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Learning ibeacon

By : Craig Gilchrist
Book Image

Learning ibeacon

By: Craig Gilchrist

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning iBeacon
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building our app


Let's get started with building our "important stuff" app. We'll be using core data to store a list of our important stuff, and luckily, Apple has provided a very nice template, which should give us a head start. Consider the following steps:

  1. Fire up Xcode and create a new project. This time, choose Master-Detail Application as your project template and call the project My Important Stuff. Be absolutely sure to check the Use Core Data option as this tutorial heavily relies on it.

  2. We're going to need CoreLocation; so, add that to the linked frameworks and libraries as we've done in previous chapters.

Beginning the app with a database schema

Let's start with the database required to support the app. We'll need to store all of our beacons within the local database so that our location manager knows what's missing. We'll also need to remove any of the default entities that the template has created so that we don't cloud up our nice clean code. Consider the following steps:

  1. Open up...