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Which tools do you need as a developer? This part of our Coding Fundamentals section introduces you to some essential coding tools and explains how to use them.

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Continuous Delivery With fastlane for iOS

Tutorial • Intermediate

fastlane is a toolchain that makes distributing apps extremely easy, allowing developers to focus on their apps and let the tooling take on the tasks of...

Doron Katz • 28 Mar 2018
Tools

Faster Logins With Password AutoFill in iOS 11

Tutorial • Beginner

Learn how to speed up the login process and improve user retention with Password AutoFill, a new API introduced in iOS 11.

Patrick Balestra • 30 Jun 2017
Tools

Swift From Scratch: Optionals and Control Flow

Tutorial • Beginner

In the previous articles, you learned some of the basic concepts of the Swift programming language. If you've programmed before, I'm sure you saw a few...

Bart Jacobs • 23 Feb 2017
Ruby on Rails

Rake 101

Tutorial • Beginner

This article explains the basics of Rake. It’s a super popular build tool that is written in Ruby. It offers a lot of flexibility and is used to manage all...

Ed Wassermann • 7 Jul 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: How to Use Resources In an Application

Tutorial • Beginner

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...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 29 Jun 2016
Tools

How to Work With Geofences on Android

Tutorial • Intermediate

Location aware resources allow your application to interact with the physical world and they are ideal for increasing user engagement. Although many mobile...

Tin Megali • 27 Jun 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: Understanding Adapters and Adapter Views

Tutorial • Beginner

Adapter views are so ubiquitous that you'd have a hard time finding a popular Android app that doesn't use them. Every time you see an Android app display...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 15 Jun 2016
Tools

What's New in Android Studio 2.2?

Tutorial • Beginner

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...

Jessica Thornsby • 8 Jun 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: Connecting Activities and Applications

Tutorial • Beginner

Before you start creating complex applications with dozens of activities, and thus screens, you need to understand how to switch from one activity to...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 1 Jun 2016
Security

Build a Private Dropbox With Time Machine Backup Using BitTorrent Sync

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn to construct an ideal Dropbox alternative with BitTorrent's ever improving Sync. Build a solid "cloud" drive accessible anywhere and backed by Apple...

Jeff Reifman • 30 May 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: Activities and Fragments

Tutorial • Beginner

When a user interacts with an app on an Android device, they are almost always interacting with an Activity. After Google released the Honeycomb version of...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 25 May 2016
Tools

How to Enable Deep Links on Android

Tutorial • Beginner

Android deep links open a specific page within an app and optionally pass data to it. Developers may find deep links particularly useful for actions, such as...

Matthew Kim • 27 Apr 2016

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