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Core Data iOS Essentials

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Core Data iOS Essentials

Overview of this book

Core Data is the essential ingredient in data driven iOS apps. It's used for storing, retrieving, and manipulating application data in databases, XML, and binary formats. It's an essential component for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad apps.Core Data Essentials provides a clear, readable guide to the most useful aspects of Core Data. Built around a realistic example app, the book showcases the most important aspects of Core Data development in the context of a complete, functioning app written in Objective C.The book starts with a tour of how the app works. Then you'll see how to easily display data using the Table View. You'll learn how to develop an appropriate data model that fits the needs of your app, then implement that model as updatable data objects. You'll see how to update data and build relationships between objects and learn how Core Data can work with search, and how to provide your users with friendly data editing features.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Core Data iOS Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Appendix

Splitting the task into two modules


To make it easier for us to understand the procedure of maintaining the customer's information, which consists of fields such as name, emailid, and contactno, we split this task into two modules:

  • Module to save and delete customer name (that is, instead of dealing with all the three fields (name, emailid, and contactno) together, we will first learn how to handle a single field, that is, name of the customer

  • Module to save, display, and delete the complete information of the customer, that is, name, emailid, and contactno

This means that we will first learn how to handle a single attribute: customer's name. When we properly understand the procedure of saving and deleting a customer's name, we will go ahead with developing a second module that stores complete information of the customer; that includes name, e-mail ID, contact number, and so on.