Core Data is Apple's data storage framework: it's powerful, built-in,
and can integrate with iCloud. Discover all of Core Data's powerful
capabilities, learn fundamental principles including thread and memory
management, and add Core Data to both your iOS and OS X projects. All
examples in this edition are based on Objective-C and are up-to-date for
the latest versions of OS X El Capitan and iOS 9.
Core Data expert Marcus Zarra walks you through a fully developed
application based around the Core Data APIs. You'll build on this
application throughout the book, learning key Core Data principles such
as NSPredicate, NSFetchRequest, thread management, and memory
management.
Start with the basics of Core Data and learn how to use it to develop
your application. Then delve deep into the API details. Explore how to
get Core Data integrated into your application properly, and work with
this flexible API to create convenience methods to improve your
application's maintainability. Reduce your migration difficulties,
integrate your Core Data app with iCloud and Watch Kit, and use Core
Data in a queue-based environment. By the end of the book, you'll have
built a full-featured application, gained a complete understanding of
Core Data, and learned how to integrate your application into the
iPhone/iPad platform.
This third edition updates all examples for OS X El Capitan and iOS 9,
and gets you up to speed on changes in multithreading and batch
processing. There's a new chapter on efficiently importing data from a
network location, and a new discussion of how best to pre-load data into
your application.
What You Need:
Mac OS X El Capitan and iOS 9 and a basic working knowledge of
Objective-C
