we build a simple application using the MVP… Continue reading How to Adopt Model View Presenter on Android
HTML5 Fundamentals
HTML5 is huge at the moment. Even my grandparents have heard of it! In step-by-step fashion, we’re going to dig into this new technology, including the various new HTML tags, feature detection, and working with a couple of the new JavaScript APIs. Are you ready? https://youtu.be/OdkH1Ue0iQ4 https://youtu.be/VuW2Qztht34 https://youtu.be/FqLeyfzJS5I https://youtu.be/Nonz4M3lJ7M https://youtu.be/JdzfrQMyip4 https://youtu.be/9ccmiVNLXFE https://youtu.be/WTH06GqotTA
How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API
The first post in this series laid the groundwork for understanding taxonomies, terms, and their relationship within the context of WordPress. If you haven’t read it yet and you’re brand new to WordPress development, then I highly recommend reading through it as this post is going to build on top of everything covered in that… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API
How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
Throughout this series, we’ve looked at a number of the metadata APIs that are offered by WordPress. This includes the Post Meta API and the User Meta API. Today, we’re going to be rounding out the series by looking at the WordPress Comment Meta API. Note that this is that the final metadata API WordPress… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
How to Run Your Application on a Physical Device
Most Android phones and tablets can be connected to a computer using a USB cable. However, by default, the USB connection established between an Android device and a computer is limited to file transfer only. Therefore, if you want to use your device for Android application development, you have to make a few configuration changes… Continue reading How to Run Your Application on a Physical Device
How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?
According to the most statistics that are recent on w3techs.com, significantly more than 89percent of sites presently utilize JavaScript as a client-side program writing language. As a cross-platform and programming that is lightweight, JavaScript makes it easier for programmers to build responsive websites and web applications that work with seamlessly with popular web browsers, operating… Continue reading How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?
How to Work With WordPress User Metadata
In the previous article, we discussed working with post metadata in WordPress using the provided APIs. We also covered a variety of tools, the ideas of security, and what would be required in order to set up the environment in which to work with the code that would be provided throughout the tutorial. If you… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress User Metadata
10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
Fashion Patterns From clothes to accessories, fashion illustrations have a long history as a visual reference for a designer’s concepts or current fashion trends. What makes a good fashion illustration, though? With help from content from Envato Market, let’s count down 10 top tips for creating great fashion illustrations to better your own sense of… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
10 Stunning Ionic Templates
Ionic is a popular framework for creating modern, hybrid, mobile applications, using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Ionic is powered by AngularJS and Apache Cordova. Because developers can use technologies they are already familiar with (JavaScript, HTML, and CSS), the learning curve isn’t that steep. CodeCanyon offers a wide range of application templates to kickstart your Ionic development. In… Continue reading 10 Stunning Ionic Templates
Multipurpose Selection of 20 Free & Premium HTML Templates
Ready-made HTML templates are a common choice of non-tech savvies who want to get their sites up and running promptly. You can avoid browser compatibility issues, problems with indexation by search engines, and coding mess. Just add your content, edit the design a little, and voila. Your web resource is ready to promote your business… Continue reading Multipurpose Selection of 20 Free & Premium HTML Templates
How to Work With WordPress Post Metadata
In the first post in this series, I gave an overview of all of the various types of metadata offered by WordPress, where it’s kept, and what we’re going to be covering throughout this series. Further, I defined what metadata is; its role within WordPress, and how it’s relevant to us as developers. But the… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Post Metadata
Editing Images in CSS: Combining Techniques
In last two tutorials of this series, we have discussed how filters and blend modes can completely change the appearance of images. In this tutorial, I will cover the basics of editing images by using both these properties together. The Basics of Layering Image Effects With CSS Any non-primitive image editing usually requires more than… Continue reading Editing Images in CSS: Combining Techniques
Free Download : Colored Line Icons (SVG, PNG)
This is a complete pack that includes an amazing variety of Colored Line Icons.The set contains 30 colored line icons in pastel tones for your next design project. The icons come in vector format (SVG) and PNGs of various sizes.The icons of this set have a clean line and a glowy, playful look. A bright… Continue reading Free Download : Colored Line Icons (SVG, PNG)
20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources
As a developer, your design skills may not be that great. But you want your applications to look great. Right? In this quick tip, I list 20 graphic resources for iOS you can find on GraphicRiver. Not only will they save you time, they will make your applications look great. 1. Application Icons The application… Continue reading 20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources
CSS Flexbox Toolbox – Learning Guides, Tools & Frameworks
Flexbox is an advanced method of more efficiently using space amongst items of a CSS container. While its theory can seen a bit complicated and difficult to master, thankfully the web is chock-full of great opportunities to learn. We’ve compiled a collection of some of the best resources out there to help you learn more… Continue reading CSS Flexbox Toolbox – Learning Guides, Tools & Frameworks
NextEvent – Conference & Event HTML Template
NextEvent is a library for Conference & Events with predefined web elements which helps you to build your own site. These theme is suitable for conference, convention, event, exhibition, landing, lecture, meeting, political, seminar, summit, webinar etc. NextEvent theme has a fully responsive layout. It fits perfectly on various displays and resolutions from regular desktop… Continue reading NextEvent – Conference & Event HTML Template
How To Choose Colors For Websites
Color schemes Although I will be criticized for skipping the basics, it is better to skip writing about why RGB is for web and CMYK is for print and other similar notions. Instead, I will jump directly to things that not everyone knows. For example, color schemes. In color theory, a color scheme is the… Continue reading How To Choose Colors For Websites